Support for Organisations

At m‑powered, we help organisations confidently, ethically and meaningfully collaborate with people with lived experience. Peer Leaders in our m-powered Strategic Collaboration Group have successfully completed our Peer Leadership Academy and are equipped to support a wide range of organisations.

Being an effective Peer Leader requires:

  • Emotional readiness
  • Knowledge, skills and confidence
  • The ability to use lived experience safely and constructively
  • The right structures, support and ethical practice

Examples of how Peer Leaders can support your work include:

  • Help you understand patient experience and outcomes in your field
  • Describe what ‘good looks like’ from a lived experience perspective
  • Spot ‘blind spots’ and help mitigate the risk of unintended consequences for your strategy, programme or project
  • Reflect different perspectives to help reduce health inequalities
  • Share good ‘lived experience stories’ to illustrate the importance and/or benefits of your work
  • Increase the robustness of programme/project governance

See how we’ve helped organisations like yours. Read some testimonials

Our Offer to Organisations

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Strategic Collaboration Group (single session)

Our Strategic Collaboration Group is a diverse group of Peer Leaders who collaborate with a wide range of organisations.

They represent a broad range of lived experience, as individuals and family carers, and across diverse communities, demographics and protected characteristics.

Recent work by our Strategic Collaboration Group includes co-designing principles for the Choice Charter; exploring what ‘good looks like’ for care planning within the NHS App; understanding patient experience of language and terminology on NHS Online; exploring the role of advice and guidance at the Primary/Secondary Care interface. This includes:

  • Co-design with commissioning organisation to agree session focus and outcomes
  • Identifying and inviting Peer Leaders with relevant lived experience
  • Facilitating a session with a small, medium, or large group of Peer Leaders
  • Summary and transcript of the session
  • Reimbursement of Peer Leaders

Recent work by Peer Leaders includes co-designing principles for the Choice Charter; exploring what ‘good looks like’ for care planning within the NHS App; understanding patient experience of language and terminology on NHS Online; exploring the role of advice and guidance at the Primary/Secondary Care interface. This involved:

  • Co-design with commissioning organisation to agree session focus and outcomes
  • Identifying and inviting Peer Leaders with relevant lived experience
  • Facilitating a session with a small, medium, or large group of Peer Leaders
  • Summary and transcript of the session
  • Reimbursement of Peer Leaders
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Strategic Collaboration Group

Depending on the programme/project, it can be helpful to have more than one Strategic Collaboration Group session. Similarly, an organisation may want to commission our Lived Experience Managed Service on a call-off basis. We would be happy to discuss your requirements to offer a bespoke service tailored to the specific needs of your organisation, programme or project.

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Speaker Finder

Our speaker finder service includes identifying a Peer Leader with relevant lived experience to speak at events, conferences, staff training days and more, organising travel and accommodation (as required), and promptly reimbursing the Peer Leader.

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Individual Peer Leader involvement

Organisations/programmes/projects can benefit by ensuring Peer Leaders are integral to their governance arrangements. Peer Leaders have a key role to play on Boards, steering and advisory groups, interview panels and more.

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Training and Workshops

Our main function is to provide a bridge between Peer Leaders and Organisations so they can collaborate meaningfully, confidently and authentically. Where this requires some organisational groundwork, we can offer bespoke workshop sessions for team members.

Benefit to Organisations

  • Understand patient experience
  • Better policy, strategy and service design
  • Safe, ethical and meaningful lived experience involvement
  • Increased diversity of voice and representation

Collaboration starts here – get in touch.

Email: contact@m-powered.org.uk.

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