Calling all Health and Social Care workers! Let’s Be Heard wants to hear from you

Care professionals and/or care service users are being invited to share their experiences of the pandemic with Let's Be Heard.   

Let’s Be Heard, the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry’s listening project, is the main way in which people can contribute to the Inquiry’s investigations and help inform its reports and recommendations. 

Everyone who was in Scotland between 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2022, or was affected by decisions made in Scotland during this time, is being invited to share their experiences of the pandemic with Let’s Be Heard.    

More than 5,400 people and organisations have already shared their experiences of the pandemic and the lessons they believe should be learned so that Scotland is better prepared in future. The Let’s Be Heard team is grateful to everyone who has participated and is now analysing the experiences shared.  

Let’s Be Heard is continuing its public engagement work to support the Inquiry, as well as focusing on analysing people’s experiences.  

Having completed their National Engagement phase, the team are now turning their attention to Focused Engagement, which will see them, through conversations and focus groups, take a more targeted approach into some of the areas the Inquiry is investigating.    

It is essential that Let’s Be Heard hear more from care professionals and/or care service users in Scotland, to better understand the unequal impacts of the pandemic and assist the Inquiry’s investigations.

Across these audiences, the team are particularly interested in hearing more from:

• Health care workers
• Social care workers
• Those who provide care in their communities
• Care workers in end of life settings
• Unpaid carers
• Minority ethnic carers
• Those living / working in rural and island communities
• Those in areas of multiple deprivation

To engage with Let’s Be Heard, please visit lbh.covid19inquiry.scot or fill in our online form to share your experience.

If you have any questions you can contact the team by:    

•  emailing LetsBeHeard@covid19inquiry.scot;    
• leaving a voicemail at 0808 175 5555; or 
• writing to us at Freepost SCOTTISH COVID-19 INQUIRY.   

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