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The Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership is committed to involving our services users in what we do as much as possible. An example of this is through co-production.

Co-production is a term to acknowledge service-users and staff working together in order to improve, change, or problem-solve a challenge.

The OMHP has co-production principles which outline how the Partnership plan to involve those with lived experience into the development of new OMHP services. The principles outline that everyone is equal; it is important to have diverse representation that is reflective of the community the service will assist; everybody should have the chance to take part; and everybody involved should get something out of the process.

With all new projects and events, the OMHP aims to ask 4 questions:

  1. Are people with lived experience of mental ill-health able to work with staff at all stages of this piece of work?
  2. Will people with lived experience have an equal role with staff in making decisions?
  3. Will staff and people with lived experience be jointly responsible for designing and delivering this project/service?
  4. Does the projected development timescale of the project give sufficient time to fully engage with members with lived experience in a meaningful way?

If the answer is yes to all these questions, the OMHP can say the project has been co-produced.