Eastern Cheshire Health Fair 2015!

28^th September-2^nd October

On Wednesday 30^th September the first Eastern Cheshire Health Fair was held at Macclesfield Town Hall. It was an event that was open to everyone and it was a chance for people to see what local health and care organisations are doing to promote healthy lifestyles and access to services. The fair featured a market place of stalls with stallholders including Cheshire East Council, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and The Caring Together programme to name but a few.  It was very well attended by members of the public and I believe the event was a great success through feedback received on the day from attendees. 

I was very heavily involved in the organisation of the Caring Together stall for the event, creating leaflets, organising a rota for the stall and setting up the stall on the day amongst other things.
After any event held by the CCG an evaluation form is given out to all the attendees to ask for their feedback on how well they feel the event was ran and any suggestions for further events that are held. I was tasked by the Communications and Engagement team at the CCG to create an online SmartSurvey for the Health Fair to send out to all that attended.    

Over the past couple of weeks I have been working with Katie, another placement student at the CCG, on an outcomes based commissioning approach for the CCG. This week we had a meeting with members of the commissioning, contracts and transformation teams to discuss the proposed process we had come up with. This was a very informative meeting for all members as it helped everyone to understand this new approach towards outcomes based commissioning and the process that the CCG could adopt in order to achieve this. It was then decided that this meeting will become a regular occurrence in order for everyone to keep up to date with the progress of this new approach to commissioning.

Towards the end of this week I had my three month review with my line manager. I cannot believe I have been on placement for three months already! The time has flown by! This meeting with my manager was really helpful for me as we discussed and identified my areas of strengths and areas for improvement. It was really nice to hear all the positive things that my manager had to say about me and that she was really pleased with all the work that I have completed so far. Also she identified some areas for improvement for my next review. These areas I had already identified myself such as improving my confidence! This is something that I really struggle with so this could still take some time to develop but I’m getting there! Also I need to take part in some training opportunities for effective minute taking skills which I will definitely sign myself up to do!