A guide to co-production in the NHS: In conversation with the authors
This video accompanies the Health Equity Evidence Centre Guide to Co-production in the NHS and features the authors in conversation. In this episode, they share the different reasons and experiences that led them to become involved in co-production.
Co-production is about people who use services and people who provide them working together as equal partners to improve care. At its best, it involves a genuine sharing of power, recognising lived experience alongside professional expertise.
The Health Equity Evidence Centre developed A Guide to Co-production in the NHS to offer practical support for those working to embed co-production in health services. To accompany this guide, we’ve created a three-part video series featuring the authors in conversation. The series brings the guide to life, exploring what meaningful co-production looks and feels like in practice.
Part 1: How did you first get involved in co-production?
In this first episode, the authors reflect on their own journeys into co-production — what shaped their thinking, the challenges they encountered, and why this way of working matters in the NHS today.
Read the guide
How to: A guide to co-production in the NHS
This practical and reflective guide explores the meaning, value, and challenges of co-production in healthcare, offering tools and real-world insights for working collaboratively with patients and communities. Rooted in lived experience, it provides honest reflections, key questions, and step-by-step suggestions to support meaningful partnership, equity, and transformation within NHS services.