GOsC: Patient Involvement Forum

Details below from the General Osteopathic Council…

Do you have any patients who would be interested and willing to use their unique experience to help make a difference to future osteopathic care? If so, you can find out more by visiting/sharing with them our Patient Involvement Forum page. We will offer a participation fee as a thank you for the time, skills and expertise patients contribute and reasonable expenses will be provided where appropriate.  

Patients will get the opportunity to take part in any of a range of activities such as focus groups, surveys, working groups and consultations. We have also created some posters/flyers you can download and use in your practice to help highlight this opportunity to your patients. 

I have shared our latest tweet about the forum, it would also be great if you could perhaps retweet this and share on any other of your social channels? 

Current opportunities

Patient views sought on our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Framework

We are looking for patients to take part in focus groups and over the phone interviews in early June to get their feedback on our draft Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Framework for 2021-24. The framework sets out our EDI objectives and the actions we intend to take over the next 18 months to help embed EDI even further in our work.

Online focus group

On Tuesday 8 June we are hosting two online focus groups with patients and members of the public to seek feedback on our

There are two time slots available: 2 – 3.15pm and 6 – 7.15pm

When expressing an interest in participating, please indicate which time slot you would prefer.

As a thank you for your time and input we are offering £25 to participants.

In advance of focus group or phone call, we ask that you read our draft Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Framework for 2021-24 to enable you to prepare for the discussion.