What did we do in June?
It was great that Philip, one of our most established members of TRAC and I were able to present at the Lived Experience Network (LEN) in Swansea as part of the All Wales Supporting Community Engagement group, where all the universities in Wales work together to showcased patient and pubic engagement.
This is Julia Terry and Vaughan Gething with the Patient Experience and Evaluation in Research (PEER) group.
Vaughan Gething Minister for Health, Well-being and Sport was there and spent some time hearing about the work TRAC does. He asked Philip and I a few questions about the way we train nurses at USW.
It was great for us to hear about the role of patients, families and carers and how they influence education in Health sciences throughout the UK.
The experience was extra special for me as it was the first time I had presented at a conference and the support I received from Philip was invaluable. It was also Learning disability awareness week 19th-25th June and so I wrote a blog for learningdisabilitynurse.com about the experience.
It was great to have some feedback about the blog from Peter Bates from the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) who has a fantastic website dedicated to involving people with learning disabilities in research and the community, there are a range of how to guides, which you can find here. The thing that struck me the most was how calm and relaxed Philip was about the experience, in stark comparison to me!
One of our first year student nurses Caitlin was also there and she was lucky enough to win a prize for the poster presentation that she submitted, all about TRAC and the work we do, she also made the poster easy read which is so important.
Well done Caitlin and thanks to Julia and Philip
Great to read about the fabulous work of TRAC...keep it going
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