What sort of impact can patients and staff collectively make on eye clinics, in supporting eye research and in education at Moorfields Eye Hospital and at other eye hospitals across the country? What sort of hospital do we want the new Moorfields to be?
I joined a range of patients, charities, and staff at a Saturday morning workshop on December 12th 2016, brain-storming how we (patients and staff) can collectively improve services at the hospital to make them more patient-centred.
There were six five-minute talks which were filmed, and then a lot of discussion around the ideas that had been raised.
I was there representing BUS, to tell our story, summarized in the illustration below. If you click on the photograph, you will see the drawing in greater detail. It really captures the essence of the workshop. Rather amusingly, you can see me standing on top of the world, under the banner “Forming partnerships” saying “I no longer feel alone.” The drawing, done during the workshop discussions as we spoke, is by a talented artist, Sandra Howgate.
The team that ran the workshop New citizenship project will be presenting a report to the hospital.
Moorfields is part of the new NHS England Vanguard hospitals collaboration. You can find out more about the Vanguard movement on the Moorfields’ website http://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/news/moorfields-vanguard-new-nhs-hospitals-collaboration-drive