We are looking for a member of the public with lived experience of foster care to review an application looking at ways to improve outcomes for children in care. The review is completed through our online system and will involve reading a paper focusing on the plain English summary and PPI sections. It is available to review and would ideally be completed within 2 weeks. If you are interested, please send details of your experience.

Are you interested in being part of a research project as a Patient and Public Involvement co-applicant? We are looking for someone with lived experience of colonoscopy to be a part of the ‘I-SPACE’ project team. This is a decarbonisation project looking to evaluate the environmental impact and cost/resource use of the large bowel testing pathway, particularly colonoscopy and capsule colonoscopy (pill camera test).

Who is eligible to join?
Anyone with lived experience of healthcare as a patient, carer or family member

What is involved?
To review the relevance and importance of the research question, outcome measures while also evaluating how patient and public involvement is reported.

Patient and public reviewers receive £50 or a journal subscription for completing each review

We want to speak to older adults who broke their hip following a fall, or their carers. We are particularly interested in speaking to those who live outside of London.

We are interested in hearing what happened after older adults went home from hospital. We want to hear about any care you had in another hospital, at a clinic, or at home, to help with recovery. This care might have included physiotherapy, occupational therapy, or other healthcare professionals.

We need patients to help develop a single-item scale to measure empathy in healthcare. This will involve taking part in one cognitive interview (where you are given a questionnaire and asked to talk through the mental process involved in answering each question). The interview can take place face-to-face at the University of Leicester or online via Microsoft Teams. It will last no longer than 30 minutes. With your permission, we will audio-record your interview. It will then be anonymised.

The BEACON Study looks at the causes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We are looking for the following groups to join our Working Group:
– Cigarette smokers aged 18-45 years old
– People with COPD or their carers

By joining, you will meet researchers from the study to give feedback on our research. All meetings will be online.

You will be paid £30/hour for attending a meeting.

Sign up above by clicking on ‘Link to organisation’ or copy and paste the following in a web browser: https://imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0qvRGmmjsYDCgJw

We are looking for women to take part in Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) sessions to help develop a new, non-hormonal, long-acting reversible contraceptive device for women.

Your insights will help us design a device that meets the needs of diverse women and ensures a patient-centered approach. We are looking for women with diverse perspectives, including sexually active women of childbearing age, women with long term health conditions such as cancer or cardiovascular diseases.

55,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with prostate cancer and 12,000 die from the disease each year. It is more common in Black men than White or Asian men. Diagnosing aggressive types of prostate cancer earlier could help people live longer, healthier lives. This project aims to improve the quality of care for hundreds of thousands of people tested for Prostate Specific Antigen (or PSA for short) in general practice. We will focus on improving how we pick up aggressive prostate cancer.

Nursing Associates are clinicians who work in the NHS as part of the wider nursing team. Our study will explore patients’ and the public’s perceptions and experiences of nursing associates (NA’s) in GP practices, to better understand service users’ views of how NA’s work in GP practices and how they can help improve patient access to GP services.

Our project aims to review and discuss various aspects of our study and its process.

We had one meeting last year. We are seeking 4 individuals who:

Enjoy sharing their thoughts and giving advice.
Have lived experience of lower back pain.
Can commit to 3 online meetings over the course of two years.
Happy to speak with researchers, review papers and provide feedback as needed.