Register to attend our workshop on 10 December 2019!

Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) is an important element of most research funding applications, but how can you get it right from the start and develop PPI activities that are valuable for you and your contributors?

This workshop brings together PPI contributors from three NIHR organisations to share their experiences of being involved in research, and to work with you to identify and avoid common mistakes.

• When: Tuesday 10 December 2019, 11.30am – 2.00pm

• Where: Theology Department, Gibson Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Oxford

• Organised by: NIHR Applied Research and Collaboration Oxford and Thames Valley, Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, Research Design Service South Central (Oxford)

This workshop is free to attend for research staff and lunch will be provided.

Spaces at the workshop are limited. To register to attend please email Polly.Kerr@phc.ox.ac.uk with the following information:

• Name
• Organisation or University department
• Where you heard about the workshop
• Dietary requirements

Draft Agenda

11.30am                      Welcome & Introduction

11.40am                      Getting it right from the start: PPI Contributor Panel

12.30pm                      Lunch

1.00pm                        Sharing best practice, avoiding mistakes: Group work

2.00pm                        Close

This workshop is being organised by the following NIHR organisations:

• Applied Research and Collaboration Oxford and Thames Valley
• Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
• Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre
• Research Design Service South Central (Oxford)

• Do you have experience of treatment resistant depression either as a patient or a carer?
• Are you interested in medical research?
• Would you like to share your experience and interest to contribute to a new research study?

We are setting up a Patient Advisory Group for a new research trial that will evaluate the drug pramipexole as add-on treatment for people with treatment resistant depression.

The Patient Advisory Group will help ensure the research is both relevant and feasible, including reviewing the trial design and helping develop information for trial participants.

Members of the Patient Advisory Group will have expenses paid plus be offered reimbursement for their time, as outlined in Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre’s payment policy.

Further details about what membership of the group will involve, and an outline of the study, can be found in the Patient Advisory Group Outline document.

We are looking for between 4-6 people to join the group, and ask that members:

• Have experience of treatment resistant depression either as a patient or a carer
• Have an interest in medical research
• Are willing to share your experience as a patient or carer, and your reflections on how someone with similar experience may respond to various aspects of the study design
• Have a willingness to listen to, and consider, different perspectives and opinions

If you would like to join the group send us your expression of interest, outlining how you meet these criteria, by email to james.griffiths@psych.ox.ac.uk .

We encourage interested people to get in touch with us as soon as possible. The deadline for expressions of interest is 13 June 2019, but if we receive a large number of contacts we may fill all the spaces in the group before this date.

https://oxfordhealthbrc.nihr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/PAX-D-Patient-Advisory-Group-Outline-FINAL.pdf