How Healthwatch addresses Health inequalities
Healthwatch has worked with various groups to ensure a more equal experience for all local residents. Due to our continued commitment, we were invited to share evidence with a strategic effort called Turning the Tide.
Turning the tide
The Kent and Medway Turning the Tide Oversight Board (TTOB) brings key partner agencies together to ensure people from minority ethnic backgrounds have the same likelihood of good health and wellbeing as people from White British backgrounds, and to reduce inequalities in how health and social care is provided.
For more on what insights we shared and our work with seldom heard voices CLICK HERE
Reducing inequalities by guiding the health and social care workforce
The Turning the Tide oversight board includes the aim;' To reduce inequalities in recruitment, retention and development of staff in the health and social care workforce’.
The graphic above shows how our stakeholder initiative offered Healthwatch an opportunity to hear from a new mother. Their experience became a case study for future midwifery training.
Our contribution of stories like this and our broader work contributing to the Allied Healthcare Professionals training and upcoming work within care homes shows how we listen to patient voice and improve the workforce guidance.
The above outcome is just one among many ways Healthwatch has listened, acted and influenced the system. Click here for full You Said We Did reports with more experiences like the above.
