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Great week celebrating National Co-production Week
Last week was National Co-production and we had a great time celebrating the benefits of co-production across Oxleas. Every day, we've shared some examples of how we put co-production into practice.
As part of our Strategy 201-24, we are working to increase service user and carer involvement in the development of our services. Our Executive Lead for this work is Neil Springham, Director of Therapies. "Co-production creates better services that are more effective in meeting people's needs.
"Increasing co-production is one of the building blocks of our strategy and over the past year we have been developing the infrastructure to support this more at Oxleas.
"We have many great examples of excellent co-production across Oxleas but we want to spread this good practice across the whole organisation."
Neil talks about the Involved infrastructure - involving service users and communities in this short film (external link)
For more information about how we're taking co-production forward at Oxleas, contact Japleen Kaur, Assistant Director of Involvement, at japleen.kaur@nhs.net.
Below is a short film on our Woodlands Unit Garden grand opening, looking at how we've improved the outdoor space at one of our mental health units. This was a joint project involving service users and staff working with our estates team which has transformed the area to the benefit of all.
View our film:
Woodlands Unit Garden grand opening from Oxleas NHS on Vimeo.
Media enquiries
The communications team provides a point of contact for journalists to respond to all media enquiries.
We are happy to help journalists represent the trust accurately, so please do get in touch to ensure your facts and information are up-to-date before publishing your story.
Our media team is responsible for:
- Responding to media queries
- Arranging interviews with our nationally and internationally renowned experts who can talk about some of the trust’s specialist topics
For all media enquiries Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, please email oxl-tr.communications@nhs.net where a member of the team will review and action your request.
If you have an urgent enquiry outside of office hours or at the weekend, please contact our director on call via the Bracton Centre switchboard on 01322 294300.
Filming and photography requests
We receive documentary, location and broadcast filming requests on a regular basis – we consider all proposals on an individual basis and will try to accommodate proposals where possible, if appropriate.
No photography or filming is permitted without prior arrangement and agreement. Our patients always come first and we have a duty to protect their safety and confidentiality. Anyone found filming or taking photographs on the trust premises without the permission of the trust’s communications team will be asked to leave by the security department and may face prosecution.
Unless agreed otherwise, film crews and photographers must be accompanied by a member of the Communications Team at all times.
Contact: oxl-tr.communications@nhs.net
