South West London CCG Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21

regularly in our Healthwatch Liaison meetings about upcoming projects. • Over this last year we have worked in partnership, reaching over 600 people to understand how telephone and video appointments are working. You can read the Wandsworth experiences of digital and telephone health and care appointments report. This year, we have supported assembly topics, focussed on PPI and addressing health inequalities. • The Thinking Partners Group, chaired by Dr Sian Job, works collaboratively with NHS Wandsworth to assure us in relation to our approaches to addressing health inequalities. It also offers members the opportunity to network and deepen their understanding of how to work together. Thinking Partners supports our aims to continually improve our approach to promoting equality - ensuring equality and diversity is factored into decision-making. • The Patient and Public Involvement Reference Group (PPIRG), chaired by Sarah Rackham, ensures that the voice of the Wandsworth community is at the heart of our commissioning. The current membership includes representatives from the voluntary sector, community partners and members of PPG groups. Each partner organisation or network has links right across the community, not limited to Wandsworth but also transcending geographical boundaries to neighbouring boroughs, which is important as many of our patients travel from other parts of London. • Wandsworth Community Grant Scheme awarded 12 grants to community and grassroots organisations to address digital exclusion and the reduce inequalities in access to health and wellbeing support during the pandemic. You can read a summary of the projects on our website www.swlondonccg.nhs.uk • Together with Wandsworth Council we continue to jointly commission the Wandsworth Voluntary Sector Coordination Service, which serves to support and build the capacity of voluntary organisations and community groups in Wandsworth to connect, collaborate and communicate both with each other and the local health and social care system to work together to promote health equality. Kingston and Richmond • The Kingston and Richmond communications and engagement group brings together communications and engagement professionals working in both boroughs across the NHS, councils, Healthwatch and the voluntary sector. The group which meets monthly to work on local joint projects, share knowledge, map stakeholders and coordinate plans for involving local people. Our focus this year has been to gather local population and communities’ Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21 | 83