This summer sees our team working locally to focus on the experience of local populations within Berkshire West, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire (BOB ICS). It’s fascinating to understand the variety of activities and connections between community-led health inequality and prevention research within BOB ICS. We’re pleased to be working closely with local community members, academics and statutory partners.
We’re noticing that when you put these collective brains and perspectives together a number of interesting things happen. Firstly, fresh thinking emerges about health beliefs, attitudes to healthcare services, secondly there is a new-found respect for people’s expertise, regardless of background and job title, and thirdly we can see what happens in reality when tools such as population health management approaches are put into practice. Our work is spanning BOB ICS’ Research Engagement Network, Oxfordshire Community Research Network and builds very much on work originating from Health Innovation Oxford & Thames Valley’s Community Involvement Team. In fact their recent publication provides a useful summary of the issues which we are building on.
