NHS Community Conversations are all about you. They are an opportunity for you to tell your healthcare stories to the people who provide that care, so that you can help shape and improve health and social care in Suffolk.
NHS Community Conversations are held by NHS Suffolk, Suffolk Community Healthcare, Suffolk Mental Health Partnership Trust, Ipswich Hospital, West Suffolk Hospital and the East of England Ambulance Service, and include GPs, nurses and the Out of Hours service.
We particularly welcome people of different ages, (dis)abilities, race, religion or belief, sex (including reassigned gender), and sexual orientation, and we welcome carers.
At the NHS Community Conversations individuals are invited to tell us their health and healthcare stories from the past year. This may involve experiences (both good and bad) about visits to an optician, dentist, pharmacist, GP, minor injuries unit and / or hospital(s), perhaps with an ambulance. We also want to hear about how you look after your own health.

In practice, you have the opportunity to tell your stories in groups of ones and twos to someone from the NHS. Then, in larger groups, you have the chance to tell us more. Previous group themes have included Dignity & Respect, Family & Carers, Medicines and Using Them, and What keeps you Out of Hospital.
From each year’s Community Conversations we have gained some clear messages (click on report links below for details). We feed back on those messages in the following year: the links below show some of what we have done in response to your messages in previous years.
If you would like further information, please contact 01473 770158 or e-mail getinvolved@suffolkpct.nhs.uk

Thank you for your contributions!