Are you a patient, carer, or member of the public living in North Central London and North East London and would like to shape the future of health and care for your communities? Come and join our Lived Experience Network.
At UCLPartners, we work to solve real world health challnges facing our local population through innovation: testing, building, inventing and scaling solutions that will improve the future of health and care. To do this well, we need to work together with people whose lives our work affects: patients, carers and communities.
This is why we see Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) as a core approach for our work.
We make sure patients, carers and communities can work with us across our projects and programmes. We create opportunities to share experiences, views and knowledge, and to work together to actively inform and shape outcomes of health and care innovation.
How do we do this?
We work in two ways to help make sure communities can be involved in our work:
- We work to develop ways to involve and engage patients, carers and members of public in health and care: connecting them to opportunities, supporting them through the process, and helping change the systems that get in the way of our work together.
- We support our partnership of healthcare professionals, researchers, industry and innovators to understand what involvement is and why it’s so important. Then we help them build the knowledge and skills to make it a core part of their work.
Find out more about what PPIE means to the people involved and how it will help shape health innovation.