One Gloucestershire People's Panel

One Gloucestershire People’s Panel

“We want to build the relationships needed to deliver better health and care across Gloucestershire so we can support people and communities to improve their lives alongside them.” Mary Hutton, Chief Executive, NHS Gloucestershire

We know we can rely upon very active ‘self-selecting’ people who are prepared, willing and able to take up the many opportunities we currently offer to have their say. What we identified is that we can do more to ensure that we hear the voices of individuals who do not, or cannot, easily tell us what matters to them.

So we asked people: How do you want to be involved? One of the top three ways people said they would like to get involved was through completing surveys… and in response the One Gloucestershire People’s Panel was born!

We recruited a group of just over 1000 local residents to join the new Panel. The people recruited are representative of the Gloucestershire population of approximately 650,000 residents; and it includes individuals who live in priority areas of the county; where people experience greater health inequalities than elsewhere in Gloucestershire or England.

The Panellists’ anonymous feedback is used at a county and a more local level to shape health and care services and support.

• The first survey focussed on: Digital & Information Sharing; Virtual Wards and NHS 111
• The second survey focusses on: Non-medical support for health and wellbeing

The People's Panel Reports are available in the One Gloucestershire People's Panel information on the right of this page