The Making It Real statements are based on principles and values of personalisation and community-based support, including the five mentioned in this blog. But unless we change the language that dominates our practice, we’ll never make these principles and values real.

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.

We are excited to announce the release of a new video: Developing a culture of co-production.

To me, strategic co-production is bringing the collective lived experience voice of the wider population to a time and place where it can be equally considered alongside other key stakeholders.

Introducing a new Coalition for Personalised Care (C4PC) Partner: Co-production Works. Co-production Works supports organisations to work in co-production with people who use services and carers.

Today the BBC has highlighted an issue that poses huge challenges to both our NHS but also the day-to-day existence of one in four people in the population suffer from chronic pain.