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  User Involvement

The National Forensic Mental Health Research and Development Programme is committed to the involvement of service users in all aspects of the research commissioning process and actively encourages service user involvement in the research we support. Please view the following documents for an explanation of how the FMH Programme involve service users:

User involvement induction pack
Service user peer review form
User involvement in forensic mental health research and development - Expert Paper - Alison Faulkner and Brigid Morris
Research glossary

The National Forensic Mental Health Research and Development Programme has recently undertaken an initiative to involve forensic service users in commissioning. The following presentation explains the work of the FMH Programme to involve service users and specifically forensic service users in the work of the Programme. This work was presented at the International Association for Forensic Mental Health Services conference in Stockholm, Sweden between 6 - 9 June 2004 and the INVOLVE "People at the Heart of Research" conference 10 - 11 November 2004.

Service user involvement in forensic mental health

If you are currently a mental health service user particularly with experience of forensic services and would be interested in registering as a service user peer reviewer for the National Forensic Mental Health R&D Programme please feel free to contact the FMH Programme karen.mackenzie@liv.ac.uk

For more general information regarding service user involvement in research please visit www.invo.org.uk