The Arran Medical Group has joined up with Our Voice, a collaborative framework of organisations and government departments looking for solutions to tackle loneliness and isolation.
The multi-phased engagement process whose aims are to connect people to their community has already started with feedback forms being made available at various locations around the island. Interested participants can fill in a feedback form offering their ideas and solutions which once collated will provide the basis for workshops, which is phase two, discussing the topic and looking at ways of implementing action to find solutions to loneliness and social isolation.
Using all of the input from the questionnaires and the workshops, a plan of action can then be formulated and passed on to decision makers such as the locality planning group, the integration joint board or locally based organisations offering social and health care services.