Patients, carers, professionals and the public working

together across the South of England

• What we have done and why • What people said • What next

Why work together?

The Tokenism Cycle

Invovlement under-valued

…

it is done badly…

and further devalued…

it makes little impact…

Adapted from Jenny Popey

Why do we work together?

A desire to make a difference and a belief

that it will

Our strategy and model of involvement

• Pilot and independent evaluation • Co-designed and delivered • Participants - equal lay and professional • Seldom heard groups • Across care, research and education • South of England defined geographies

• equal dialogue • skills to support leading together • innovative, co-produced solutions • sustainable partnerships • routine, creative use of experience

Programme Aims

Structure of

the Programme

• Joint project

Action

• Day 3 System Leadership

• Day 2 Relational Leadership

• Day 1 Personal Leadership

Structure of Programme

What people said to us

What people said to the evaluators

Majority useful and significant learning: • New skills and concepts • Revisited ideas & related to partnership working • Gained confidence • Challenged assumptions • importance of ‘bringing people along with you’

rather than ‘imposing your ideas and values on others’

• Related to people as people first and roles second • New networks, different kinds of connections

What we learnt and what next

• Values based recruitment – develop further

• Seldom heard groups – learning disabilities cohort in development

• Expectations and iterative design • Scalability – train the trainer • Embed in localities