Our work with Partnership Boards
Healthwatch Cornwall facilitates five Partnership Boards: Carers, Learning Disability, Autism, Ageing Well and Mental Health.
The Boards meet quarterly and are attended by both people that use health and care services and unpaid carers, experts through their lived experience.
Representatives from Cornwall Council, the Integrated Care Board, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals Plymouth Trust and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector with direct expertise relevant to each Board are also members.
Meetings are both proactive in encouraging lived experience members to raise issues of importance to them and responsive to current issues. Involving people with lived experience in the co-production of local strategies and commissioning plans for health and social care services is a key role of the Boards.
Changes are being coordinated by Partnership Board Officers Mike Hooper and Robert O'Leary.
We are working to get 'the right people in the right place' to maximise the board’s ability to comment, question and co-design effectively. It is anticipated that an overarching Board will be operational by the summer, along with a refresh of both the Terms of Reference for each Board and the Board member role descriptions.
Agendas and minutes from the previous four meetings of each Partnership Board are available and accessed from the pages below, should you require documents from earlier meetings please email using the following link.
The partnership boards are quarterly meetings attended by service users and unpaid carers who are ‘experts by experience’ in these areas.
Representatives from Cornwall Council, NHS Kernow, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and voluntary sector staff with direct experience relevant to each board are also members.
Autism Partnership Board
An opportunity for autistic people, their families, and carers to work with professionals to help improve support and services in Cornwall.
Carers Partnership Board
The Board was set up in response to the National Carer Strategy to ensure carers are able to access the support and services they need to remain in their caring role.
Learning Disability Partnership Board
An opportunity for people with a learning disability, their families, and carers to work with professionals to improve the lives of people living with a learning disability in Cornwall.
Ageing Well Partnership Board
Bringing together older people, their representatives, the public, voluntary and community sectors to work to ensure the highest quality and best value services for older people in Cornwall.
Interested in getting involved?
Please note attendance at the Partnership Boards is by invitation only. If you are interested in being part of the Boards or would like to submit a question or comment, get in touch.