{"id":14,"date":"2021-09-28T12:39:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T11:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carer\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:36:44","slug":"involvement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Getting involved<\/h2>\n<h3>Why get involved?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>To use personal experiences of healthcare to help improve quality<\/li>\n<li>To give opinions in a measured way<\/li>\n<li>To use skills to improve healthcare services<\/li>\n<li>Used lived experiences to empower others and educate staff<\/li>\n<li>Have a keen interest in bringing about service improvement and being eager to make a difference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What can I get involved in?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Interviewing potential new staff members<\/li>\n<li>Presenting your carers journey to help the trust learn from your experiences<\/li>\n<li>Reviewing and developing essential information such as leaflets, posters, websites and films to ensure they are inclusive of carers needs<\/li>\n<li>Being part of a steering group or project meeting to ensure the carers voice is part of the decision making<\/li>\n<li>Participating in a focus group to give views on a specific topic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Our goals<\/h3>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2024\/12\/Patient-Experience-and-Involvement-Strategy-2023_25.pdf\">Experience-and-Involvement-Strategy-2023_25<\/a>\u00a0sets out how Oxford Health intends to build and improve on how we work with people of all ages who use our services to ensure we work in partnership with patients, carers, families and professionals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nhsuk-care-card nhsuk-care-card--non-urgent\">\n                <div class=\"nhsuk-care-card__heading-container\">\n                    <h3 class=\"nhsuk-care-card__heading\"><span role=\"text\"><span class=\"nhsuk-u-visually-hidden\">Non-urgent advice: <\/span>Get in touch<\/span><\/h3>\n                    <span class=\"nhsuk-care-card__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"nhsuk-care-card__content\">\n<p>Please contact Di Hilson, the trust\u2019s Carers Lead if you would like to register to be kept up to date with involvement opportunities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Email: <a href=\"mailto:Diane.Hilson@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\">Diane.Hilson@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Phone: 07775 816 646<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n            <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting involved Why get involved? To use personal experiences of healthcare to help improve quality To give opinions in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}