Feature articles with Sheffield Flourish
When asked which activities they wanted to do more, 68% of 223 people who spoke to us said time in nature and 58% of 223 people said dancing. We are keen to find out how to make both these and other activities more accessible.
Read Rob’s article in full here.
Sheffield Flourish also invited the community to send in their questions to be answered by Healthwatch Sheffield
A member of our community asks; Who do I speak to when the problem isn’t with an actual service, but it’s actually that the service doesn’t exist?!
You can speak to Healthwatch Sheffield – in fact we rely on hearing about your experiences of services, your ideas for what service should exist and your ideas about how local people should be involved.
In this case, we worked with Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust and the NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to help find a solution.
Read the full response here.
If we feel like we need to understand an issue better, we might do some engagement of our own, to find out what a range of people think, talk to local voluntary sector organisations like Flourish to find out what they’re hearing, and look into what research already exists.
We may write a briefing or if necessary, a report. When we write a report, we include recommendations that providers and commissioners are required to respond to within 20 working days. We put all the responses on our website so that people can see how the recommendations have been considered, and let us know if they think things have changed for the better, worse, or stayed the same.
