Speak Up Month 2024

For this October’s Speak Up Month, our theme is Listen Up and we will focusing on the power of listening, and the important part which listening plays in encouraging people to feel confident to speak up.

We want everyone who works here to feel confident to speak up. Confidence to speak up comes from knowing that if you speak up, you will be listened to and that appropriate action will be taken. We all have a part to play in listening to one another with respect and compassion.

This Speak Up Month is an opportunity for all of us to show that we are here to listen to one another and our commitment to fostering a Speak Up, Listen Up, Follow Up culture in our teams and throughout DCHS.

We are encouraging everyone to complete the Freedom to Speak Up Listen Up e-learning.

Only by listening to understand can we take the action needed for speaking up to make a difference.

We are #HeretoListen.

When you speak up, you can help us learn and improve. By listening up, we can make sure we understand what needs to change. By following up we can ensure that our learning leads to action and make DCHS a great place to work and receive care.

To celebrate Speak Up Month here at DCHS, our Freedom to Speak Up Guardian Jackie Rawlings is out and about working from the following sites during October:

• Monday 14 October - 9am – 12 pm – Alfreton Primary Care Centre, Meeting Room 3
• Monday 14 October - 1.30pm – 4pm - Wheatbridge Health Village, Counselling Room First Floor Corridor (ISHS corridor)
• Wednesday 16 October - 11am – 2.30pm - Coleman Street Health Centre (as part of the People Promise Roadshow)
• Wednesday 23 October - 11am – 2.30pm - Buxton Methodist Church (as part of the People Promise Roadshow)
• Thursday 31 October - 1.30pm – 4pm - Ripley Hospital, Visitors Room (top of Butterley Ward corridor)
• Thursday 14 November, Charnos Hall, Ilkeston Hospital from 12.30pm – 4pm (as part of the People Promise Roadshow)
• Thursday 28 November, North Wingfield Resource Centre, from 11am – 2.30pm (as part of the People Promise Roadshow)

Please do call in and have a chat if you are in the area – find out more about the role or talk through any concerns you may have. Drop in during the day or arrange an appointment.

Appointments are also available at all other times – by phone, MS Teams or face-to-face at a venue of your choice.

To arrange: Simply ring or text: 07795 293707
Email: j.rawlings@nhs.net or dchst.ftsu@nhs.net or complete the contact form found here.

We are encouraging everyone to take part in ‘Wear Green Wednesdays’ throughout October to show that they are hear to listen and their visible support for Freedom to Speak Up.

Remember to send us your pics if you do: dchst.communications@nhs.net