KEELE RESEARCH USER GROUP
10 YEAR EVENT
INVOLVE Chair Simon Denegri
RUG Member Anne Worrall speaking about Osteoporosis
A decade on from our tentative first steps into Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement, we celebrated our 10 year anniversary at Keele Hall on September 22nd. The RUG’ s 10 year Celebration Event brought together patients, researchers, charity representatives and PPIE champions from all over the UK and even Europe, to recognise the group’ s remarkable achievements and forward thinking in PPIE.
It’ s hard to imagine that when it was first created back in 2006, PPIE in research was a rarity. But thanks to the determination of staff at the Research Institute( particularly Elaine Hay, Rhian Hughes, Pauline Ong, Clare Jinks, Krysia Dziedzic and Claire Ashmore) to incorporate PPIE into its research projects, the Research User Group now boasts over 90 members, who work on over 70 projects in a variety of conditions- arthritis, mental health, musculoskeletal health, long term conditions and implementation.
Above all, its success is down to each and every one of its committed and hardworking members who have the courage to share their most difficult experiences in a bid to improve healthcare in the future. One of the highlights of the event was a special video, produced and edited by Laura Campbell with support from Adele Higginbottom, Robert Taylor and the RUG members themselves.
Using interviews with RUG members, photographs taken over the years and poignant music and words, the video took the audience through the RUG’ s 10 year history before underlining the reasons why the voices of patients and the public need to be heard in all aspects of research and implementation.
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