About patient involvement

Patient Public Involvement Strategy:
“No Decision About Me Without Me” – Andrew Lansley 2010

The Secretary of State for Health in the White Paper ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’ (DH 2010) states:

“We will put patients at the heart of the NHS, through an information revolution and greater choice and control.

This supports the patients’ right, detailed in the ‘NHS Constitution for England’ (DH 2009), to be involved directly or through representatives in the planning of healthcare services, the development and consideration of proposals for changes in the way those services are provided, and the decisions to be made affecting the provision of those services.

The Trust is committed to making decisions that reflect the needs, priorities and aspirations of the local population. In order to do this the Trust will engage openly and honestly with patients, their relatives and carers, and the public. In doing this the Trust will ensure that its involvement processes are as inclusive as is practicable and will ensure that ‘hard to reach’ groups and those groups who are unable to advocate for themselves are included.”