#conversations
2017

Our 2017 #conversations initiative
ran from 25th to the 29th of September. We
encouraged staff, patients and parents to talk to us about our
services.

We think continuing communication is important and part of this
process is including everyone in the discussions that affect them.
The 2017 #conversations week encouraged us to spend the time having
conversations, big and small, and with different people who are
invested in our shared vision. This all contributes to how we want
our services to develop and how we can all work together to achieve
this.

We focused on discharge and how we can work to make it better.
In 2016 we designed our Partnership Charter and this was launched
during #conversations in 2017. We also gave everyone the chance to
say a Big Thank You to anyone who made a real difference to their
hospital visit.

The week was kindly supported by Above and Beyond.
2016
In its first year #Conversations
ran from 14th to 23rd September and at the heart of the campaign
was an aspiration to change current thinking and embed a new way of
working in partnership.
47 staff and 40 volunteers gave their time to participate
in 57 separate activities all designed to engage children, young
people, families and staff in different ways including ward
roadshows, hospital based well being sessions, dolls dress up
sessions in play areas, reception events, job shadowing, and a fete
in the hospital garden. The event was launched by a music
video starring patients and staff, which reached 50,000 families on
Facebook.