VCS engagement with health and wellbeing boards survey

Regional Voices has launched its third survey asking the VCS about its engagement with health and wellbeing boards, including what is working well, what could work better and what support would help.

The survey, whose results will be used to influence policy makers, develop support mechanisms and share interesting practice, is aimed at:

• Voluntary sector representatives on health and wellbeing boards;
• Healthwatch representatives on health and wellbeing boards; and
• The wider VCS.

The survey asks about routes into the health and wellbeing board, including how the VCS sector is able to influence the joint strategic needs assessment, the health and wellbeing strategy and local commissioning. It also hopes to capture how engagement with the boards is changing over time, and includes a new question looking at health and wellbeing boards use of local Compacts.

To take part in the survey, which should take around 10 minutes to complete and closes at noon on Friday 23 January, visit www.surveymonkey.com/s/HWBengagementsurvey3.

The more people who respond to this survey, the better Regional Voices will be able to influence policy makers and the more tailored the support programme for the voluntary sector can be. 

The survey is part of a Department of Health funded project which aims to support voluntary sector influence on health and wellbeing boards. For further information about this project and how to get involved visit www.regionalvoices.org/hwb-reps.

To view the results of previous surveys visit www.regionalvoices.org/hwb-reps/survey.