University of Leeds

Community Dialogue

What is this?

The Community Dialogue project was a year-long exploration of co-production with Leicester City and Derby City PCTs, it was facilitated by CIHM. Click on this link for more background to the project, how & why it happened, how we did it and what we hoped to get out of it.

More about our aims...

Organisational learnings

Coproduction seems to have a number of consequences for organisations, teams and people; read what we have discovered during this work.

More about learnings...

Things people have said about this work

Memorable quotes from within the project

Quotes...

Do's & Don'ts

If you want to do coproduction then you may need to check out these do’s and don’ts, build on our experience and don’t make our mistakes (make your own, and then share them).

Do's and don'ts...

The project blog

We have maintained a weblog during the life of the project, it proved very useful to share some of the activities and learnings across the 2 lead PCT's, the CIHM team and the PCT's within East Midlands. Click on this link to see it.

The Blog...

Coproduction is...

There are lots of definitions of coproduction; the one we use is not the only accepted definition. But we use this, "Coproduction is a process that involves people in the design and, crucially, in the delivery of the services they enjoy"

More definitions...

Tools

The tools and techniques that we have used and found to work in this area.

Browse the toolkit...

My top 5 things

What the team would like to pass on to others following in their footsteps.

More learnings...

Sinfin team photo

The Sinfin team at the Fun Day in October '08

The Team

Meet some of the people who have been involved in the work.

Meet the team...

Our Evaluation

It is nearly complete now, we will post here the evaluation report of this work within the next few weeks.

The evaluation...

Useful resources

Books, papers and links - stuff that might be useful if you want to explore coproduction or codesign.

Links & Resources...

Future scenarios

In 5 years time we believe that many of these ideas will be commonplace, read what team members predict will be happening in the near future.

Scenarios...

Recent additions

Dragon's den

Posted Mar 25, 2009
Follows the model established by the popular BBC TV programme of the same name. The public members, or "dragons", receive pitches from the professionals and choose to give financial support, or vice versa.

Co-production Manifesto

Posted Mar 23, 2009
NEF's manifesto on co-production.

Camden co-production specification

Posted Mar 23, 2009
Camden's co-production specification for mental health daycare services.

Camden tender documentation

Posted Mar 23, 2009
Camden's additional documentation for the co-production of mental health daycare services.

Derby PPI Techniques Guide

Posted Mar 23, 2009
Appendix 3 of Derby's Communications and Engagement Strategy, features their engagement techniques in a PDF
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