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Join our diabetes lived experience expert reference group
Do you, or someone you care for, have type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, or gestational diabetes?
Or perhaps you have a family history of diabetes and want to understand more about diabetes services?
We are looking for local people across Cornwall and Isles of Scilly with lived experience of diabetes and diabetes services, to provide feedback and ideas to help us shape the way we provide diabetes care in the future.
What’s involved?
We want to form a group of people with lived experience of diabetes, so we can ask for your help to provide feedback on current and shape future services.
If you join our group, there will be different ways for you to get involved and have your say, with both online / virtual and in-person opportunities available. This could include taking part in surveys, giving feedback in a group discussion to being involved in work to ‘design’ future services alongside our staff.
You will be able to get involved in ways that suit you, and to share your feedback on matters that are most important to you.
Register your interest
Please email the engagement team to register your interest.
New opportunities for 2024
Summer festival of wellbeing
We are working together with lots of local organisations to run a health and wellbeing campaign called ‘Healthier Together’ providing advice and information about how you can make small changes in your daily life that will have a big impact on your future health and wellbeing.
Come along to our free Summer Wellbeing festivals
As part of our campaign, we’re running free Summer Wellbeing Festivals over the summer, so why not attend one happening close to you and come and say hello as we are running our annual community conversation and asking for your views on using community pharmacy and mental health services.
These free events include activities, taster sessions and health checks from the NHS at:
- Redruth Rugby Club and Elms
Saturday 3 August - Park House Centre, Bude
Saturday 3 August - Humphrey Davy School & Trelya, Penzance
Friday 9 August - Poltair Park, St Austell
Saturday 17 August - Town Hall, Launceston
Saturday 17 August - Basset Centre, Camborne
Saturday 14 September 2024 - Hayle Recreation Ground, Hayle
Saturday 14 September 2024 - Newquay Orchard
Saturday 21 September
We look forward to seeing you there!
To find out more about the events visit the Heathy Cornwall Healthier Together page.
Share for better care
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) wants to know more about your experiences of health and social care. The CQC uses your feedback to help improve care for everyone. Fill in the confidential feedback form and tell them about your care .
Our commitment to working with people and communities
We are committed to working in partnership with the people of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to shape the services we commission and provide. We will also work closely with our partners in the NHS, local authorities and the voluntary sector.
You can find out how we plan to inform, involve and engage local people in health and care services by reading our citizen engagement strategy and guidance. We also provide a summary version.
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has a very diverse population. We are keen to make sure that our involvement is inclusive and will seek out, encourage and welcome participation from people from diverse backgrounds and of all ages.
In working with others, we will ensure we:
- involve people as early as possible in the decision-making process and before any decisions are made.
- provide good information about the subject in question in a way that is understandable and easy to get.
- be open and clear about what is (and is not) possible.
- provide practical support where possible when people are asked to get involved, so that they can take part, for example using sign language interpreters.
- tell people afterwards how their involvement has made a difference.
Demonstrating impact
We use the STAR method (Sharing-Task-Action-Result) method of recording what we and others do, as a result of feedback from the public and our engagement team report this to our Board. As an Integrated Care System, we are currently looking at adopting one single way of demonstrating what changes we make as a result of receiving feedback and making this available on one webpage.
Planning for the year ahead
We have just started to plan the year ahead. On our horizon are the following events:
- Annual Conversation involving children and young people, hosted by Cornwall Council
- Royal Cornwall Show
- Cornwall Pride
We also plan to attend smaller more local events such as diabetes super clinics and local cancer support groups.
If you would like the team to visit an event or an activity near you or would like to be kept informed in upcoming engagement opportunities, please contact our communications and engagement team.
Expert reference groups and other ways to be involved
There are many different ways you can become involved in shaping health and care services in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly. These include:
- Subscribing to our Cornwall Together Bulletin to access more engagement opportunities.
- Joining your GP practice’s Patient Participation Group. – find out details on your GP surgery website
- Attending your local Community Area Partnership run by Cornwall Council
- Becoming a member of your local Healthwatch.
- Enrolling onto the Patient Leader Programme at:
- Putting yourself forward for membership of an Expert Reference Group of people with lived experience of a particular health condition or with a particular interest in a specific area of healthcare.
Coming soon
We are currently developing some new ways for local people to get involved and will be advertising these shortly. This includes being a member of our digital engagement panel and joining an Expert Reference Group of people with lived experience of a particular health condition or with a particular interest in a specific area of healthcare.
Page last reviewed: 28 June 2024