The Institute of Mental Health launches the new CPD accredited training programme for Patient and Public Involvement (PPI). This programme has been designed to increase knowledge of active researchers and colleagues in health and care research and provide time for you to engage and build your collective confidence in a shared learning space.

Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) has exploded within research conversations over the last decade and now funders, research leads, institutions and patient groups expect to see genuine, well thought out Patient and Public Involvement within health and care research. This programme has been designed to help you consider and embed quality PPI within your systems so you can incorporate living experiences, peer researchers and patient and public contributors to improve relevance, acceptability and accessibility of your health and care research.

Who is the course for?

This programme is aimed at anyone who feels they need to begin or develop their early Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) knowledge and are looking for detailed learning & development in this area of their work.

The programme considers the experience of PPI from the perspective of researchers delivering what is asked of them. From initial understanding through to exploring detailed scenarios and working with compassion and understanding in their work.

If you’re not sure if this course is for you then we’d love to hear from you and we can talk about some of the content, feasibility for your own context and look at alternative options for your progress in this area.

Information about the course:

• Our training programme consists of five online 2-hour sessions over a 5-week period with topic specific sessions each week.
• The programme has a strong focus on practical learning outcomes, peer connections and opportunities to engage with the content of the programme in the context of your own work.
• Each programme cohort will have a maximum occupancy of 12 participants to allow for learning and networking with others throughout the programme
• One session within the programme will be dedicated to smaller group learning and exploration of your own work and your own ambitions for PPIE.
• The programme is costed at £250 per participant and includes 10 hours live learning, post session self-guided learning and an end of programme handbook.
• This programme is equivalent to 10 live learning CPD hours as a minimum for your own professional development.
• The programme is delivered online by the Institute of Mental Health using Microsoft Teams

The programme sessions are delivered live on the following dates:

• Session 1: Wednesday 5th March
• Session 2: Wednesday 12th March
• Session 3: Wednesday 19th March
• Session 4: Wednesday 26th March or Friday 28th March
  This session will be delivered as a collaborative, smaller group session to allow for time and space for training participants to develop in their own subject and topics. As this will involve smaller groups, we will split the participant group over 3 smaller group sessions. We will confirm which date / session to the participants on confirmation of your place on the training.
• Session 5: Wednesday 2nd April 

How to secure your place:

If you would like to be considered for the programme beginning in March 2025 or if you’d like to be informed of future dates on the next cohort:

Please complete your details on this form

Any questions?

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