Our aims

• • Enable the patient and carer’s perspectives to be heard, which might otherwise be overlooked

  • Provide knowledge for the researchers based on lived experience

  • Identify and prioritise research topics that are important to patients

  • Improve recruitment to research studies

  • Help identify improved measures for research outcomes

  • Build public credibility and trust in clinical research

  • Identify barriers to patient involvement

  • Comment on research project documentation

  • Help write lay summaries for research proposals and Research Ethics Committees