Are you a patient, carer, or member of the public living in North Central London, North East London and Mid/South Essex and would like to shape the future of health and care for your communities? Come and join our Lived Experience Network.
At UCLPartners, our mission is to help people live longer, healthier lives through research and innovation. We believe that the only way we can do this is through working in partnership with people whose lives our work affects: patients, carers and members of the public.
We can’t tackle the biggest health challenges our communities face without working with them to identify, design and deliver new solutions. That’s why we make sure patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) is essential to the work we do: we want to make sure there are lots of opportunities for people who live in our region to share their knowledge, experiences and views, and work with us to actively shape health and care.
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.