Seeing Through the Patient’s Eyes – Increasing Patient Involvement in Optometry

School of Health Sciences Community Engagement Seminar

 

Seeing Through the Patient’s Eyes – Increasing Patient 

Involvement in Optometry

 

The School of Health Sciences at City University London would like to invite you to attend our next Community Engagement Seminar.

 

Date:  Wednesday 24 June 2015

Time:  2.30-3.00pm

Venue:  Room A226, College Building, City University London

 

This seminar will be led by Dr Ahalya Subramanian, Lecturer, in the Division of Optometry and Visual Sciences.

 

Ahalya Subramanian will explore how the Division of Optometry has involved patients in the development of the visual impairment curriculum and teaching on the module.

 

What do patients want Optometry students to know about visual impairment?

 

Why should we involve patients in curriculum development?

 

What are the benefits of involving patients in teaching about the impact of visual impairment?

 

For more information please visit www.city.ac.uk/health

‘My Experiences in the Big Chair’: Service User Experiences of Common Eye Diseases

 

School of Health Sciences Community Engagement Seminar

‘My Experiences in the Big Chair’:  Service User Experiences of Common Eye Diseases

The School of Health Sciences at City University London would like to invite you to attend our next Community Engagement Seminar.

 

Date:  Wednesday 24 June 2015

Time:  2pm-2.30pm

Location:  Room A226, College Building, City University London

 

The seminar will be led by Dr Byki Huntjens, Optometrists and Lecturer in the Division of Optometry and Visual Sciences.  She is involved in teaching multiple clinical modules and co-facilitates the contact lens teaching for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

 

Dr Byki Huntjens has introduced a new series of tutorials designed for UG and PG optometry programme, whereby service users with common eye diseases discuss their everyday experience of the disease, their experiences of the national screening services, and any treatment received.

 

Online eye examination tutorials including short interviews with the service users were prepared, and on separate occasions the service users supported dialogues with small groups of students regarding their everyday experiences coping with the disease.

 

‘By introducting the service user perspective to undergraduate optometry students, I envisage that the improved understanding of the patient perspective will translate into enhanced communication skills and optometric management when students progress to the professional eye clinics in their final year of study.’

 

During the lecture, Dr Byki Huntjens will address her experiences in recruitment of service users, filming and editing, and organizing the ‘Meet the Experts’ events for the students.  Additionally, she will present the feedback results, and discuss future work to this series.

 

For more information please visit www.city.ac.uk/health

 

 

 

Service Users’ and Carers’ Collaboration within Adult Student Nurse Learning

Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances the below seminar has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.

School of Health Sciences Community Engagement Seminar

Service Users’ and Carers’ Collaboration within Adult Student Nurse Learning

 

The School of Health Sciences at City University London would like to invite you to attend our next Community Engagement Seminar.

Date:  Wednesday 24 June 2015

Time:  1pm-2pm

Location:  Room A226, College Building, City University London

The seminar will be led by Melissa Chamney, a Senior Lecturer specilising in nephrology nursing and also the Programme Director for Undergraduate Pre-Registration Adult Nursing and joined the school in August 2004.

The nursing curriculum is based on a commitment to a relationship-centred care where health professionals and students value the relationships that form the context of care, including those of service users and carers.  Within the adult undergraduate nurse programme during the Experiencing Long Term Care, Rehabilitation and Recovery module students have sessions led by service users and carers with long term conditions.

Meeting service users and carers outside clinical environments helps students gain a clearer understanding of how conditions can affect people’s daily lives (Terry 2011).  It provides a focus for students to be aware of the tools and systems available to service users and carers to help them manage their long term condition.  Students can then use these to incorporate into the care of their patients and their family and friends (Expert Patients Programme 2012).

For more information please visit www.city.ac.uk/health

 

Developing a Users & Carers involvement group for My Home Life: what have we learned?

My Home Life Picture

The Quality of Care for Older People research centre hosts My Home Life; a social movement emphasising quality of health, care and management for all those who live, work, visit and die in care  homes.

Date:  Wednesday 24 June 2015 at 3-4pm

Venue:  Room A226, College Building, City University London

It is important to the integrity of health and care services research to include the experiences of service users and carers.  My Home Life within the Quality of Care for Older People research centre at City University London is entering the next phase of its work, sustainability and community engagement, and a dedicated users and carers involvement group is central to this.

Join speakers Professor Julienne Meyer and Dr Anne Laybourne as they reflect on our experiences of developing My Home Life’s Users & Carers Involvement group, present our expectations and report what happened in reality, lessons learned and thoughts for sustaining this group in the future.

 

PPI Workshops back by Popular Demand

A series of patient and public involvement (PPI) workshops

for clinical researchers is back by popular demand.

