Ann Innes (she/ her/ they)
Chief Officer
East Dunbartonshire Voluntary Action
Scotland
Biography
I am the Chief Officer at East Dunbartonshire Voluntary Action. We are the Third Sector Interface within the local authority area. As part of my role I sit on the local Integration Joint Board which oversees the local health and social care partnership, and I also sit on the Community Planning Board. We are the administrators in East Dunbartonshire for the Scottish Government's Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund (now in year 2 of this fund) which provides funding to support local community projects which deliver a wide range of activities aimed at decreasing social isolation, increasing wellbeing and ultimately have a role in preventing poor mental health. Prior to this I was CEO with CACE - Older People, Active Lives, and before that I was the Head of Outreach with Prostate Cancer UK where I had responsibility for Peer Support, Health Information and our Men at Risk Programme(health awareness) . Before that I worked for the British Lung Foundation and for Breast Cancer Care in roles involving peer support and health awareness. I am based in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Outside of work I am involved as a volunteer with two peer support initiatives, as a board member and peer supporter with a small charity working with people who have the experience of "hearing voices" and/or self harm and their family members, and I am a peer supporter with a small group for parents of transgender children/ young adults
Q Exchange ideas
Exploring the value of using video technology for group based peer support
Trialling video conferencing to enable group based peer support and comparing its benefits and value with online forum support and one to one telephone based peer support. Additionally we will seek to develop good practice guidance for others wishing to adopt this format of support
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Areas of interest
- Access
- Collaboration and networking
- Commissioning
- Community and voluntary
- COVID-19
- Digital technology
- Disability
- End of life care
- Funding and sustainability
- Improvement research
- Inequalities
- Integrated care
- Leadership
- Long-term conditions
- Mental health
- Older people
- Patient and public involvement
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
- Policy
- Public health
- Quality improvement
- Social care
- Wider determinants of health