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YiPpEe Team Information
There are currently __ members, including:
Chair - Maryam
Deputy Chairs - Ruby
Young People’s Governors - Emily and Sara
They are supported by the following staff:
Vivienne Lee, Melanie James and Tracy
Toohey
YiPpEe are also supported by staff from:
Health Play Specialist Team
Organisational Development
The Hospital Charity
Teenage Cancer Trust
Puzzle Corner Answers
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Newsletter for the Young People’s Executive - known as YiPpEe
Giving Children and Young People a voice at OUH
Issue 04
Winter 2018/19
Big Youth Forum Meet Up
Three YiPpEe members and one from the Teenage Cancer Trust attended
the Royal Derby Hospital. The theme chosen was Mental health and Well-
being: The Future is Young asking the question: Just whose responsibility
is it? The guest speaker was a rap artist Nick Brewer who is an advocate
for Mental Health and an Ambassador for Anxiety UK. He gave a very
moving rap on his own experience. Both young people and staff had op-
portunities to share good practice and good ideas. Workshops offered
were creative writing, meditation and yoga, lego therapy, clubbercise and
art therapy.
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Trip to Brookes
In April 2018, YiPpEe visited Oxford
Brookes University. We were given a
tour of its facilities for training nursing
students, and then proceeded to meet
these students. They were reviewing
different resources available for patient
information, e.g. leaflets on
breastfeeding. YiPpEe members joined
in the discussion, thinking about how
these resources could be improved –
this is especially important for YiPpEe to
think about when their target audience is children.
Sleepover
Immediately after the YiPpEe film
launch.
YiPpEe members took part in a
sleep-over at the Children’s
Hospital.
The aim of this was to test ward
noise levels and their causes at 9,
12 and 6.
Film Launch
18 months in the making, the YiPpEe film launch
was an exciting occasion for all its members, both
old and new. The existence of this informational
film is very important for improving patient
experiences on the Children’s Ward at the John
Radcliffe Hospital, as it provides honest and useful
information about a child’s hospital experience.
Aside from phenomenal acting by staff and YiPpEe
members, it is well worth seeing by any patient,
parent or young person interested in improving
patient experience.
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Risk Summit
The risk summit is an annual meeting discussing what the hospital could
improve on. Ishaan, Sara, Maryam and Kat attended the summit in the
summer as the only members of the public present. To ensure positive
patient identification, Ishaan proposed the idea of including photos in
patient records. The hospital now has plans to use this method.
Some of
the posters
on display
at the Big
Meet Up
It’s okay not to
be okay
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