Here are four exceptionally useful guides to ensuring good public and patient involvement and engagement in the new local NHS structures such as Healthwatch, CCGs etc.

Get smart about engagement series introduction

Engagement for commissioning success

Working with lay members and patient representatives

Working with LINks and local HealthWatch

My sense is that CCGs are taking very different approaches to this agenda – which has both strengths as well as weaknesses – but these might help to ensure some consistency as regards core values and principles. Spread far and wide please.

From NHS Networks.

We now need one for research!  Or, at the very least, for the next versions of these to address research.