Service User Panel Workshop on Meaningful Involvement

On Tuesday 5 May National Voices hosted its first event for its newly-established Service User Panel. The Panel is made up of nominated representatives from member organisations who will input into National Voices' work and have the opportunity to participate in external events to feed in the patient or carer perspective to the health and social care debate.

Sixteen individuals from the panel attended the workshop, entitled ‘Involvement – what does it mean to me?’, held at NCVO. The participants shared their experience of involvement in health and social care, the barriers that can prevent meaningful service user involvement, as well as considerations of how National Voices can achieve meaningful involvement in its work. The event was enjoyed by all and the informative intelligence collected from group discussions has been compiled into a report, which you can view by clicking here.