Weekdays 09:30 - 17:00
As part of our project with Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board this workshop explores how GP practice patient groups and staff can use different methods of communication to communicate more effectively. Read more
Working with patients, national and local organisations, health and care thought leaders, we've identified the six key principles of patient partnership. Read more
This webinar brought together patients from three of our focus groups with the companies that sponsored the projects to hear directly from them about working with the Patients Association. Read more
Patients, carers, and partners from the English NHS joined us to talk about how the health system is partnering with patients during patient partnership week. Watch the webinar. Read more
Each year we work in partnership with patients and carers to ensure the patient voice is heard and acted on.
Through project work, surveys, and presenting alongside the Patients Association at meetings, we offer patients and carers a range of ways to work with us.
On this page you can find examples of past work and how we work with patients, carers and all our members.
Our lived experience advisory panel, Patient Voices Panel, has brought together 10 patients from different backgrounds who meet to learn and discuss their experiences of healthcare. The panel is run as under Deep Democracy principles. In this article, we explain how Deep Democracy supports patient partnership and shared decision making. Read more
The Patients Association has policies to ensure everyone is empowered to participate in the activities we run. We also have a policy on how we involve patients in our work. You can read them here. Read more
We work with NHS Benchmarking on the national CVDPREVENT audit and have established a 35-patient panel to support the audit. The panel includes patients from all seven English NHS regions and brings the patient and carer perspectives to the audit. The goal of CVDPREVENT is to use data to understand how many patients are potentially undiagnosed, or under or over treated. The patient panel helps keep the audit patient-centred, and advises on information production. Read more