WORKSHOP COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND HEALTH

14 JUNE 2010, STOCKPORT, UK

A workshop on community engagement and health was organised by EHMA and the Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council on 14 June. The event was run as part of EHMA's Policy into Practice Programme.  

The workshop brought a team from Gothenburg, Sweden over to Stockport to discuss effective citizen engagement in practice. The team is currently designing and building a new hospital -Angereds Närsjukhus- in the city of Gothenburg based on the needs of the population by putting the opinions of patients and citizens central to the development of plans for the new hospital.

Together with the Swedish team, 45 delegates from Stockport with a direct role in community engagement and health improvement explored how to optimise citizen engagement in deprived areas of Stockport.

PROGRAMME/PRESENTATIONS/VIDEO/PICTURES 

The workshop Programme can be downloaded here.

At the meeting the following two presentations were given by the Swedish team:

• Angereds Närsjukhus: the Swedish experience                           by Marianne Olsson, former Project Director, Angereds Närsjukhus and Håkan Linnarsson, President of the Local Health and Medical Care Committee, Sweden. 
• Angereds Närsjukhus: Population demands                                 by Lars Gelander, Head of paediatric clinic and Chief Medical Officer, Angereds Närsjukhus.

To read the meeting report, please click here. A video featuring comments from all workshop speakers is available here (for EHMA Members only) and pictures from the meeting are availble in EHMA's Photo Gallery. 

An EHMA briefing on citizen involvement in health including the Angereds Närsjukhus case study was prepared for EHMA Members in May 2009 and updated in 2010. The briefing is available here.

To express interest in the programme or for more information please contact Annemie Coëme (at Annemie.Coeme@ehma.org).