Your views wanted: Community Response and Resilience to COVID-19

NHS Western Isles is asking islanders to take part in a number of online surveys to understand how people living in remote and rural areas are coping during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. 

The surveys are part of a piece of work being taken forward by the joint Northern Periphery & Arctic Programme (NPA) COVID-19 Response Group, who want to learn about the daily issues you face and how you are managing with social distancing and changes to everyday life.  

You can offer invaluable insights into life before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, including key challenges you have faced and the coping strategies you have used. This information will help us to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted individuals, families, communities, policies and services at both locality country and global level, and will be key to informing society in the future.

There are four surveys in all and you may wish to complete more than one survey if it is relevant for you.  The surveys are:

• General Public – https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/2YYV678  
• Families with school-age children – https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/H38FWY3
• Patients and healthcare users – https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/YDXVGGR
• Education staff (to be distributed to primary and secondary teachers via  local Education Department)

Each survey will help provide information on the impact of Coronavirus, and what was useful and good practice during this time. This will help to inform recommendations for future projects.

For further information please contact Martin Malcolm, NHS Western Isles Projects Lead, tel. 01851 708011 or email: martin.malcolm@nhs.net