Co-production and strengths-based practice: Leaders' Briefing

Co-production and strengths-based practice: Leaders' Briefing
Research in Practice 2 July 2020

• This briefing will give an overview of co-production from the basic theory to how it can work in organisations on all levels, considering its importance for people who use services, practitioners, service providers and commissioners. This will be considered through a strength-based lens, and this briefing will focus on how co-production can support outcomes focused, person-centred approaches to social care.

A map of resources for co-producing research in health and social care.

A map of resources for co-producing research in health and social care. 
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) ARC West and People in Health West of England; University of Bristol and University of West of England. Version 1.2, May 2020.

• A guide for researchers, members of the public and health and social care practitioners.

Microfunding, co-production and community development

Changing a place: Microfunding, co-production and community development
Ambition for Ageing January 2020

• A suite of documents looking at the conditions needed to get microfunding right. The documents draw on its five years of delivering microfunding to highlight areas of success, note challenges and share learning for those who may want to implement similar practices.

Co-production Oxfordshire’s Working Together – Handbook

Co-production Oxfordshire’s Working Together – Handbook
Oxfordshire County Council 2019

• As part of its co-production programme OCC has compiled a handbook for beginners, with general guidance looking at what co-production is, stages involved and examples.

Use and reporting of experience-based codesign studies in the healthcare setting: a systematic review

Use and reporting of experience-based codesign studies in the healthcare setting: a systematic review
BMJ Quality & Safety 23 September 2019. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2019-009570

• A systematic review identified 20 studies on the use (structure, process and outcomes) and reporting of Experience-based codesign (EBCD) in health service improvement activities. It found that there is variation in the use of EBCD, with many studies eliminating or modifying some EBCD stages, and there is no consistency in reporting. 

Abstract

Five lessons for co-designing digital health technologies

Five lessons for co-designing digital health technologies
NESTA 19 September 2019

• Understanding how to effectively involve users in the design of new digital health technologies to ensure they are useful and adopted lessons for co-designing digital health technologies. Lessons from six digital health projects in Scotland that are looking to make data available and useful to citizens to help them lead healthier and more independent lives:
• Working in partnership gives results
• Consider different methods for different types of users
• Go where your users are
• Avoid “focus group fatigue”
• Don’t forget the input of the health professionals

Making events and meetings accessible

Making events and meetings accessible
SCIE updated August 2019

• This web resource is for anyone who is organising an event and wants to make it accessible. It is a practical handbook to make any event – whatever the size, whoever the participants – inclusive, so that everyone can take part in the way that best suits them.

How to work together to achieve better joined-up care

How to work together to achieve better joined-up care
SCIE August 2019

• This guide focuses on supporting people to co-produce and co-deliver joined-up services across health, social care and other public services. In particular, it looks at how the use of the skills, knowledge and resources of individuals, communities and the workforce can support more integrated care. It can be used by anyone working to achieve better joined-up services at a local level including Better Care or integration leads, as well as individual partners.

The long road to patient co-production in telehealth services

The long road to patient co-production in telehealth services
BMJ 2019;366:l4770 25 July 2019 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l4770

• A case study of the NHS Near Me service, which offers online consultations to remote communities in Scotland, and how patients were involved in its development.

Co-production - SCIE resources

Co-production
SCIE

• Co-production training and resources for health and social care managers commissioners, frontline practitioners, people who use services and carers. Including:
• What it is and how to do it: Resources to define co-production, show it in action and explain how it works in practice to improve services.
• Supporting co-production: Practical examples of how co-production, user involvement and participation can help make health and social care services work better.
• Co-production with different groups : Resources to show how co-production of health and social care services with different groups can help improve the quality of care.
• Co-production and advocacy: Strengthening the voice of people who use services and their carers.

Implementing and evaluating co-design

Implementing and evaluating co-design
New Philanthropy Capital 1 July 2019

• Co-design is when an organisation and its stakeholders work together to design or rethink a service. As an approach it sits midway between consultation and fully user-led projects.
• This toolkit explores what co-design is, why it matters and outlines a five-stage process for planning and implementing the co-design of products or services. The five stages cover: setting up - engaging participants; discovery - findings new insights that could influence the co-design process; defining - define the specific problem to be addressed; developing - develop and refine solutions; and delivery. For each stage, the toolkit includes case studies, tips and tools. 
• The toolkit also explores how evaluate and assess the outcomes of your co-design and the quality of your processes, and how to review and learn from the data. It is designed for service delivery organisations, but the principles apply to any organisation who want to improve its co-design.

Working Well Together - co-production in mental health commissioning

Working Well Together
Royal College of Psychiatrists May 2019

• A service that has been commissioned based on the principles of co-production is more likely to be cost-effective, responsive and have high satisfaction and health outcome rates from people using it. This resource provides the evidence and tools to enable co-production in mental health commissioning. 
• Six key principles were selected as fundamental to supporting co-production in mental health commissioning, based on people’s views and experiences.

The many shades of co-produced evidence

The many shades of co-produced evidence
Carnegie Trust February 2019

• The purpose of the paper is to tease out challenges and opportunities around co-producing evidence appropriate to participatory social policy and practice, and increasing people’s control within communities and services.

Participation: its impact on services and the people who use them

Participation: its impact on services and the people who use them
IRISS 31 January 2019
This review identifies the evidence behind using participation approaches and its impart on health or economic outcomes where participation is an umbrella term for any activity where the general public are involved in developing health and social care services. Generally, it appears that co-production methods such as peer support, volunteering and co-delivery of services were beneficial, particularly for more efficient use of services and cost savings.

Key points

Paying people who receive benefits – Co-production and participation

Paying people who receive benefits – Co-production and participation
SCIE January 2019

• This At a glance briefing looks at benefit changes that can make it easier for people who use services and carers to take part in meetings, consultations, research, events and connected activities.