.../methodology/approach – In keeping with the government research agenda, a survey was distributed to patient and public involvement in research volunteers and other stakeholders in the East Midlands region. In total, 251 useful returns were statistically analysed using descriptive and frequency based...

... often think about how I would have liked to have known my grandparents as an adult, to ask these important questions. Mental health services Participation Discrimination Intergenerational Partnership working Involvement The “geriatric at 65” and the “young hooded hooligan”, the “nutcase...

... Service user research Involvement Bipolar Mental health USER PARTICIPATION When it pays to be bipolar the world of service user research Debbie Mayes Service User Researcher, Lancaster University Abstract My name is Debbie Mayes and I am writing as someone with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder who...

...Sasha Bhat; Kulvinder Kaur; Shabana Kauser In this article, Sasha Bhat describes a project in Bradford set up to improve mental health services by researching and designing better systems for involving black and minority ethnic (BME) communities in commissioning. Two members of the project...