Establishing a Youth Healthwatch 2020/21

Report - 6 May 2021

Throughout the year a total of 9 Youth Healthwatch volunteers have been recruited and attending regular meetings.

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To start any new project or group will always be faced with challenges, establishing a Youth Healthwatch coincided with the start of the Covid 19 pandemic and the first national lockdown. Plans were to build upon existing relationships made during the focus groups to hold face to face events to allow a Youth Healthwatch to be designed and developed in a coproduced way with the young people. The first challenge was to engage with young people remotely and start the process in the uncertain times at the start of the pandemic.

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