What does the Advisory Group do?
Our Advisory Group works alongside the local team to play an important role in setting and maintaining the strategic direction of Healthwatch Hampshire. It has a significant role to play, ensuring that Healthwatch Hampshire adheres to its principles and purpose and operates in a moral and ethical way in the service of the local community.
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The role includes:
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Formulating strategy and workplans with the local Manager
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Ensuring accountability for quality delivery of the strategy and workplan
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Shaping a positive culture
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Providing accountability to local people
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The Advisory Group is formed of volunteers and lay people and is not responsible for the day to day running of Healthwatch Hampshire. This is done by a small team of paid staff.
Meetings
Most of the Healthwatch Advisory Board’s meetings are held in public, with an opportunity to ask questions at the discretion of the chairman; these are not public meetings.
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There are certain decisions – who we represent and engage with, for example – which have to be taken in a meeting in public. The Advisory Board may hold some meetings in private, if there are confidential issues to discuss, or as briefings to develop our strategy. At other times, the Advisory Board may hold open meetings to capture the experiences of local people who use health or care services.#
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We held our first meeting in public of the new HWH Advisory Board in July 2024 and have held two subsequent quarterly meetings (in October and December 2024). Healthwatch Hampshire Advisory Board meetings are held quarterly over a 12 month period. The minutes of each of the quarterly meetings are reviewed at the subsequent meeting and once approved are published on this webpage.
We will publish planned meeting dates in advance with the annual series of 4 quarterly meetings available here.
Reports
Reports can be found on our News & Reports page.
Our Advisory Group members
We currently have a number of vacancies for board positions. For more information, visit our volunteering page.
Jonathan Chambers
Advisory Board Member
Liz Butterfield
Chairperson
Brian Collin
Advisory Board Member
Peter Barnard
Vice Chairperson
Jackie Orchard
Advisory Board Member