Purpose – Patient-centred care and patient involvement are increasingly central concepts in health policy in the UK and elsewhere. However, there is little consensus regarding their definition or how to achieve “patient-centred” care in everyday practice or how to involve patients in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report the findings from an evaluation project conducted to investigate the impact of two staff engagement programmes introduced to four National Health Service (NHS) hospital Trusts in England. It seeks to examine this development in the context of...

This article reports the activities undertaken to develop co-production in health research. It is a response to the call for more discussion of the issue made in an earlier issue of this journal. Consideration of the practicalities of undertaking research in this way is an important contribution...