Co-production is one of the pillars of best practice in health and social care and it has been at the core of our work here at the Coalition for Personalised Care (C4PC) for many years.
This briefing for local authorities, charities and organisations that support people who use services and their carers.
The ladder describes a series of steps towards co-production in health and social care. It supports greater understanding of the various stages of access and inclusion before full co-production is achieved. Co-production operates at many levels: strategic, service design and development and individual.
Co-production can be a slippery concept to grasp because it has often been muddled up with other types of participation. In order to explain co-production, drawing on our extensive experience, we’ve developed a new definition, new graphics and explanations of both what it relies on and what it can achieve.
This resource is a summary of information and resources which were shared during our ‘Three Rs of Co-production’ workshop series in Oct-Nov 2022.
In this session, research lead at Disability Rights UK Evan Odell takes you through the definition and principles of co-production and the meaning behind them.
View how Mixed Ability illustrates in sport & physical activity takes co-production a step further.
Report from the Lottery Community Fund that draws on the experience of the Fulfilling Lives programme to provide practical guidance and learning on how to do coproduction well.
From all of this work we have endeavoured to create a policy which at its heart has a flexible and person-centred approach.
Co-production in practice NHS England are leading work to ensure co-production is embedded across the NHS and becomes the default position for improving care. In October 2021, they funded 10 system-wide organisations to use a co-production approach to improve services
What needed improving? The rates of cancer in the East Coast are high so Lincolnshire Integrated Care System (ICS) wanted to ensure the voices of people living in this region were heard and improvements could be made.
