Patient and Public Involvement

Get involved

If you would like to find out more about how you can get involved, please email us at peolc-researchsw@bristol.ac.uk

We are committed to involving patients, patients’ families, and the wider public in our research. Your involvement helps our research make a difference.

We need your help to make sure the needs and experiences of patients and patients’ families are represented in our research. We want to invite people with relevant experience or interest in palliative care to:

Share their views and experiences of care in advanced illness and at the end of life
Offer advice on how best to include other patients, patients’ families and the wider public in our research
Advise on project documents
Help ensure our research is carried out in a respectful way
Help us in sharing our research findings with the public

Some of our PPI members

Penny
I followed a path to patient and public involvement (PPI) that started with a science outreach talk in a pub, and continued on to volunteering with a university and primary health care research group’s public involvement project about improving end of life care.
Sue
Jean
Patient and Public Involvement is an essential part of healthcare research proposals and projects. It allows patients, carers and those who know what it is like to be on the receiving end of care to influence how it will be provided in the future. I have a particular interest in end of life care and the importance of how prognosis is conveyed to patients and families.
Karen
I decided to become involved with PPI when I retired after a friend mentioned it to me - it sounded like something that I would be interested in. I have a family member that has a deteriorating health condition and is coming towards the end of their life. I feel my role is as 'the person on the streets'. I hope that my views and experience help to keep everything in plain language that we can all understand and that this will encourage people to participate in this research.
Christina