Lunch and Learn Recordings

Lead: Phil Herbert – Director - Healthy Living Projects

The Welcome Centre is a day centre for homeless people in Redbridge. For many it is the first port of call when facing homelessness. The project aims to bring together all the services under one roof that homeless people might need access to. We deliver a trauma informed and person centred approach to bring about change for each person that uses the service. Homeless people suffer huge health inequalities and this session will look at some of the ways that we are trying to narrow that gap and bring about an end to rough sleeping.

Lead: Hasneen Choudhury – Strategic Lead for Children’s Centres

Redbridge Children’s Centres offer a whole range of services to families with young children (0 to 4 years and to 8 years for children with special educational needs and disabilities). They also work in partnership with families and service providers to ensure families have positive experiences of accessing Early Years services in Redbridge.

This session aims to share information about the Children’s Centres service offer, examples of partnership working and to further develop relationships with teams and organisations that work with families with children of this age group.

Lead: Adam Breeze – Sign Solutions

The Redbridge Place based Partnership Team in Public Health are proud to invite you to join Adam Breeze from Sign Solutions in this exciting opportunity to gain insight into what it is like to grow up profoundly Deaf. We will learn what it’s like to have British Sign Language (BSL) as your first language and challenge some misconceptions around being deaf. This session will be insightful and useful for us all, but particularly to colleagues who work closely with residents/patients and may come into contact with a d/Deaf person.

Lead: Helen O’Connor – RQS Implementation Manager

The service is delivered by V-I-A and went live in April. Redbridge Quits Smoking operates from a main hub in Ilford Town Centre and is developing a programme of satellite clinics and engagement events across the borough. The service offers free and confidential behavioural support and nicotine replacement therapies to anyone aged 12 and above who lives, works, or studies in Redbridge. As well as supporting those who are smoking cigarettes, RQS can also support people who are using other forms of tobacco that can also be addictive and harmful (such as Paan, Betel quid, bidi, gutkha or shisha), and those who are concerned about their use of vapes/e-cigarettes.

Lead: Emma Pattison – Reach Out Service Manager and Strategic Lead for Domestic Abuse and Violence Against Women and Girls

Redbridge Council has made a commitment to establish a dedicated borough-wide domestic abuse service. The Reach Out service is being developed and expanded to offer a range of practical and emotional support to victims/ survivors of domestic abuse. The service will also connect children and young people impacted by domestic abuse to support services and provide perpetrators of domestic abuse with access to LBR's Respect-accredited behaviour change programme, Spotlight. This session aims to share information about the Reach Out service offer, and to develop relationships and pathways with health organisations.

Lead: Ian Diley, Consultant in Public Health

Screening programmes are an important tool in our efforts to prevent disease. But how do we decide which diseases to screen for, and what are the risks and benefits of the programmes? We need to encourage our residents to attend appropriate screening programmes but we also need to ensure we are able to give them clear information so they can make an informed and empowered decision. This session aims to help provide answers to some of the questions that the public may have for us.

Lead: Alison Burford - Head of Health & Wellbeing

The Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure Health & Wellbeing Service supports residents to lead healthy lifestyle, through providing physical activity opportunities, support with healthy eating and positive mental health across the life course. The service offers universal programmes but are also a referral service, with a focus on children and young people, older people, females and people with disabilities or long-term health conditions.

The session will provide more information on the services offered, referral pathways and partnership engagement.

Lead: Darren Morgan, Local Voice

How can the CIS inform your work?

The CIS brings together data from a range of sources, including NHS Choices, Care Opinion, Google reviews, Healthwatch surveys, GP website feedback, Healthwatch ‘enter and views’, Patient Advice and Liaison Services and complaints data, compliments, community insight projects and voluntary and community sector projects.

The database holds around 75,000 comments from residents, giving us approximately 336,000 separately coded issues that we can use to rapidly generate reports. Sitting underneath is a wealth of qualitative data that can be analysed to better understand what our communities are telling us. We can match trends to specific resident quotes to provide detailed evidence of what is going on.

This 45 minute session, by the system's developer will talk you through:

• What is in the system - from health and care services through to wider wellbeing determinants.
• How information is processed.
• The trends analysis reports and underlying feedback - what they consist of, and how to produce them.
• Q&As.

Lead: Valeria Carrizo, Community Hubs Manager

The Community Hubs programme is an exciting initiative from Redbridge Council working with residents and partners to bring services closer to the community, improve the quality of services and meet local need. The Hubs will bring together different services across the borough such as libraries, children’s services and GPs, and provide a place where residents can come together and run activities.

*Note - this recording is temporarily unavailable.

Leads: Dr Anil Mehta – Clinical Director, Redbridge Place Based Partnership and Natalie Keefe – Head of Primary Care Transformation

As part of the Long-Term Plan, Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and General Practices are encouraged to build a team of people with diverse skills and capabilities to support increased access for patients, alleviate pressures on existing staff, and improve the quality of care and services. Dr Anil Mehta will talk through the roles, the type of patients they can see and the benefits to patients.