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Public involvement can appear like a foreign country to colleagues. Let’s...
This time last week I was in France eating baguette and cheese and drinking red wine. Today it’s a tuna sandwich and packet of Hula Hoops. Yes, like many others in the UK’s version of France’s ‘La...
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‘How many patients does it take to change a lightbulb?’ Time to get serious...
Question: How many patients does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: No one knows, they are so rarely asked. The irritating thing is that even when patients are asked to change a lightbulb, they are...
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There is indeed method in our ‘madness’– being METHODICAL about public...
Polonius: [Aside] Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 193–206 If you are in some way connected to public involvement in health research then you get used to ‘the...
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Are you the next Director of INVOLVE?
A Happy New Year to you all. Here’s to your very good health and much happiness in 2016. I am no futurologist so my predictions for public involvement in health research over the next 12 months should...
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Blog: Have you ever knowingly been oversold PPI in research? Then, there’s...
I didn’t think so. Do you get those nagging calls about PPI? It’s usually early evening. Sometimes it is a recorded voice message. Sometimes a text. Very occasionally it is a real person from the...
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Top-tips for involving young people in research and other brilliant resources...
Is it me or is 2016 ‘full-on’ or what? It is as if someone has put something in our water supply. It’s nearly February already. My good colleagues in public involvement are hitting the sort of...
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Blog news: Life sciences giants join forces to promote young people’s...
Some of the leading life sciences organisations in the UK have joined forces to issue a ‘statement of aspiration’ about the involvement of young people in research saying: ‘Collaboration between young...
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Lancet study puts NIHR top of the intl league table for health research in...
Yesterday the Lancet published a study by Mona Nasser, Mike Clarke, Iain Chalmers and others looking at how well eleven international research founders are doing to reduce waste in research. This...
View ArticleI’m pro co-pro are you? The march of co-production continues – here’s the...
Two blogs in one day. Blimey. I’ll be giving away small packets of face cream or toys with the next issue at this rate. Someone asked me recently whether co-production was going to be the only thing...
View ArticleNew guidance on what it is to be a public co-applicant in research launched...
According to the recent national survey of people's experiences of being involved in National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)*, one in five patients, carers and members of the public told us they...
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