Lived Experience Peer Support Worker, MPFT’s Shropshire Eating Disorders Service, England

I’m Esther and I’m a Lived Experience Peer Support Worker within MPFT’s Shropshire Eating Disorders Service. I have been in this role for almost a year so it is all still fairly new to me, however, I have been an advocate for utilising lived experience long before I became a Peer Support Worker. A lot of my work involves co-production between service users and professionals and this is something that I am very passionate about. I believe we can learn a lot from each other, and continue to work together to change healthcare for the better.

I am proud to be part of the International Forum London 2024 on the Lived Experience and Communities panel, where the invaluable contribution that lived experience voices bring to quality improvement within healthcare is truly being recognised.