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Welcome to the Yorkshire and Humber Involvement Network website!
The Yorkshire and Humber Involvement Network brings together service users and staff from 15 different secure services that include NHS and private organisations providing low and medium secure care. The Network is about sharing best practice, service improvement, and collaborative working to improve the experience and quality of support that people receive
We are the team that brings together the Yorkshire and Humber Involvement Network. Our team works with service users, staff and commissioners to continually engage and sustain the Network to ensure it is proactive, motivating and fun. We come together as a team with our different skills and abilities which ensures that we all bring something fresh and creative to the Network. We use evidence based practice as well as innovative methods to generate ideas and ensure we are productive. We strive to do this in accessible and inventive ways.
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Cygnet Bierley – Social Hub
By Javaid Razzaq, Involvement Lead
In Cygnet Brierley we had a room which was boring, the room wasn’t used much at all, 1 or 2 hours it was being used a day and it was called a Tuckshop. This was where service users would come to buy snacks or any charity clothes they wanted and return back to the ward. Not much activity was going on and it was a room lacking energy and was in need of a makeover. Service users would spend time in the room, it had a few computers and service users didn’t really use them much, a TV screen which wasn’t getting used either.
Here are some pictures of the room as it was…
Then one day Myself Javaid Razzaq and Parveen Hussain had a meeting with an expert by experience from Cygnet named Raf. When he came and sat in the room and we started discussing about how to develop the space and increase engagement and activities for service users, we decided to make a Social Hub, we would put lighting along the ceiling and floor, get a PlayStation 5 with loads of games, have some arcade machines in and put service users favourite posters on a wall as a theme. We turned the room around in a couple of days with the help of service users and now it is a room service users come in relax and enjoy themselves. It’s a room known as the ultimate off ward experience it was called by one of the service users, It has become a room service users go to when the wards are getting too much or when service users just want to wind down and relax, it has changed the way hospitals work and has increased engagement to another level.
Here are some pictures of the room now…
Thank you for reading Jav…