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January- 15th January 2016
Happy New Year! I've had a lovely,
relaxing Christmas break and I feel recharged, ready for 2016!
I have recently been working with the
Communications Team on Catch, the self-care app that we are launching for
parents and carers of children ages 0-5 living in Cheshire. We have been
conducting further market research for the app, holding testing sessions at Children’s
Centres in Cheshire. We received a lot of useful feedback from parents which has been extremely positive, with everyone really supporting the idea of Catch.
We found parents particularly liked that the app gives NHS reliable advice, as oppose to conflicting
advice for example in different books. I think
Catch will be particularly useful for first time parents who may not have
a great deal of knowledge about babies’ health and will have one place they can
look to, to get NHS trusted advice.
We have been discussing the
marketing for the launch of Catch and have decided on having a health professional’s
engagement event. We will invite clinicians from across Cheshire such as
GPs, midwives, children’s A&E staff, nurses and health care assistants. This event will allow us to explain the reason behind Catch and allow health professionals to try the app themselves so that they can promote its use to patients in order to reduce unnecessary children's A&E admissions. We are also planning for a public launch of Catch.
As well as this, along with Amy
and our managers, I have been shortlisting for the new placement students as the closing
date for the placement positions was this week. There are some great candidates
for the roles and I am looking forward to meeting them at the interviews next
month. I have really enjoyed the recruitment process so far and have learnt what recruiters look for in a good CV.
I have also been working on
developing CQUIN ideas for next year; we had a productive workshop with our
mental health provider CWP last week and will be having our staff workshop next
week to develop initial ideas further.
Also this week, I attended our quarterly contract meeting with the private hospital in Macclesfield; Spire Regency. We
commission certain services from Spire and so have a quarterly contract meeting
with them to review finance and activity and quality and performance.
I also attended my first Caring
Together meeting this week. Caring Together is a programme central to the Transformation team, which is the department that Amy, the other
placement student at the CCG works in. As I haven’t been involved in
Transformation much, I was keen to learn more about what transformation entails. I learnt a lot about the innovative projects that are ongoing surrounding the programme.