 The workshops, which are open to researchers working in UCL Partners partnership organisations, are practical and the aim is to build up researchers’ skills effectively involving lay people in the research process from setting research priorities to designing protocols. Workshops will run during February and March 2015 and are graded ‘beginners’ and ‘experienced’. Topics include introduction to PPI, filling in grant forms and the role of the lay person on steering groups and committees. Locations are across central London including UCL, the Royal London, Queen Mary University London and Moorfields.

Please click on this link for further information:

PPI Workshops for Clinical Researchers

Seminar: LCS Service Users Project January 28th

The evaluation of a coordinated approach to service user involvement across

LCS teaching
Date: Wednesday January 28th 2015 Time: 1pm – 2pm

Room: AG01, College Building

 

Working with service users in the education of students who are studying to go into the health and social care sector is a well-established method of training. It is also considered that this is a valuable practice for service users, helping them gain confidence, social skills and improving their communication with others.

This event will present the finding of research looking at the results of service users’ experience of working with students who are training to go into the health and social care sector.

Join us on the 28th January 2015 for an engaging discussion around this topic.

Community Engagement Seminar Series – Jacqueline Davies’ Case Study

Now available on the blog

Jacqueline Davies, Lecturer in the Nursing Division

School of Health Sciences

Case Study on:

Public Health Walks: A Methodology for Taking Students into their Communities of Practice.

 

Jaqueline Davies

City University London students are undertaking public health walks in their communities of practice in the first term of nurse training. On their walks in public spaces students observe and reflect on the healthiness of the community.  Please click on the link below for the full report:

Community Engagement and User Involvement in Teaching and Research Seminar series Jacqueline Davies

 

Seminar: 26th November 2014, 1-2pm

“(Almost) Everything you need to know about identifying, recruiting and supporting patients/service users as collaborators in education and research”

26th November 2014, 1-2pm

A225, College Building, City University London

 

Alan Simpson

Join Professor Alan Simpson Professor of Collaborative Mental Health Nursing in the School of Health Sciences, City University London and Lead for the Centre for Mental Health Research, in exploring how educators and researchers often see the merits of involving patients or service users in their teaching or research studies and are keen to ‘give it a go’ but get waylaid in various worries, concerns and questions. Things like:

“How do I identify and engage suitable people?”

“What can I ask them to do?”

“What if the stress makes them ill?”

“Will the students listen to them?”

“What about training and support?”

During the seminar Professor Simpson will draw on research literature, his experiences and those of colleagues to explore some of these challenges and how best to address them.

Where’s the Patient’s Voice Conference

We were recently forwarded the following information which might be of interest to you:

Dear Colleagues

It is my pleasure to let you know that next year, from 12-14 November 2015, we will be holding the second ‘Where’s the Patient’s Voice in Health Professional Education?’ conference in Vancouver, ten years after our first conference in 2005.

As someone who has recently published in the field of patient/ client /service user involvement in the education of health or social care professionals, we hope that you may be interested in this follow-up conference, to hear about and share what has happened in the past 10 years and lessons learned, and to set directions for the future.

Please click on this link for further information Patients Voice_Save the Date. Please circulate this to any colleagues and patient / service user /community partners who might be interested in attending and help us to get the word out through your networks. We expect to circulate the Call for Abstracts in late November.

Kind regards,

Dr Angela Towle

Co-Director, Division of Health Care Communication

College of Health Disciplines

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, B.C.

Tel: 604-822-8002

angela.towle@ubc.ca

http://www.dhcc.chd.ubc.ca/

Six Innovative Projects to Support Service User Involvement in Healthcare Education

Awards to support innovative approaches to service user involvement in healthcare education and research

Thank you to everyone who submitted their applications to this award scheme. I am very happy to announce that the following six innovative projects to support service user involvement in healthcare education and research in SHS will be funded in partnership with Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD).

The winning proposals are:

  1. Melissa Chamney (Adult Years): Service users’ and carers’ collaboration within adult student nurse learning.
  2. Shashivadan Hirani (Health Services Research and Management): Utilising service user expectations and experiences of mobile assistive technologies to improve service provision training of health and social care professionals.
  3. Byki Huntjens (Optometry and Visual Science): ‘My Experiences in the Big Chair’: Service user experiences of common eye diseases.
  4. Anne Laybourne and Julienne Meyer (Adult Years): My Home Life (MHL) Users and Carers project: Developing user and carer ambassadors for promoting quality of life in care homes for older people.
  5. Abigail Levin, Celia Harding and Ros Herman (Language and Communication Science): The evaluation of a coordinated approach to service user involvement across LCS teaching.
  6. Ahalya Subramanian (Optometry and Visual Science): Increasing patient involvement in Optometry.

Outlines of the six projects can be found by clicking on the link below.

Awards to Support Innovative Approach to Servicer User Involvement_Final List

We will keep you updated on the progress of the projects  over the next year and staff will also be presenting their work supported by the funds at one of the Community Engagement Lunchtime Seminar Series.

Alan Simpson

Chair, SHS Community Engagement (Service User Involvement) Strategy Committee