IMPORTANT INFORMATION

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NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group has been legally dissolved and from 1 July 2022 has been replaced by a new organisation: NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (SY ICB). NHS South Yorkshire ICB is now responsible for commissioning and funding of health and care services locally. Please go to our new website www.southyorkshire.icb.nhs.uk for information about the work of NHS South Yorkshire ICB and details about how to contact us.

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How we involve people

Communications and Engagement Strategy

Our Communications and Engagement Strategy sets out the principles we follow when engaging with the public, and the key ways we involve local people in our decision making.

We aim to deliver high quality engagement at all times. Our principles set out what this will look and feel like.

  • We will engage people early on in our decision making processes
  • Involve the public in the governance of the CCG
  • Prior to starting engagement activity, we’ll review existing sources of insight about patient and public views and experiences, and bridge any gaps
  • Engagement will be an ongoing process, not a one off exercise
  • We will be clear and concise, and all engagement will have a purpose
  • Engagement will be representative. We will take time to involve hard to reach groups and the most vulnerable people. We will use accessible formats and ensure equality of opportunity 7
  • We will go out to external groups; we will not depend on them coming to us
  • We will work with our partners to avoid duplication and overload for the public
  • We will meet our responsibilities under the Equalities Act, 2010 and statutory responsibilities under section 14Z2 including Gunning principles
  • Sheffield CCG will listen and hear, what people tell us and we will feedback – so people will understand the impact of their views
  • Sheffield CCG will recognise and record people’s contributions
  • We will recognise the difference between individual and collective engagement.

You can find our Communications and Engagement Strategy here.

 

Volunteering

Appropriately supporting local people to have their say and genuinely influence our commissioning decisions is a priority for us.

We believe that our values and behaviours speak louder than words and have developed a Volunteering Policy to ensure staff offer consistent and appropriate support to individuals who help our work. This includes reimbursement of out of pocket expenses tailored to an individual’s circumstances, but as standard for travel, caring responsibilities and subsistence costs.

We make sure that volunteers have the appropriate level of training and knowledge required to undertake any tasks they are involved in. Examples of this support include:

  • We have benefited from having people involved in choosing the providers of services that we buy. All participants receive a briefing and training session beforehand on the expectations of them and introducing the technical aspects of the work.
  • The public voice representatives on our Strategic Public Engagement Experience Equality Committee receive a full induction, regular supervisions and access to training and development opportunities  throughout their two-year term. 

You can find our Volunteering Policy here.

We involve volunteers who give their time to multiple organisations in the city as part of our partnership responsibilities. It is important to ensure that those people are appropriately trained, supported and reimbursed. Examples of these roles include our Autism Partnership Board (in conjunction with the Local Authority), our Musculoskeletal ambassadors (in conjunction with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals) and Dance to Health volunteers (in conjunction with voluntary organisations).

If you are interested in volunteering with the CCG, please contact us on SHECCG.engagementactivity@nhs.net or 0114 305 4609 to find out more.

 

Supporting our staff to involve people

We have invested in staff training to raise awareness of the organisation's legal duties around public involvement and equality. In 2019/20 we commissioned the Consultation Institute to provide equality and consultation master classes to our Primary Care Commissioning Committee, Strategic Public Engagement Experience and Equality Committee, GP practice managers and commissioning managers. This training has helped our organisation to be more aware of the requirements and benefits of involving people in our work.

A public involvement toolkit is available to support our staff to involve local people in their work. 

The public involvement toolkit can be found here.

We have recently introduced a series of learning sessions for our staff based around the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010. Through these sessions we invite a member of the public or staff member with a protected characteristic to discuss their experience of receiving services and the challenges and barriers they have faced. This is bringing a great insight into the communities we serve and how we can work towards reducing the health inequalities that exist across Sheffield.

All new staff receive a formal induction which includes a session on all disciplines that the organisation is involved with, including involvement and equality.

A number of our staff have also attended NHS England's '10 steps to even better public engagement' training sessions. The slides from this training can be found here.

NHS England have produced a range of helpful bite sized guides to carrying out effective patient and public involvement. You can find them here.

 

NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group

Headquarters
722 Prince of Wales Road
Sheffield
S9 4EU

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