How to recruit Patient and Public Partners (PPP)

In summary, Patient and Public Partners play a vital role in shaping health services, promoting transparency, and ensuring that services reflect the insight of the people that use them and the community.

Having Patient and Public Partners enriches a workstream or project. Some key positives are:

• Learning from Lived Experience: Patient and Public Partners provide valuable insights based on their real-world encounters with healthcare systems. These experiences and insight can be learnt from and fed into service improvements and address gaps or challenges.
• Increased Trust: When Patient and Public Partners are actively engaged, it increases trust between healthcare providers and the community. Transparency and collaboration build confidence.
• Capacity Building: This participation not only enriches decision-making and service development but also empowers individuals to take an active role in shaping health services.
• Balancing Evidence: While evidence-based approaches are essential, Patient and Public Partners involvement ensures that lived experiences and community needs are considered alongside other forms of evidence. This balance leads to more comprehensive and effective decision making and service development.
• Co-production – Patient and Public Partners are a key part of co-producing and co-designing service change and development. If you would like to know more about Co-production, please visit our Co-production Framework.

With the help and input from Patient and Public Partners the Joined Up Care Derbyshire Engagement Team have started to put together some guidance and templates to support people in the recruitment of Patient and Public Partners.

All these templates and guidance needs to be adapted to what works best for you workstream and the Patient and Public Partners in them. If you would like any further advice, please contact the Engagement Team on: ddicb.engagement@nhs.net