Really proud to share our latest annual report. Full of impact and, boy, our team’s set a high bar for what comes next.

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I didn’t bother reading the detailed citations but just skimming 19 of these 20 names cheered me up, despite the other one.

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We do what it says on the tin👇. Really proud of our team 👏. #Impact.

Wow, whole new section just for political policy documents…

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9/9 …critically important about the Healthwatch role. The people whose voices most need to be heard are the least likely to have trusting relationships with the organisations they’re now being asked to accept as their sole means of sharing their experiences.

8/9 …Health and Wellbeing Boards set out in the 10-Year Plan provides a possible mechanism to join some of this back up, but why plan to break something and then glue it partially back together? Secondly, the report simply doesn’t address one of the things that’s most….

7/9 …of local Healthwatch will work against the integration of services. That span across both NHS and social care services mirrors the way people live their lives and experience care - unlike the artificial distinction being reintroduced. The continuing role for….

6/9 …at place level. I also think the remit for this review and its fairly top-down view of the system have led to a failure to consider two key strategic issues around which the planned changes will create problems. Firstly, separating the health and social care functions….

5/9 …the law will end up looking more like the flat and bald language in the plan or more like the picture Dr Dash has painted of bringing integrated care board and provider engagement functions together with patient participation groups and local Healthwatch functions….

4/9 …this agenda. This report says a bit more than the 10-Year Plan about how that might be achieved. While I’m still not convinced that the intended approach will have the desired effects in the real world rather than in schematic theory, the key question now is whether….

3/9 I do understand the overall logic applied across the whole review, within the constraints of its terms of reference, and the aspiration, carried into the 10-Year Plan, to make health and social care policymakers, commissioners and providers responsible and accountable for….

2/9 I’m glad to see that the report cites examples of local and national Healthwatch impact, makes clear how local Healthwatch have been inconsistently and inadequately resourced and talks about building on the deep advocacy expertise that’s been developed.

🧵 Today @DHSCgovuk has published Dr Penny Dash’s report on patient safety organisations, which has driven a number of structural changes set out in the 10-Year Health Plan: 1/9.

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Interesting discussion on workforce in the replies👇.

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