Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) is essential in healthcare research and delivery.

Patient and carer insights, such as experience and satisfaction, are critically important for shaping our health and care system. 

There are multiple ways you can get involved with our work, including:

  • Becoming a PPIE Panel member for our funding opportunities; 
  • Supporting the creation of resources for PPIE; 
  • Getting involved in our event planning and engagement events; 
  • Becoming a part of the research team on a project that is relevant to your lived experience.

Current opportunities to get involved are listed below, or contact us to express your interest.

Sickle patients and carers

Are you a Sickle patient or care for someone affected by Sickle Cell Disorder and interested in Sickle Cell research? We would like you like to be part of our committee bringing together sickle cell researchers and patients/carers to hear about research projects. You will have the opportunity to comment on research proposals to make sure the patient and carer voice is included and that we are supporting research that will make a real difference to people affected by Sickle Cell Disorder.

We are looking for sickle cell patients and carers who attend King's College Hospital or Guy's and St Thomas’ to be part of our King's Health Partners Haematology Sickle Collaborative. If you are interested please email khphaematology@kcl.ac.uk for a copy of the role description, and then apply via the online form here.