Application form: Patient and Public Voice roles in Public Participation and Seven Day GP Access

Overview

Application form: NHS England Patient and Public Participation – Oversight Group, NHS England, Seven Day GP Access Programme Board.

NHS England is committed to ensuring that public and patient voices are at the centre of shaping our healthcare services. Every level of our commissioning system needs to be informed by insightful methods of listening to those who use and care about our services to inform service development.

There are a range of opportunities for the public, patients, carers and patient representative organisations to get involved in shaping the work of NHS England.  Please see below for our current opportunities. If you would like to receive an application pack in other formats, such as hard copy, please contact england.nhs.participation@nhs.net, call 0113 825 0861 or write to:

The Public Participation Team,
NHS England,
Room 7E46,
Quarry House, Quarry Hill,
Leeds, LS2 7UE.

NHS England Patient & Public Participation – Oversight Group (PPP-OG)

The main responsibility of the PPP-OG is to strengthen and champion patient and public participation across NHS England, providing assurance, support and advice on the delivery of relevant programmes of work

The NHS England PPP-OG is seeking to appoint two Patient and Public Voice expert advisers from across the UK, to join the current membership of this group. Candidates will need to have a genuine commitment to patients and to the promotion of excellent health and social care services, as well as an understanding of national strategy development. The ideal candidate will bring significant board level experience, with a strategic healthcare focus and strong intellect, commercial and political astuteness and a willingness to challenge.They will be expected to apply their skills, knowledge and experience to support the group to make complex decisions that will drive forward NHS England's ambition to deliver world-class, patient-centred care.

There will be payments of £150 per day (for those people not representing or supported by an organisation) for an estimated time commitment of 6 days per year. This is in line with the NHS England Expenses policy. Membership of the group is for 12 months initially, at which point membership will be reviewed.

Please see the information pack for further details.You can apply by clicking on the application form button at the bottom of this page.

NHS England Seven Day GP Access Programme Board

The Seven Day GP Access Programme Board has been established as a sub group of the Primary Care Oversight Group (PCOG). The role of Patient and Public Voice members will be to bring external perspective and patient focus into the NHS England Seven Day GP Access Programme Board. Each PPV member would be expected to bring board level experience with a strategic healthcare focus and willingness to offer ‘critical friend’ challenge. An understanding of primary care in the NHS, particularly general practice services and how these services are commissioned and organised, is essential. PPV members would also be expected to have an understanding and proven ability to link to patient and public networks relevant to health, in particular primary care services.

There will be payments of £150 per day (for those people not representing or supported by an organisation) for an estimated time commitment of 6 days per year. This is in line with the NHS England policy. Membership of the group is for 12 months initially, at which point membership will be reviewed.

Please see the information pack for further details on the Seven Day GP Access Programme Board roles. You can apply by clicking on the application form button at the bottom of this page.