January 2013 Blog Posts (7)

As part of the Darzi Fellows programme we are running for NHS London – we have a module on coproduction. We’d really like our Fellows to visit places in London who are working on coproduction and have some good benefits to show. Would you be willing to host a visit? The date is Thursday 21^st March in the afternoon (probably about 3pm). The Darzi Fellows are clinical folk working in commissioning throughout London, and they are on a programme which supports them leading significant…

TOWARDS A CHOICE TO GIVE BACK

There is a famous story about a doctor’s surgery with a hedge outside.  I have never discovered where it actually is, but it tells us an important story about the future of choice.

The hedge is trimmed once a year in the summer and, when it is trimmed, all these rejected prescriptions fall out.  Patients come out of the door with a prescription they don’t real

ly want and shove it in the hedge. 

They are…

Cardiff Policy Café: engaging with research, policy and practice: All welcome.…

Hello everyone,

We now have a twitter account and a little logo to boot, to follow find us on twitter.

East Mids Co-pro net

@emcopronetwork

James O'Flynn

I was pleased to attend a MAC-UK open day to see firsthand the impact of the innovative North London mental health charity about which I had heard so much. Beginning as ‘Music and Change’ in 2008, MAC-UK engages some of the UK’s most excluded and deprived young people in therapeutic relationships that transform their mental wellbeing and make them far less likely to offend. Their target audience for…

Islington Council co-assess their youth provision with young people. A great adjunct to a co-produced service. It makes sense to evaluate  together that which you achieve together.

Check this out:

Islington Council's Co-produced Quality Assessment Framework for Youth Provision

An example of a tool for co-assessing services…

Happy New Year, co-production practitioners and friends!

We've been finding this round up of evidence by Think Local Act Personal very helpful. It has useful stats to help practitioners make the case for co-production. You can find it in our resources section and below.

Building Community Capacity: Evidence,…