I'm a long term mumsnetter but have name changed for this to keep my work and personal lives separate...
I work in a NHS hospital providing a pain management service for people living with sickle cell disease (a genetic condition with varied consequences including pain; it is most common in people of black African and Caribbean backgrounds).
We are facing a number of challenges and I'm appealing to the creativity and knowledge of mumsnetters to help me come up with a few ideas please
Firstly what could we called? Something better than the Sickle cell pain management service !! It doesn't need to next say what it is - could just be one word, maybe something associated with wellbeing and resilience??? And/Or a name associated with a good visual picture which could be a logo
Secondly could anyone help me think of ways to engage the population I might not have thought of? Although there is a lot of interest in the service (esp as sickle cell has historically been under treated), attendance rates have been lower than we'd like - partly cos people get ill and need to rest rather than come to an appointment, partly because they have loads of appointments, perhaps because there's a wariness or mistrust of new people... Numerous possibilities. We've done letters/phone calls/consultant introductions and are looking into Facebook etc but think we need to do more...
I have run out of ideas and really want to provide a good service for people living with this difficult condition so I'm appealing to the wisdom of mumsnet - please throw any and all ideas at me! Thanks so much
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Whoputmeinchargeofthenhs · 05/01/2016 22:40
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