A Dorset People

First report on

health services

in Dorset.

We held workshops around Dorset to find out whatForum members think about health services.

No one

No one

Half of the peoplehave had one

0

How many people at our workshops have had one?

0

50%

We asked people which health services they had good experiences with and whichwere a bad experience for them.

Optician 16 5

Dentist 18 7

Psychologist 5 5

Community Nurse

11 4

Hospital 13 9

Psychiatrist 6 9

Wheelchair

Services

2 6

Practice

Nurse

14 3

Occupational

Therapist

5 5

Dietician 10 1

Chemist

13 4Chiropodist

17 3

9 8Physiotherapy

11 3Audiology

9 7Clinic

There were a total of 245 votes

159Good

Experiences

86Bad

Experiences

That means that for the forum members we talked tomore than half (54%) their experiences with these services was bad

We would like to do more work on this to find out what has been going wrong and how we can work with health services to make things better

We also asked people about the sort of health information they would like

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26

12

Most people do not know howto contact sexual health services

We found out that…..

Then we filled in an easy questionnaire about

Most people said they would like to get information on sexual health services….

From their the or by post

Some would like to talk to support staff or health staff

A few would also like to get information on the internet or from local news papers

Things that might stop people using sexual health services were….

1. Not knowing enough about them

2. Feeling embarrassed

3. No transport to get there

We want to work with sexual health services to make sure things get better