PUTTING PARTICIPATION INTO ACTION
Over the past year, New Citizen Project has been working with five health and care teams across West Yorkshire, exploring what it takes for an Integrated Care Board (ICB) and the wider Integrated Care System (ICS) to support and enable greater use of co-production approaches.
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Through a series of workshops, individual and peer coaching, we equipped teams with a range of tools and methodologies. The programme resulted in teams taking participatory approaches to a variety of health and care projects - from service redesign, to capital projects, to reducing health inequities. Along the way, we pooled learnings and supported teams with their projects.
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In this report, we share more about:
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the projects that have been undertaken as part of this work;
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our collective learnings on what people working across health and care need in order to adopt more participatory approaches, and;
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recommendations for how different organisations in the system might support their staff to work in partnership with people and communities, and across health and care partners.
In order to work more meaningfully with people and communities, practitioners and their teams need to build...
Understanding
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of what co-production is (and isn’t), and its value.
Confidence
in what it looks like and the tools and practices that can support it.
Capacity
having the necessary time, resources, skills and mindsets.
Commitment
feeling encouraged, supported and accountable to do it.