This report is in partnership with the the Wyre and Rural Extended Neighbourhood Primary Care Network.
We held conversations with the local community around what was working well in terms of their own personal health and wellbeing, and where they felt improvements could be made to live healthy happy lives for both them and their families.
A word from WREN PCN4
‘We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our patients and practice teams for supporting the recent engagement undertaken by Healthwatch Lancashire to inform WREN Primary Care Network what is important to you and what can help you live a healthy and happier life.
We would also like to thank the Healthwatch Lancashire team for their support in facilitating this engagement.’
To ensure that the population are living happy and healthy lives, WREN PCN set out to investigate barriers that may impact a person’s health and wellbeing.
By WREN PCN investigating these barriers, the PCN can work towards ensuring that there are preventative measures and targeted interventions in place Healthwatch Lancashire facilitated pop-ups within local communities, attended community groups and ran an online survey to gather feedback from local people about their health and wellbeing.
Feedback revealed four key themes:
- The need for a lifestyle and preventative holistic approach including
healthy eating, exercise, quit smoking etc. - The need for better access to health and wellbeing services including GPs, dentists, physiotherapists etc. as well as shorter waiting times for scans, diagnosis and treatment from external services
- Better access to mental health support and shorter waiting times
- More community inclusion to reduce social isolation/loneliness as well as more peer led community support.
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Fully agree with the report, the only thing I would mention is that finding the need of a suffering individual and what stimulates them the most. In my experience this was key,