Following a meeting with colleagues from Dudley PCT, Dosti and partners are to deliver the following this Autumn:

• Voice sessions with Healthcare Forum members and otehr invited groups, and also with a GP cluster group,


• An Echo session with PCT commissioners...


• ... and hopefully a Joint Dialogue session bringing participants from both activities together to discuss barriers to commuinity influence in relation to strategic decision-making in the PCT.

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We have decided, in Wolverhampton, to meet together as a group of facilitators or supporters of Voice and Echo and try and have a strategic approach to using Voice and Echo in the City. We have held our first meeting and we are developing a strategy. Our second meeting is scheduled for the autumn. We had lots of ideas of where Voice and Echo could help community groups/organisations and agencies. We have made a start with using Echo and we have been using Voice for a while now. We also have an i… Continue

A couple of weeks ago two of us who are school governors and trained Voice facilitators ran a Voice first session with two governing bodies of different primary schools in Wolverhampton. We were very pleased with the outcome and the governors found it really useful. Following the morning session. One governing body spent the afternoon coming up with an action plan based on the findings of the morning session using Voice steps and indicators. The other school carried on to look at the School I

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Having sent you all a message I thought I would blog too! How amazing would it be to have all Voice and echo facilitators come together sharing ideas, success's, Stories and thoughts for the future!

or in the words of Vince Lombardi

“Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team

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