The terms user involvement, engagement, co-option and consultation are often used interchangeably, but may refer to different things. More recently ideas of services - or research - being ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Within the context of traditional data processing, the MIS literature has devoted considerable attention to the relationship between user ...

Community Care’s decision to publish a service user issue is a cheering sign of the times. User involvement and service users are now an essential part of the social care and health process. Not only ...

A groundbreaking study could help to revolutionise the way in which mental health service users and their carers plan their care. The research is a collaboration between The University of Nottingham's ...

People's perceptions of health care have come a long way since the days when many families kept money in the 'jar on the mantelpiece' to pay for a consultation with a doctor (Tony Blair, in the ...

Service-user involvement has huge potential benefits. As consumers of health services, we all have something legitimate to say about lateness, tatty buildings, staff attitudes and the like. In ...

Current guidance on research governance states, for example, that public involvement should exist at every stage of research where appropriate. By being expert witness to their own illness or health ...

A groundbreaking study could help to revolutionise the way in which mental health service users and their carers plan their care. The research is a collaboration between The University of Nottingham's ...