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Getting Involved as a Patient Partner
Ensuring our research and education is patient-focused, OPEN has welcomed a growing number of patient partners to OPEN Voices, a patient and community panel.
Patient Partners can be patients themselves, caregivers to family members with medical conditions or well individuals who will like to contribute the community perspective.
Co-developed with patients, OPEN Voices Patient Partner will be helping to shape medical research and education through:
- Participating in patient-public involvement and engagement (PPIE) initiatives in research and education, providing inputs and co-developing (where applicable) on research and education projects.
- Sharing your lived experience and insights to help researchers and clinicians understand what matters to patients and their carers.
- Championing patient involvement in medical research and education.
Activities that Patient Partners are involved in depend on the requirements of the project and how much time you can commit. These activities can range from sharing the patient and public perspective on a research project, providing inputs to make patient-facing materials easier to understand, or speaking from your own personal experiences living with a medical condition or caring for someone. You will be sharing your perspectives with researchers, clinicians, students and the public at meetings and events.
We welcome people who have no previous experience with research or people who have, in one way or another, contributed through other patient engagement programmes.
OPEN will match you with suitable research projects and opportunities that best suit your interests and medical condition. We also work to make sure you feel comfortable and confident in contributing to projects.
Please fill up the form in the link below if you would like to express your interest to join OPEN Voices. We will get in touch with you to discuss further and answer any questions you may have.