Supplementary evidence submitted by the
Department of Health (PPI 01D)
Thank you for your note. To confirm, the NHS
Centre for Involvement is delivering a three-year contract which
commenced in June 2006. It will receive £2 million per year
for the period of contract.
Its role is to promote and support patient and
public involvement in the NHS. It will do this principally by
providing advice, guidance and information on PPI to NHS organisations.
It will collect good practice and make this generally available
to all those concerned with a stronger voice for patients and
the public.
It will additionally provide advice and guidance
to local involvement networks. It will act as a repository for
good practice and make available ideas and approaches for how
LINks can go about their work as effectively as possible.
I do not think this role could be described
as a monitoring role but clearly there will be a degree of evaluation
of practice to enable it to determine whether that practice is
good or not.
The NHS Centre for Involvement is fully involved
in the work to support the early adopter projects. It will be
carrying out the evaluation of those projects, drawing on lessons
learnt and making recommendations for inclusion in guidance to
be produced for LINks.
I hope this is helpful. Please ring me if you
require further information.
Meredith Vivian
Department of Health
8 March 2007
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