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Improving and Empowering Patient and Public Engagement in Healthcare

Date & Time


Tuesday 28th January, 2025 09:30 AM - 15:15 PM

Venue


Online

CPD Certified

Availability


Available

Registration


Overview

Engaging with patients and the wider community, helps healthcare professionals deliver more effective care, improve patient satisfaction and minimises the risk of complaints.

This practical training will help enhance the quality of healthcare services by offering expert guidance on effectively engaging with patients as well as drawing on the valuable insights and experiences of patients and communities.

Join delegates across the healthcare sector at our Improving and Empowering Patient and Public Engagement online training course to gain strategies that improve the quality of service delivery, which is both integrated and people-centred.

Leave the day with the expertise to increase levels of patient engagement to directly improve patient satisfaction and quality of care.


Learning Objectives

  • Receive guidance on involving people and communities to meet your public involvement legal duties

  • Learn how to embed the voices of patients, carers, families, and communities from the very beginning

  • Gain methods to strengthen inclusive local engagement and reduce health inequalities

  • Ensure your healthcare services are designed based on representative local needs

  • Integrate a co-production approach to help improve patient outcomes


Lead Trainer: Don Redding

Patient Engagement Expert


 

Agenda

9:30 am

Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Training Objectives


09:45 am

Building Relationships and Engagement with Communities

 

Explore the benefits of building partnerships with people and communities:

  • Why we need to engage and work in partnership

  • Levels of engagement and participation


Don Redding, Patient Engagement Expert – CONFIRMED


10:15 am

 

Practical Guidance on Working in Partnership with People and Communities

  • Learn the key principles for working with people and communities

  • Finding the right methods and approach, exploring different ways of working in collaboration and developing long lasting relationships with people and communities

  • How to best utilise insights from service users, ensuring change is based on the needs and experiences of local populations

  • Collaborative working with local authorities, social care providers, voluntary, and community sectors to signpost community need


Don Redding, Patient Engagement Expert – CONFIRMED


11:10 am

Morning Break


11:25 am

 

Discussion Session: Evaluating Approaches to Engagement

This session explores ideas that can engage patients, families, and carers in their own health and wellbeing, and provides an opportunity to consider other innovative strategies.

Discuss with peers and the expert trainer key approaches to engagement, including:

  • Shared decision making

  • Personalised care and support planning

  • Social prescribing

  • Self-management

  • Education and individual information-sharing with patients, carers, and families


Don Redding, Patient Engagement Expert – CONFIRMED


11:50 am

Workshop: Effectively Hearing and Listening to ‘Missing Voices’

 
  • Explore the barriers to engagement and the impact of missing voices

  • How to better listen and engage with the unique needs of diverse communities

  • Strategies for early engagement, ensuring marginalised groups understand how their engagement, experience, and contributions can make a difference

  • Understand how all staff can engage with ethnically diverse communities in an equitable and inclusive way


12:50 pm

Lunch


1:50 pm

 

Workshop: Developing Patient Leadership Capability

  • Breaking down learnings and recommendations from the ‘NHS Building Blocks to Developing Patient Leadership’ guidance, comparing this against your current strategy 

  • What does strong, collaborative working with patient leaders to influence decision making at a strategic level look like?

  • The importance of listening to patient stories

  • Advice on building trusted and meaningful relationships with patient leaders and how to invest your time and resources efficiently


Don Redding, Patient Engagement Expert – CONFIRMED


2:30 pm

Case Study:  Co-Production Session

 
  • Looking at Co-production from the patient perspective –

  • What is co-production is?

  • What are the considerations and challenges from a patient angle?


Jessica Mansel, Senior Engagement Officer, MSS Society  – Invited


3:20 pm

 

Summary and Key Takeaways

In this final interactive session, our expert trainer will summarise the sessions, helping you recap on all you have learnt through the day, and ensuring tangible takeaways for you to implement in your healthcare service. You will have the opportunity to ask any final questions and share comments, as well as determine your next steps.


3:40 pm

Training Close

*Programme subject to change

 

Pricing

Health & Social Care
£245 + VAT

Public Sector
£345 + VAT

Private Sector
£445 + VAT

 
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