Friday 12 Apr | 13:15-14:30

Format: Workshop
Stream: Safety
Content filters: Co-presented with patients, service users or carers

In this session, delegates will learn about innovations in co-producing national patient safety policy, to support timely, evidence-based, responsive policy development. Using examples from across two patient safety policy teams – policy implementation, and patient safety independent investigations – this session will explore collaborative working with academic researchers and patient advocates, to co-produce new patient safety policy. Examples will be drawn from the Learn Together programme (supporting family involvement in incident investigations), a novel Citizens’ Panel approach in the Response study (evaluating the new national incident response policy in England), and work exploring independent investigations of mental health homicides. Discussion will be facilitated by patient advocates, policy-makers and researchers.

As a result of this session, participants will be able to:

• Understand advances in methods for co-producing safety policy in the English NHS


• Learn from the experiences of co-producing policy from patient advocates, researchers and policy-makers


• Explore the benefits and challenges of this approach, and what foundations and resources need to be in place to make it work

Angela King Patient Advocate

Jane O’Hara University of Cambridge, England

Tracey Herlihey NHS England, England

Chelsea Gilsenan NHS England, England

Gemma Louch University of Leeds, England

Lauren Ramsay University of Leeds, England

Penny Phillips Patient Advocate