Engaging communities

Summary

Engaging with people about their health is important. It leads to high quality, safe services that are person-centred. It also improves the health and wellbeing of communities. We involve communities in planning and developing health and care services with policy makers and service providers.

We do this by:

  • building and sharing evidence around engagement
  • using knowledge and expertise to improve engagement
  • assuring people’s involvement in shaping services