Present: David Bellamy, Chair of Littledown Surgery Patient Group
Emma Prince, Practice Manager
Lianne Chalmers & Lyndsey Trinder – Digital Champions Project
18 patients
- Apologies: From 3 patients
- Review of notes from last meeting – 12 December 2018
There were no matters arising from the last meeting - Public Health Inequalities Funding – Jack Blakley
Jack from Public Health spoke about a number of areas including:- Live Well Dorset – support for healthier living e.g. weight loss, support to stop smoking, increasing exercise
- NHS Health checks are funded by Public Health, for patients aged 40 – 74 with no diagnosed cardio-vascuilar disease. The health checks give an idea of the risk of experiencing a CV issue in the future. Littledown Surgery will be starting to offer these again, and will be writing to invite qualifying patients to book in for these checks soon.
- BCP merger
- Additional funding for look at locally defined issues in health and wellbeing. What does the group feel are some local priorities? We have been offered £800 to promote local work/events. Some ideas suggested include:
- Laughter Yoga
- Singing groups
- Walking in Schools
- Walking Group
- A Health and Wellbeing event – BP, cholesterol, lung function checks etc
- Help & Care to talk about the services they offer
- Fire Prevention
- Exercise information from Littledown Centre
- Invite practice and Primary Care Network population