Community Partnerships: COPD Support Group East Grinstead
Supporting and working with community groups and clubs to promote a deeper understanding of local health and care needs and experiences
With the help of a Healthwatch Community Fund grant and Age UK East Grinstead who hosts the East Grinstead Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Support Group, so that local people living with COPD can meet. A dedicated volunteer, who lives with COPD set up the support group in September 2018.
In December 2018 our Healthwatch Engagement Worker captured the experiences and views from COPD Support Group members, about health and social care provision. The stories and views that were shared covered a range of topics.
The key topics people chose to speak about were:
- Understanding the COPD services, especially for using inhalers
- Difficulties in accessing GP and COPD Nurse appointments
- Unclear communication by health care professionals
- Transport issues to access COPD services
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Spotlight on COPD Support Group East Grinstead
If you are setting up or would like to share news of a similar project
we would be interested to hear from you. Please contact Cheryl Berry,
Partnership Co-ordinator
