Role of public involvement in the Royal College of Physicians' Future Hospitals healthcare improvement programme: an evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The Royal College of Physician's (RCP) Future Hospital Programme (FHP) set out a blueprint for a radical new model of care that put patient experience centre stage. This paper reports on the results of an independent evaluation of the FHP and focuses on the role public patient involvement (PPI) played in these projects. The paper explores the perceptions and experiences of those involved in the FHP of how PPI was operationalised in this context, and develops an 'ex-post' programme theory of PPI in the FHP. We conclude by assessing the benefits and challenges of this work.

Setting

Secondary care. The FHP consisted of eight clinician-led healthcare improvement hospital development sites with two phases.

Participants

Development site clinical teams, patient re

SUBMITTER: Frith L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6747633 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature