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In the UK, patient and public involvement is acknowledged in key pieces of legislation on healthcare such as the Health and Social Care Act and the NHS Constitution. [23] The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), a research funder in England, is considered a pioneer in the development and implementation of PPI. [33]
The 2002 Act created an independent Patient and Public Involvement Forum (PPIF) for each PCT and NHS trust. The duty to involve the public had been enshrined in the Health and Social Care Act 2001. [2] The PPIFs replaced the community health councils created in 1974 The PPIFs worked to standards set by the Commission for Patient and Public ...
They replaced the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (CPPIH) [1] and patient and public involvement forums [2] and existed in every local authority area with a responsibility for NHS health care and social services. There were 151 LINks and the Government committed £84 million in funding to them until March 2011. [3]
[6] and patient and public involvement forums [7] The guidance for these organisations was delivered to councils in 2003. [8] The act provided for primary care trusts (PCTs) and NHS trusts to be designated as care trusts in cases where they had local authority health-related functions delegated to them by agreement. [9]
Professor Sir Stephen Powis, national medical director for the NHS in England, said: “The introduction of Martha’s Rule represents one of the most important changes to patient care in recent ...
Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health which ran patients' forums (2003-2008) was replaced 151 local involvement networks (2008-2013) Clinical commissioning group under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 , originally 211 CCGs, but shrinking with mergers.
Public involvement (PI, formerly PPI, for Public and Patients' Involvement), in the context of health and care research, is the term for working with lay people (members of the general public, including patients and those close to them) as volunteers in influencing and shaping research. [1]
Healthwatch is the latest reorganisation of arrangements to involve patients and the public in the running of the NHS in England. Community Health Councils (CHC) were established in 1974 and abolished in 2003 to be replaced by Public and Patient Involvement Forums [4] run by the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health.