Impact
Seek improvement by identifying and sharing the difference that public involvement makes to research.
Understand the changes, benefits and learning gained from the insights and experiences of patients, carers and the public.
Meeting the standard
The questions below may help you reflect on and decide if you meet the standard:
Are the public involved in deciding what the assessment of impact should focus on, and the approach to take?
Is it clear what information to collect to help assess impact, including who has been involved and how?
Are there processes in place to help reflect on public involvement?
Are the changes, benefits and learning resulting from public involvement acted on?
What people said about this standard:
“We approached this by carrying out an assessment from the patients’ perspective of their experience of being involved in implementing the standards focusing on what was good/ not so good/ what should happen next.”
“Putting the Standards into practice has resulted in some changes to our practice …but more importantly, enabled reflection on our practice and our ambitions to improve”
