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Welcome to the
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We are a community group, established in 2017, seeking to raise awareness among churches in East Sussex of issues experienced by Christians who are BSL Users, Lip Readers and those with Hearing Loss...
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Welcome BSL CafeWelcome BSL Café Sunday July 21st from 2.30
Your opinion and experience is important – an interpreter will be with us. On July 21st We will have with us - Liz Mackie from Healthwatch; and Angela Hatcher – Membership Engagement and Community Relations Officer for Hastings & Rother; Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford CCG. At Welcome BSL Café Liz Mackie will share information about Healthwatch and will want to hear how it can better serve the Deaf BSL user, and lip-reading community. People can share with her their experiences of local NHS services, so that Healthwatch can better represent the Deaf community in their inspection reports. Healthwatch is an independent charity who inspect hospitals and care homes etc., and seek to collect information from local people about their experiences of a wide range of NHS services. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Angela Hatcher works for the CCG CCGs are Clinical Commissioning Groups made up of all the doctors in the area. Lots of changes are taking place in the NHS. They are trying to have a “Local Voices Network” so local people can influence and help prioritise local changes in the services available. Currently Deaf BSL patients are not represented. The CCG says:- “Sign up to our Local Voices Network and you can help influence and develop local health and care services as well as stay up to date with what is happening. Once signed up, you will receive regular updates on services in your area. We will also invite you to share your ideas and opinions with us via surveys, focus groups and other opportunities to be involved.” There are also Patient Panels attached to GP medical centres that it is possible to be involved in. Your experience and opinion as a BSL using, or lip-reading patient can make a difference to health and care services for local Deaf people. Angela Will share more about this so you can find out how to be involved and communicate what you want them to know. |
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Download our Top Tip poster HERE for your church noticeboard and help raise awareness about how everyone can support people with hearing loss.
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You can read a report HERE about the September 2017 awareness event held in Eastbourne
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