Patient engagement forum

Our Patient Engagement Forum (PEF) has been developed to ensure that the patient voice is heard by the ICB in line with our policy for working with people and communities.

The members include representatives from patient groups and people with advisory roles from across Hertfordshire and west Essex. The Forum has scheduled meetings every two months.

Forum members are connected to various communities and networks and use their insight into local views and issues to propose items to the ICB board. They also pose questions in the public participation section of board meetings in public.

The forum also now has its own closed Facebook page which is a safe space for people living or working in Hertfordshire and West Essex to have their say and get involved with their activities. Find out more about joining the group on Facebook.

Membership

Patient and community representatives

Alan Bellinger (Patient Chair) – ICB Buddy Scheme patient representative
Michael Carn – East and North Hertfordshire Community Assembly patient representative
Leighton Colegrave – Primary Care Transformation Committee citizen representative, East and North Hertfordshire
Fiona Corcoran – Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Healthwatch Hertfordshire
Joy Das – Primary Care Transformation Committee citizen representative, West Essex
Rita Dovey – West Essex Carers Network representative and member of The Princess Alexandra Hospital patient panel
Nishall Garala – Patient member of the Princess Alexandra Hospital Patient Panel
Sam Glover – Chief Executive Officer, Healthwatch Essex
Neela Hibbert – West Essex Citizens panel patient representative
Marianne Hiley – Primary Care Transformation Committee citizen representative, South and West Hertfordshire
Leigh Hutchins – Patient member of West Herts Teaching Hospital Patient Panel, chair of Disability Watford and Herts County Council physical Co-production Board
Shanie Hutton – Hertfordshire County Council
Justin Jewitt – Patient Safety Partner and Quality Committee patient representative
Indra Jones, patient volunteer for East of England Ambulance Service Trust and for the ICBs health inequalities group
Rajwant Kaur Singh – West Essex patient representative
Kevin Minier (Patient Vice Chair) – shared South and West Hertfordshire Health and Care Partnership Co-production Board patient representative
Martin Norman – East and North Hertfordshire patient representative
Andrew Smith – Viewpoint mental health service user representative
Claire Uwins – Patients Association task and finish patient representative
Ron Walker – Patient Participation Group (PPG) Chair (East and North Herts), part of the ICB’s PPG steering group
John Wigley (Patient Vice Chair) – shared South and West Hertfordshire Health and Care Partnership Co-production Board patient representative
Peter Wilson – Patient volunteer for the Cancel out Cancer campaign
Paul Campion – Quality Patient Group (Chair), patient volunteer