Patient Leader Programme
RCHT aims to create a patient pool consisting of patients, relatives, carers, and service users of RCHT acute services to complement the existing Cornwall Foundation Trust Patient Leader programme; establishing trained “expert” patients by their own lived experience for a wide range of healthcare services within Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
By listening, engaging, and enabling our services users to participate in all appropriate projects, we will ensure that as a Trust we are listening to what matters to you and keep patient care at the centre of our work. Co-producing elements of our services ensures that any changes made are meaningful to both patients and staff.
The Patient and Family Experience team aim to create a 2-tier patient leader programme to increase patient involvement (where appropriate) through forum discussions, surveys, improvement projects and recruitment.
The Patient Experience Team launched their first cohort in 2023 and will aim to launch a further cohort in 2024. If you would like to be involved, please send your details to rcht.patientengagement@nhs.net with your name, contact details and why you would like to be involved. We will then get in touch as soon as we are able to launch the programme.
