Blogs

Helen Craig speaks with Cynthia White and Raj Mehta, both experienced patient and carer contributors, on their experiences co-creating the UCLPartners Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Strategy

Helen Craig tells the story of how a new patient advisory group is formed – with partnerships, power sharing, and a commitment to making things better across eye and vision health care and research.

Helen Craig discusses how patient and public involvement and engagement sat at the heart of a new programme to support people with long COVID, ensuring that the work focused on the symptoms that matter to patients – and that the digital solution was useable for all.

Data-driven evolutions in healthcare have the potential to transform care for the better, but they can also exacerbate existing health inequalities (Challenging racism in the use of health data, Lancet, 2021). Here, Jacqui Gath shares her thoughts on the importance of data diversity in healthcare research and the steps that can be taken to address inequalities in healthcare.

Daphne Amevenu is Deputy Programme Director for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and proactive care at UCLPartners. Here, Daphne reflects on the importance of involving patients and the public in healthcare design and explains the approach she has taken to ensure patients are influencing the way the UCLPartners’ proactive care programme develops.

Dr Erin Walker describes how UCLPartners has involved patients and carers in discussions about COVID-19 rehabilitation needs and how lessons learned have fed into London wide commissioning guidance.

Co-production is simultaneously an activity, an approach and an ethos which involves members of staff, patients and the public working together, sharing power and responsibility across the entirely of a project.

Agnese Lazzari, Improvement Advisor, shares what she has learnt about co-production through bringing together residents, staff and decision-makers in Newham to improve children’s dental health.

Dr Susanna Rance, a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute of Health and Human Development, University of East London (UEL), draws on experience from her team’s latest work in...

As a patient, I found the experience of attending the UCLPartners Education Conference 2015 -“Educating for patient-centred care”, a very valuable insight into the appetite wit...