This paper aims to provide an example of patient-led co-production.
Using the six principles of co-production to frame the activities undertaken during the author’s relationship with a community mental health nurse.
The paper describes the benefit of a collaborative support group for the three lived experienced participants and a mental health nurse.
Small support groups like the one described in this paper can be established effectively through the process of co-production between people with lived experience and mental health professionals working in partnership.
Co-production is usually used with groups of stakeholders working together in an equitable way to design or deliver a new service; this paper, however, seeks to demonstrate how the process can be effectively used when the project is patient-led within the context of a therapeutic relationship.
