Patient and Public Involvement
What is Patient and Public Involvement in Research?
Patient and public involvement (PPI) in research is an active partnership between patients or members of the public and researchers. We work together to make sure the research we do is relevant and useful to the community we serve. It is not simply people taking part in research studies.
PPI collaborators include patients, potential patients, carers and people who use health services as well as people from organisations that represent people who use services.
Why is it important?
PPI contributors can make a difference to health research by:
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identifying new topics for research and ensuring that topics are relevant to patients, carers and members of the public.
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making sure that researchers ask the right questions and in a way that the public understand.
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keeping the research on track so that it stays relevant.
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making sure the people being researched are approached in the right way.
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improving the quality of the research by adding another point of view to the design and way that the research is carried out.
Understanding the lived experience of critical illness is essential to our work and that of the wider critical care research community.
We aim to involve PPI collaborators throughout all phases of our research and to continually improve our PPI processes.
Who are the PPI representatives for this project?
Lay Co-applicant: Susanna Stanford, Zenab Barry
Service Users: Jayde Edwards, Emma Crookes, Sadia Haqnawaz