Annual members’ meeting

Introduction

Our Annual Members’ Meeting is your opportunity to help shape how health and care services are delivered closer to home and in our neighbourhoods. Meet NHS staff, community organisations and our governors, access health and wellbeing advice, learn more about local services, and celebrate what we’ve achieved together during the past year.

Our governors will also be hosting an informal drop-in session throughout the afternoon, offering the chance to share feedback, answer questions and share details about their role in representing our communities.

Date:

Wednesday 30 September 2026

Location:

Paignton Library, Great Western Road, Paignton, TQ4 5AG

Schedule:

Midday to 3pm: Neighbourhood conversations
2pm to 4pm: Marketplace
3pm to 3:45pm: Annual Members’ Meeting (includes livestream)

Anyone who can’t attend in person will be able to watch the meeting via a livestream. Contact our Foundation Trust team to request a link, call 01803 655406 or email Foundation Trust Office.

Questions for the Annual Members’ Meeting should be submitted in advance by emailing the Communications team by 5pm on Monday 28 September.

The library café will remain open throughout the afternoon.

Thank you to Healthwatch Torbay for helping us to organise this year’s event.

Health event stallholders

Thank you to our colleagues and local partners for supporting our event. The following services will be at the event from 2pm to 4pm to offer health and wellbeing advice, interactive sessions, and help answer your questions.

Exeter vaccination outreach team: Get a free NHS Health Check if you’re 40 or older and not on a pathway with their GP. Get advice about reducing your risk of heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease and stroke.
Community services: Find out how well you’re ageing by taking part in fun, interactive activities to test your grip strength, balance and reaction and receive advice about how to maintain your mobility and ageing.
Clinical engineering services: An interactive demonstration of how medical physics and clinical engineering is central to all patient pathways.
Screening services: Information about bowel, cervical and Abdominal aortic aneurysm and why screening is important to reduce your risk of ill health.
Breast screening service: Information and advice about breast awareness, when to contact your GP and what to expect at a breast screening appointment.
Lung cancer: Information about our lung cancer screening programme.
Community dental service: Oral health information and where to get help and advice.
The Harbour: Meet colleagues from our new community frailty unit and learn more about our frailty virtual ward and same day emergency care unit.
Your Health Torbay: Learn more about the service, how to get help to stop smoking and take part in a chair-based exercise.
TALKWORKS: Get information and advice about how to look after your mental health, or someone you care for.
Children and Family Health Devon: Get information and advice about services to support children and families.
MY CARE: Get help to sign up to the new MY CARE health information app, which brings together your health appointments, test results and records in one place.
Torbay Sensory Team: Information and advice on our home visiting service, and local support groups for anyone affected by hearing loss.
Pain service: Try a virtual reality headset to learn how technology is enhancing pain rehabilitation and supporting people to manage persistent pain.
Dietetics service: Information, tasters, recipe ideas and demonstrations about nutrition and dietetics, with a focus on preventing malnutrition and hydration.
Torbay Hospital Library: Speak to our librarians about how to source trusted health information sources online.
Torbay Carers Service: Information, advice and support for people who care for someone, including health, wellbeing, financial and benefits.
Torbay and South Devon NHS Charity: Sign up for one of our fundraising events, or talk to our team about setting up your own event, and learn how we spend donations.
Member services: Meet our governors, sign up to become a member and ask about specific issues in your community.

Neighbourhood conversations

Do you want to help shape the future of neighbourhood health and care services across Torbay and South Devon? We’ll be running a series of small group conversations to understand what’s important to help people to live well and receive personalised, joined-up care closer to their home.

We want to hear from people who have experience of receiving care in the past three years – either as a patient, a carer, a volunteer or community groups – to join one of six themed discussion groups so we can understand what matters most and how services could work better together:

midday: Children and young people with long term health conditions
midday: Frailty and falls
1pm: Diabetes
1pm: Cardiovascular health
2pm: End of life care
2pm: Respiratory health

Each conversation will last around 45 to 60 minutes and we’ll ask you to share your thoughts, ideas and experiences about what works already, what could be improved and what support people need to live well in their communities. These are early listening conversations to help shape our future neighbourhood model, not a consultation on a set of proposals or a fixed plan.

There are eight spaces available in each themed group and we’ll allocate places to ensure a broad range of experience and viewpoints. You don’t need any specialist knowledge or expertise to join us.

We’ll be running separate conversations with partners from the health and care sector, the voluntary sector and community organisations in the autumn.

Why get involved?

You’ll be helping us to:

understand what gets in the way of accessing care and support
find out how we can improve coordination between services
explore how care can be delivered closer to home
build on community strengths
shape future neighbourhood health and care models

Feedback is confidential and the information we gather from these conversations will help with the development of our neighbourhoods’ model during the next 12 to 18 months.

Register your interest

Please email the Communications team by 5pm on Friday 18 September stating which themed discussion group you’d like to attend. Please include a brief description about why this theme interests you.

Please also let us know if you have any specific requirements and if you’re interested in more than one theme. If the times don’t clash and there is space, we’d be happy to accommodate people joining more than one discussion group. We’ll confirm places a week before the event.