We also conducted a survey of healthcare professionals in the 1 0 London clinics in 8 hospitals where peer
support is offered by Positively UK asking them of their perception of the service and how they think it
complements clinical care. The hospitals are Chelsea and Westminster, Ealing, Homerton, Newham,
Northwick Park, Royal Free, Royal London and St Mary’s.
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1 00% of HCP’s were satisfied with Positively UK’s Peer support (80% extremely satisfied and 20%
very satisfied)
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80% said that peer support either significantly (20%) or very significantly (60%) improves well-being
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1 00% said they would recommend Positively UK’s peer support to colleagues
What does this mean?
Positively UK’s aims are ‘improving the physical, emotional and social well-being of people living with HI V’;
we consider good health to be determined by all three, they are equally important and often over-lapping.
Results show Positively UK’s
peer support service
contributes to achieving
these goals especially
emotional and social well-
being
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Future
Most of the respondents prefer group support (78%) and face to face with one person (66%) One to one
over the telephone scored higher than one to one through email (45% vs 40%)
Still looking at how people would prefer to access Positively UK’s peer support service in the future, trends
were very similar with male and female respondents and unsurprisingly women slightly prefer group
support and short modular courses.
Generally the trends were similar when analysed by other factors such as sexuality, with slightly more
heterosexuals preferring group support.
1 0
Nine out of ten said
peer support improved
emotional well-being.
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