For policymakers

You are under constant pressure to achieve more with less, as you work at pace to make the best possible use of taxpayer's money, achieving value for money for the country.

Nowhere is this more true than within health and social care.

You work to gain insight into multiple stakeholder's perspectives, from the media to local communities, to understand the impact policy proposals will have on people's lives. To do this well, you need to ensure that diverse and marginalised voices within society are fully represented. We can help.

It can be difficult to envisage ways to save significant sums of money when the health and social care budget has been so squeezed in recent years, and hard to make sure marginalised communities are heard. That's where we come in.

We're the only patient-led and patient-run organisation of our kind, and our team is diverse, so we are trusted by people who have had negative experiences of the health and social care system, and those who are all too often excluded from the current dialogue through societal and healthcare inequalities.

We work to amplify the voices of those who are unheard, and facilitate a conversation between patients, clinicians, and policymakers, to make recommendations to improve the health and social care system for everyone.

We talk with patients and clinicians, as well as operational and strategic leaders within the NHS, to understand their experiences and the changes they believe can make a difference - either by keeping patients safer and helping them recover faster, saving money, or saving staff time by making systems more efficient (we aim to do all three with every one of our proposals).

Before we bring these ideas to you, we test them fully, finding out what works in evidence-driven trials developed in liaison with academics and think tanks, and run across the country in partnership with hospitals and care providers.