A report said that public/patient involvement in public health and social care research could enhance the quality of research and research outcomes.
Source: Kristina Staley, Exploring Impact: Public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research, Involve
Links: Report | NIHR press release
Date: 2009-Dec
A report examined the importance of engaging communities in health promotion and health services, and the health benefits that this could bring.
Source: Fiona Campbell with Liam Hughes and Tim Gilling, Reaching Out: Community engagement and health, Improvement and Development Agency (020 7296 6693) and National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Links: Report
Date: 2009-Jul
A report said that primary care trusts have noted 'significant changes' in the way they organized patient and public engagement in commissioning, amounting to the 'beginnings of a cultural shift'. But the change in culture might be mainly within the PCTs' own management, rather than something that had impacted on the public or changed the nature of services: the public had yet to have a strong influence on the content of most patient and public engagement strategies.
Source: Patient and Public Engagement: The early impact of World Class Commissioning, Picker Institute Europe (01865 208100)
Links: Report | Picker Institute press release
Date: 2009-Jun
An article examined participation in decision-making by users of mental health services. Although government policies officially attempted to recognize users and their voices, they simultaneously reconstituted 'failures of recognition' in terms of status subordination and a 'disqualified identity' for service users.
Source: Lydia Lewis, 'Politics of recognition: what can a human rights perspective contribute to understanding users' experiences of involvement in mental health services?', Social Policy and Society, Volume 8 Issue 2
Links: Abstract
Date: 2009-Apr
The healthcare inspectorate said that National Health Service trusts in England were increasing their efforts to listen to patients and the public: but they needed to go further and ensure that these views were used to bring about change and improvement.
Source: Listening, Learning, Working Together? A national study of how well healthcare organisations engage local people in planning and improving their services, Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection (020 7448 9200)
Links: Report | CHAI press release | Pulse report
Date: 2009-Mar
A report said that primary care trusts could do more to involve the public in helping to decide whether and how to commission new health technologies that had not yet been approved by NICE – by using deliberative processes such as citizens' juries or advisory panels.
Source: Alison Chisholm, Kate Briggs and Janet Askham, Not NICE: Can PCTs engage patients and the public in commissioning new health technologies?, Picker Institute Europe (01865 208100)
Links: Report | Picker Institute press release
Date: 2009-Jan
