NHS Long Term Plan Focus Group Engagement
The report
The Lancashire and South Integrated Care System (ICS) wanted to ensure that the needs of people were being addressed by recent developments within the healthcare system.
The local Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) were asked to identify priority groups.
Local Healthwatch were asked to deliver a set of focus groups which targeted the assigned priority groups.
This report is based on the feedback from three focus groups that West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group identified as priority groups.
What happened
West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group wanted to find out more about the things that make a difference to older people in terms of their health and wellbeing, particularly concerning the wider determinant of health.
The main focus group activities took place in March 2020.
Group members were asked for their views on:
- The things they do to help them or might help them to feel happier or improve their life? What, if anything, stops them
- What causes them most concern within their life
- Their suggestions of changes they would like that would make a positive difference to their health and wellbeing
- What they would like the West Lancashire partnership to focus on to make a positive difference to their life
The outcome
Several themes arose in response to the questions posed, including:
- Attending groups was very important for people’s health and wellbeing.
- More availability and easier access to GP services is needed.
- Improvements are required to medication reviews, including more opportunities to discuss and review medication.
- Improvement to transport systems is imperative.
- Improvements are required to town planning and safety.
- More person centred and useful advice for dealing with health conditions.
Read the report
Find out more about this engagement, a full breakdown of what we heard and what we did with the info by reading the full report here.