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Community and consumer engagement

Western NSW LHD is committed to working in partnership with health consumers and communities to achieve better health together. We actively seek the participation of consumers in assessing, planning, designing, implementing and reviewing solutions to the problems that affect them, their families, and their communities.

There are different ways you can be involved, including participating in consultations and yarning circles, providing feedback on publications, being a consumer/community representative on committees or advisory groups or working on co-design projects.

Many of our consultation options can be conducted both in person and online, either way we would like to hear from you.

To find out more contact us by emailing: WNSWLHD-Community@health.nsw.gov.au

You said, we heard

From time to time we will provide feedback to the public about previous consultation activities we have undertaken. You can find this information below:

Community consultation for Dubbo, Wellington, Narromine and surrounding towns

In 2021 the Western NSW Local Health District begun consulting with communities and health staff to develop an Integrated Clinical Services Plan for Dubbo, Narromine and Wellington.

The Plan will help inform how both services and infrastructure would be developed across the three locations.

The public were invited to complete an online survey about the clinical service plan as well as attend community drop in sessions held in each community.

Below are information sheets outlining the feedback received for each community:

Community engagement platform

We'll soon be launching an online community engagement platform. This will be a central space for collaboration and information sharing with consumers and communities in Western NSW. Once the online platform is live you will be able to access it from this web page, which will also contain a list of some of our projects. You'll be able to join the Online Community Network, to receive up-to-date information on engagement opportunities and training events.

More details to come soon.

Volunteering

Volunteers play a valuable role in our service and community.

There are a number of ways you can be involved as a volunteer, including:

assisting at kiosks
patient support
raising funds
gardening
social support for aged care residents
becoming a community exercise leader.

The type of activity you can assist with will depend on the needs of your local health facility.

To become a volunteer, you'll need to complete a volunteer application pack screening processes which may include vaccinations.

Please contact the Health Service Manager or Volunteer Coordinator at your local health service to find out more.

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