Join the national NHS New Hospital Programme engagement workshop on 16 April 2024

The national New Hospital Programme would like to invite you to a 90-minute virtual engagement workshop.

Share your experiences of being in an acute physical hospital setting as a patient with (or whilst caring for a loved one with) mental health difficulties, neurodivergence, learning disability and / or other cognitive, emotional, learning, communication or sensory processing difficulties.

The national New Hospital Programme team are running several patient and public workshops during 2024 to hear about your experiences using hospital services to help improve the designs and layout of future hospitals. This is to ensure those who use our hospitals are at the heart of the decisions being made.

They are also working with hospital clinicians, estates teams, digital – information and technology – and workforce colleagues, health regulators, the Royal Colleges, and other professional bodies, as well as public and patient experience groups, to ensure the best designs and clinical standards for all our hospitals are created.

Who this workshop is for

You are invited to join this workshop if you have had experience in an acute physical hospital setting as a patient with (or whilst caring for a loved one with):

• mental health difficulties
• neurodivergence
• learning disability and / or other cognitive, emotional, learning, communication or sensory processing difficulties.

About the workshop

This workshop is an opportunity to help ensure the New Hospital Programme delivers high quality care – improving the patient experience and meeting the needs of diverse communities.

This is a virtual workshop and will be held online using MS Teams on Tuesday 16 April 2024.

The 90-minute session will be held in the evening, from 6 to 7.30pm.

How to book your place

To book your place at this workshop session, please register online for the national NHP engagement workshop here (opens in new window).

When you book, you will be able to let the national New Hospital Programme team know if you have any accessibility or support needs to facilitate your participation.

You will receive a confirmation of your booking, and seven days prior to the workshop, the national New Hospital Programme team will send you the joining codes, background reading and a copy of the discussion prompts that the facilitators will take you through during the workshop.

Closing date to register: Thursday 11 April 2024.

Please note this is not a paid activity. This is classed as a role 3 opportunity under the NHS’s Patient Public Voice Partner Policy.

After the workshop

You will be sent a link to an evaluation form within a week of the workshop, which you are encouraged to fill in to evaluate the session and to provide any additional comments you wish to make.

There will be a further follow up within three to six months to provide you with an update on how the information from the workshops have impacted on the programme, this will illustrate how important sharing your experiences has been. If you wish not to receive any information after receiving the evaluation form, please email nhp.clinical@nhs.net.

If you have any questions or would like to speak to someone about the workshop or need help with booking your place, please email nhp.clinical@nhs.net.

About the national New Hospital Programme

The New Hospital Programme is a joint programme by NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care. You can read more about this on the Improving NHS Infrastructure website (opens in new window).