Mental health and dementia key issues at third Broxtowe Together event

The third in the series of Broxtowe Together events took place on Thursday 14 July on Zoom. It was attended by 71 people who live or work across the Nottingham West Primary Care Network area and was a very positive event which showcased all the work done in Broxtowe across the community in the last 12 months. There was even a video presentation from local actress and Line of Duty star Vicky McClure!

After the presentations, attendees were put into smaller breakout rooms which focused on young people and mental health in the first session and dementia in the second session.

There were lots of fantastic observations and innovative ideas for change, so look out for more information in upcoming edition of South Notts PBP news.

We also said a sad goodbye to Nottingham West Clinical Director Tim Heywood, who is retiring from the NHS in September 2022. Tim said: “The two and a half years I have been Clinical Director have been exciting, humbling and completely changed my perception of what a care service can be. The people I have met, the enthusiasm, the skills, the drive and compassion they have to look after citizens in a way that I believe is the correct way is incredible. I will miss it greatly.”

You can see the full event here: https://youtu.be/FLAgN5t9Auk

South Notts Community Voices event – young people

As a Place-Based Partnership, we’re really keen to hear what’s important to young people to help them keep healthy and well so we worked with our District and Borough Youth Council members to design an event for young people.

So on Saturday 2 July we held our very first Community Voices engagement event for young people at Nottingham Arena, with all the young people who joined us to share their views being treated to an ice skating session with their parents at the close of the event.

Pictures of young people at the Community Voices event
Some of the young people who joined us at our Community Voices event at Nottingham Arena

It was a really fun, action-packed morning with lots of discussion about what the young people loved about the area they live in terms of health and wellbeing opportunities (tops) and what they didn’t like (pants). You can see the washing line of feedback in the pictures above.

We also talked about how they keep healthy and mentally well and what support needed to be available. Finally they had to draw their ideal place (blindfolded!) which certainly made for some interesting presentations.

Look out for the more, including feedback and evaluation in an upcoming newsletter.