Patient and Public Involvement Engagement and Participation (PPIEP)

People with lived experience of mental health conditions are at the heart of everything that we do at the NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC) Mission.

Our work with patients and the public is channelled through our workstreams and two demonstrator sites in Birmingham and Liverpool.

People with experience of a mental health condition, service users and members of the public can all help to improve research into mental health.

Terry Bryant, service user and carer representative, said:

“Research to gain a greater understanding of the social structures around patients/service users to identify the most effective points of intervention and support, such as carers, family members, neighbours, community, etc., can be instrumental in designing and delivering the best possible care.”

Involving people affected by mental health conditions enables a lived experience and researcher partnership across the MH-TRC Mission. This means the expertise that people with mental health conditions can be used to influence research and innovation decisions within the MH-TRC Mission.