‘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.

 

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.

City University London wins national public engagement award

Dear All

As we welcome everyone back to the start of a new academic year, we wanted to share this good news that came in over the summer.

SUGAR (Service User and Carer Group Advising on Research)

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Researchers from the School of Health Sciences at City University London have won the Health and Wellbeing award in the national Engage Competition for their public engagement work.

Recognised for successfully developing community engagement and collaborative working in mental health nursing research, SUGAR (Service User and Carer Group Advising on Research) – which is facilitated by Professor Alan Simpson from the School of Health Sciences – was the winning project from over 230 entries. The competition is run by the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE).

The judges praised the project and the “thoughtful, sophisticated and deeply embedded engagement throughout the research process. The partners took ownership and the university has truly become their resource. Fabulous value and transferable to other disciplines.”

More can be read about this great news on the following links:

ELFT story

Winners:

http://www.eastlondon.nhs.uk/News-Events/News/SUGAR-Wins-National-Public-Engagement-Award.aspx

Shortlisted:

http://www.eastlondon.nhs.uk/News-Events/News/SUGAR-shortlisted-for-national-public-engagement-award.aspx

 NCPPE Story

http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/blog/engage-competition-2014-awards-ceremony

http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/news/nccpe-engage-competition-2014-award-winners-announced

https://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/work-with-us/competition/competition-finalists

New Online Resources

Here are two online resources which you might useful:

This is available on the Higer Education Academy website.  A network of people with a shared interest in patient & public involvement in higher education, who aim to develop a critical alliance of people with lived experiences, students and academics for the purpose of enhancing improving practitioner education, patient experience and associated research in health and social care.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Has published online resouces regarding involving carers in forensic mental health settings.  Including video presentations from their recent conference on: What is Carer Involvement and What makes it difficult to involve carers? This workshop created a place to pool good practice in involving carers into Forensic Services. Importantly it became a trouble-shooting space to explore the challenges in involving carers in Forensic Services and the Quality Network.

These links can also be found under resources.

 

New Case Studies and Practical Tips for User and Carer Engagement

We have received two new case studies this week one from Language and Communications on Aphasia and one from Mental Health.

Language and Communication Sciences: Example of “Stories with aphasia”

Read about the project  “Stories with aphasia” set up by Drs Madeline Cruice and Lucy Dipper for individuals with aphasia to experience telling their story successfully.  The project is designed to connect Londoners who have aphasia with volunteers who act as story-buddies, assisting each person to produce a digital multimedia story.

Mental Health: Incorporation of service user experience into a module on experiencing acute care in mental health

This case study includes some very positive feedback from students demonstrating the influence of service user experience in the classroom:

‘I personally loved it. I was fascinated by her story and what she has been through and could have listened to her for hours. It was interesting to hear from her perspective how she felt about the stigma and also about how the medication worked for her. I’d love to know even more about her experience and I think she is very brave!’

Practical Tips for User and Carer Engagement

If you need support with regards to user and carer activities remember to look at the resources listed under Guidelines, including helpful tips such as paying service users and carers and practical considerations when involving users and carers.

If you wish to speak to someone about user and carer activity please do contact your division’s Community Engagement representative listed on the key contacts page.

New Case Studies and Community Engagement Lunchtime Seminar

This week we have uploaded three new case studies; please click on the links below to read about the recent experiences of staff inviting user and carer participants into the classroom:

Language and Communication Sciences: Using adults who have learning disabilities to teach speech and language therapy students

 

Language and Communication Sciences: Exploring the Needs of Young People and Teenagers

 

Mental Health: Simulated Practice: Working in partnership with carers

 

Also don’t forget the next lunchtime ‘Community Engagement’ seminar is taking place on Monday 7th April:

‘Building a Research Community:

The Benefits of Working Collaboratively with People with Aphasia’

Abi Roper, Judith Kistner and Sarah Northcott

School of Health Sciences

Monday 7th April 2014 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

A225, College Building, City University London, EC1V 0HB

[All Welcome]

For further information contact: a.simpson@city.ac.uk

 

 

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