Wandworth Local Health and Care Plan - October 2019

41 Over 160 people attended the event– including around 50 local people who had been specifically recruited to represent the diverse community in Wandsworth and who had never worked with us before. We worked with a specialist organisation to reach out to a representative cross section of the community using online advertising and on-street recruitment. As a result, we heard from a range of people we wouldn’t ordinarily have reached including from those in deprived communities, young adults and people from multicultural backgrounds. There was great energy and fresh ideas in the room. It was clear that people were passionate about health and care in our borough and wanted to support us. We made a video of the event which captured the feeling of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOldN0IWrQM The following provides a snapshot from the day. Using local insight to inform our early thinking Wandsworth’s health and care partners considered views of local people gathered over the last year including what we learnt through our commissioning intentions engagement work undertaken in Summer/Autumn 2018. This shaped our thinking as we developed our early ideas about what health and care priorities for Wandsworth would look like. This included hearing from communities and groups who do not always feel their voice is heard or may face specific barriers to involvement, for example people who self-identify as LGBTQ+, people disabled by sensory, perceptual, physical and emotional processing difficulties (Learning Disabled), people who care for others whether paid or unpaid and BAME communities. We used feedback from local people to refine our early ideas into a set of draft priorities that were presented at our deliberative event in November 2018. Testing our early thinking and draft priorities In November 2018, we held an engagement event for local people, health and care staff, and representatives from community organisations. We talked about the kinds of things which no single organisation can achieve alone and how organisations could work better together. We also shared what people had already told us about what they want from local services. Discussions focused on: • Childhood obesity • Children and young people’s mental health • Risky behaviours • Integration of our approach to physical and mental health • Diabetes • Dementia • Health and social care integration • Isolation