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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