Press Release
CPPIH gives guarded welcome to PPI Resource Centre
26 May 2006
Sharon Grant, Chair of the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (CPPIH) gave a guarded welcome to the Department of Health’s announcement of the new Patient and Public Involvement Resource Centre.
She commented:
“It takes two to have a conversation. While it's good that the NHS will be getting better at talking to the public, it’s the public’s priorities that must be centre stage, and we need a proper system to make sure they aren’t shouted down.
Effective Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) must be a partnership between those who deliver NHS services and the public. It doesn’t matter how many different techniques the NHS may use to try to involve patients, they will fail if they can’t or won’t hear what patients and the public are saying.
Our organisation, a national voice for patients and the public throughout England is to be abolished next year, and the future of local PPI Forums is uncertain. No replacement arrangements have yet been announced. We hope that Ministers will now move urgently to ensure a powerful local and national voice for the public in health for the future.”
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