Our top five work areas for 2019/20

1. Mental Health

• Review the transition of young people from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to Adult Services, with a particular emphasis on the experiences of neurotypical and neurodiverse young people
• Continue online service user experience review of the iCope Kingston Psychological Therapies Service
• Time to Change Kingston Hub Coordinator - supporting Time to Change Champions and events, and promoting ‘sign up’ to the Time to Change Employer Pledge (now as a funded Hub)
• Chair and administrative support for the ‘Thrive Kingston Mental Health Strategy Planning and Implementation Group’ (year 2)
• South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust Partner Fund - supporting a partnership approach to mental health awareness events in the community
• Monitor progress of specialist service provision to people with Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD).

2. Learning Disabilities

• Capacity building Healthwatch Kingston to improve access and support meaningful engagement with local people with a learning disability (year 2)
• Develop a new Learning Disability Task Group of people living with a learning disability, their families and carers
• Chair and administrative support for the ‘Kingston All Ages Learning Disability Partnership Board’ (year 2).

3. Hospital Services

• Create an online hospital services patient experience survey
• Research patient experience of inpatient wards at Kingston Hospital NHS Trust
• Continue to monitor Kingston Hospital NHS Trust complaints and procedures.

4. Community Care

• Examine the impact of Kingston Coordinated Care on service users, patients and where possible, their carers. During the year, individual services that are established or have been revised by the KCC programme will be considered for review, with the initial focus being on Connected Kingston.
• Explore developing the Community Reference Group for adult safeguarding to become a sustainable adjunct to the Kingston Safeguarding Adults Board.

5. Young People

• Support Youth Out Loud! (YOL!) to review health and care services (we will do this in partnership with Healthwatch Richmond)
• Support delivery (with other partners including Healthwatch Richmond) of the Digital Youth Project (year 2) to complete a series of short health and care films by young people for young people c. Support YOL! develop its online and social media.