Consultation and Engagement Database

The Volunteer Centre Greenwich Annual Report for 2021-2022 outlines the outcome of activities from the year, progress on existing projects, and the direction of the organisation for the coming year.

The Greenwich Hub for Influence, Voice, and Engagement (G-HIVE) will support the representation of local communities’ needs and aspirations around health and social care. By ensuring that the voices of local communities are heard, G-HIVE will support system change. This, in turn, will support them to access NHS and social care services in a timely way, and help to address inequalities within them about access, outcomes, and benefits.

The Greenwich Hub for Influence, Voice, and Engagement (G-HIVE) aims to support the Statutory and Voluntary Sectors, and local communities, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich to redress the deep-rooted inequalities in the borough. This will be delivered by:Creating a powerful infrastructure and set of activities that better ensure representation of local communities’ needs and aspirations. G-HIVE will build a culture of system change, with a focus on developing strong, professional, and beneficial relationships with local communities, groups, and organisations based on trust. G-HIVE will also improve consultation and co-design processes, which include the voices of seldom-heard communities, to ensure continued progression of community development, engagement, and participation.

Working with the Royal Borough of Greenwich, Healthwatch Greenwich supported service user and informal carer involvement in the procurement element of the commissioning process for Local Neighbourhood Care Services (LNCS). This report, part 1, contains a description of the process undertaken by Healthwatch Greenwich to support service users and informal carers to take part in the procurement element of the commissioning process.

This document describes the population of Lewisham in terms of the key health and socio-demographic characteristics, including mortality, morbidity, ethnicity and inequalities.

The wide-ranging consultation exercise was supported with publicity on social media and paper copies of the strategy consultation document available in the Royal Borough's libraries. Read about the scope of engagement and consultation work in this report.