Strategy for personal and public involvement

Local and national policy increasingly emphasises the central role of service users and the public in shaping Health and Social Care (HSC).

This is the second edition of the HSC R&D Division’s Personal and Public Involvement (PPI) Strategy, which highlights the importance of involving patients and the public in research and outlines the progress already made in implementing PPI in research in Northern Ireland.

The strategy aims to encourage members of the public to get involved in research, and urge researchers to involve service users and the public as partners in the research process.