The Public Health Agency (PHA) have Health and Social Care (HSC) wide responsibility for the oversight of the implementation of PPI Policy and are charged with encouraging and promoting Co-Production, Partnership Working and Involvement with service users, carers and the public.
The Department of Health (DoH) have tasked the PHA with assessing the progress being made in the HSC against this policy and with developing and deploying monitoring arrangements in order to assess how HSC are meeting their statutory and policy obligations in respect of Involvement.
The PHA uses the Personal and Public Involvement (5 Standards) Assessment Monitoring compliance return, the monitoring data return, PPI training data return, alongside the HSC Assurance Statement to assess progress in these matters. The PHA undertakes an evaluation of the returns, including comments and makes recommendations (with input from service users and carers from the Regional HSC PPI Forum). The PHA PPI Team then take these reports through its internal governance/reporting arrangements before submitting to the DoH for their consideration as part of the wider system of accountability with HSC Trusts.
The PHA working in collaboration with HSC partners, service users and carers is leading on the further development of monitoring arrangements, which will facilitate the identification and sharing of qualitative information and learning associated with Involvement, Co-Production and Partnership Working. It is also anticipated that this will form part of the verification arrangements that are planned to be introduced in second half of the 2023/2024 returns.
Click below to view each Trust’s PPI Monitoring Reports.
