Transforming Participation in Health and Care: Guidance for Commissioners

Transforming Participation in Health and Care has been developed by NHS England with a wide range of stakeholders and partners to support commissioners to improve individual and public participation and to better understand and respond to the needs of the communities they serve.

The guide aims to help clinical commissioning groups and other commissioners of health and care services to involve patients and carers in decisions relating to care and treatment, and the public in commissioning processes and decisions.

The guide will also be of interest to people providing health and care services; people providing support to commissioners, patients and carers, VCS organisations with an interest in patient and public participation, and health and wellbeing boards.

To download the guidance visit www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/trans-part-hc-guid1.pdf.

To read Tim Kelsey, NHS England’s National Director for Patients and Information, thoughts on the guidance visit www.england.nhs.uk/2013/09/25/tim-kelsey-2.