Public Partnership Training Programme – Resource Bank
A bank of training, resources and policies to complement the Public Partnership Training Programme.
Health Literacy
Health literacy training aimed at all, by NHS North East and North Cumbria in three bitesize videos.
The sessions are:
Oliver McGowan Autism Training
The training is named after Oliver McGowan. Oliver was a young man whose death shone a light on the need for health and social care staff to have better skills, knowledge and understanding of the needs for autistic people and people with a learning disability. The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism is the government’s preferred and recommended training for health and social care staff.
This training is provided by the NHS and for NHS staff.
The training can be accessed here.
UCL BRC PPI Training (5 workshops)
The BRC provides regular PPIE training sessions for researchers. The award-winning sessions build up researchers’ skills and confidence in involving lay people in activities, including setting research priorities and designing protocols.
This training is provided by UCLH Biomedical Research Centre and for BRC infrastructure staff.
The training can be accessed here.
RIPPLES: A Framework for Rapid Involvement of Patients and the Public in Evidence Synthesis
In this webinar NIHR Innovation Observatory introduce their new RIPPLES framework.
RIPPLES was created as a simple, practical framework and toolkit to help researchers carrying out rapid evidence synthesis to embed patient and public involvement in their work. The resources contain guidance and useful tips on how to implement the framework, as well as a handy worksheet to help plan involvement within rapid evidence synthesis projects.
In this recording you can find out more about how RIPPLES can help and how the resource was created.
This training can be accessed here.
Creating Connections Network and Resources
A range of resources on PPIE for all audiences.
The resources can be accessed here.
Community Engagement Toolkit
Provided by Creating Connections, this toolkit is aimed at supporting researchers who are developing grant applications with, and for, diverse communities. It has evolved from what our community partners in the Reaching Out Projects taught us about how they would like researchers to engage with them to build sustainable community relationships. We have transferred their knowledge and experience to the world of health and social care research into ten guiding principles.
The toolkit can be accessed here.
North East and North Cumbria VCSE Research Partnerships
The VCSE Research Partnerships support at VONNE aims to provide a single point of contact for researchers and VCSE organisations who are interested in collaborating on health and care-focussed research. This work will aim to: support partners to connect and develop ways of working together based on reciprocity and sustainability, and build capacity for partnerships by developing shared expectations and enhancing skills and knowledge.
The resource can be accessed here.
NHS VCSE Resources
Provided by NHS England, this page explains the role of the VCSE sector in health and care, highlighting how charities, community groups, and social enterprises support people’s wellbeing alongside statutory services. It outlines NHS England’s partnerships with the VCSE sector, key programmes and funding opportunities, and resources for organisations to get involved in shaping and delivering health and care services.
The resources can be accessed here.
Public Involvement Best Practice
This resource explains what public involvement means in health and social care research—research carried out with or by patients, carers, advocates, and community members, not just to, for, or about them. It underscores why such involvement enhances research quality, relevance, participant experience, and trust, and why it’s expected in ethical approval processes. The page offers guidance for researchers and sponsors, including the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research, four best-practice principles (involve the right people, enough people, for long enough, and describe how it helps), tips on applications to Research Ethics Committees and the Confidentiality Advisory Group, and links to tools, standards, and further support materials.
The resource can be accessed here.
NIHR Plain English Summaries Guidance
This guidance is for anyone writing a plain English summary of research. The NIHR requires a good quality plain English summary as part of its funding application. Please note that all applications to NIHR funding programmes must be written in English.
The resource can be accessed here.
How to Calculate the Costs of Involving Interpreters and Translators in Health and Social Care Research
The resource can be accessed here.
How to Conduct Research Involving Interpreters and Translators
The resource can be accessed here.
NIHR Public Contributor Payment Policy
This payment policy sets out how NIHR supports members of the public to be involved by rewarding and recognising them through payment and reimbursement of expenses. It sets out principles and methodology for a consistent and coordinated approach to the payment of public contributors within NIHR.
The policy can be accessed here.
UK Standards for Public Involvement
The UK Standards for Public Involvement are designed to improve the quality and consistency of public involvement in research. Developed over three years by a UK-wide partnership, the standards are a description of what good public involvement looks like and encourage approaches and behaviours that are the hallmark of good public involvement such as flexibility, sharing and learning and respect for each other.
The policy can be accessed here.
AI‑Multiply – Get involved
An example of innovative and embedded PPIE within a large-scale AI research programme. The AI‑Multiply project demonstrates how public contributors can be involved across all stages of research, including governance, priority setting and collaborative workshops, with a strong emphasis on inclusivity and diverse lived experience.
Find out more here.
