SCIE Position paper 09: Developing measures for effective service user and carer participation

By Mark Doel, Chris Carroll, Eleni Chambers, Jo Cooke, Anne Hollows, Linda Laurie, Linda Maskrey and Susan Nancarrow

Published: June 2007

This paper presents the process and outcomes of research in to service user and carer participation in developing social care services. This research was charged not with evaluating the impact of participation, but with scoping what is know about it and how evaluations are being conducted.