- 1996: INVOLVEINVOLVE was established 1996 and is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to support active public involvement in National Health Services (NHS) public health and social care research. As a national advisory group the role of INVOLVE is to bring together expertise, insight, and experience in the field of public involvement in research (PIR), with the aim of advancing it as an essential part of the process by which research is identified, prioritized, designed, conducted and disseminated.
www.invo.org.uk was established as part of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) NIHR was established in 2006 under the government’s health research strategy Best Research for Best Health to “create a health research system in which the NHS supports outstanding individuals, working in world-class facilities, conducting leading-edge research focused on the needs of patients and the public”. Since that time, we have transformed research in and for the NHS and helped to shape the health research landscape more broadly. Our mission is unchanged: to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research. We deliver against this mission through five core workstreams.
www.nihr.ac.uk, to support active public involvement in National Health Services (NHS), public health, and social care research. As a national advisory group, the role of INVOLVE has been to bring together expertise, insight, and experience in the field of public involvement in research (PIR) Patient Involvement in Research is defined as research being carried out ‘with’ or ‘by’ members of the public rather than ‘to’, ‘about’ or ‘for’ them, with the aim of advancing it as an essential part of the process by which research is identified, prioritized, designed, conducted, and disseminated. United Kingdom
NOTE: “PIR” is also referred to as Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) or Consumer Involvement.
INVOLVE later incorporated into the new NIHR Centre for Engagement and Dissemination, 2020.
CoPI: Public Involvement in Research (PIR)/Patient and Public Involvement (PPI), advisory panels
Context: Dissemination/knowledge translation