WHAT DIFFERENCE WILL IT MAKE?? Co-production will: empower both staff and patients to become cocreators in health services deliver an improved patient experience helps to improve identified health outcomes develop and grow patient strength and abilities and support them in co-creation of health recognise that a lived experience is essential for recovery-focused mental health services to become a reality place the individual at the heart of recovery and recognise the value of experinential knowledge focus on cultural change through recoveryfocussed education and recovery-orientated practice. require a move away from the traditional 'us ' and 'them' divisions that have existed between individuals and practitioners and instead create a requires a collaborative approach that is based on equal but very different types of expertise and skill sharing.
THE CO-PRODUCTION APPROACH Co-production is an approach based upon dialogue. By working together groups of experts by experience and professionals can co-produce every stage of a project, with the focus being on improving service delivery
'By role-modelling co-production, by working truly together, building trusting relationships with people who provide our care, we can enable change together... I am proof that co-production changes lives'
(Iris Benson MNE, Mersey Care Foundation Tust)
WHAT IS CO-PRODUCTION??