What is Patient Involvement?
Want to get involved?
We have a variety of activities which you can get take part in. In doing so, you will help us beat cancer.
Patient involvement is the processes of working together with patients, carers and loved ones, to shape, influence or guide projects as they develop. At Cancer Research UK, we actively involve people affected by cancer in our work. The insight they bring is helping us to beat cancer while ensuring that we’re meeting the needs of patients and their families.
Find ways that suit you to use your experience of cancer to make a real difference. You can share your story to raise awareness, use your influence to persuade your MP to support our campaigns and share your views on our work to help shape it.
If you have a question and would like to speak to us please call 0203 469 8777, alternatively email us at involvement@cancer.org.uk
What's Patient and Patient Involvement?
Patient & public involvement (PPI) means actively involving patients, carers, advocates, service users, and members of the community in research and work. People aren’t just participants in research but are actively involved in the decisions made about the research.
Patient involvement at Cancer Research UK
At Cancer Research UK, we actively involve people affected by cancer in our work to help us to beat cancer while ensuring that we’re meeting the needs of patients and their families. This means working with people rather just for people.
We want to work together with patients, carers and loved ones, to shape, influence and guide our work as it develops.
Our commitment to you and Patient & Public Involvement
We’re committed to driving up standards in health and social care research and believe excellent patient involvement is inclusive, values all contributions and ensures people affected by cancer have a say in what happens. Together with a host of organisations from across the UK, we’ve signed a shared commitment to public involvement.
Excellent public involvement is inclusive, values all contributions, ensures people have a meaningful say in what happens and influences outcomes, as set out in the UK Standards for Public Involvement.
Become part of the Patient Involvement Network
Share your experience of cancer to help make sure our work meets the needs of others who have been affected.
How you make a difference
Discover how people affected by cancer are making a real difference to our work.
Current involvement activities
Use your cancer experience and take part in any of our current involvement activities right now.
Your stories
Find out more about the impact you have on our work, and the personal reasons people have for wanting to get part of it.
Get in touch
If you have questions about any of our opportunities, or feedback for us, you can contact us by emailing us at
involvement@cancer.org.uk or call us on 0203 469 8777. We're always happy to answer questions and receive feedback, so please don't hesitate to get in touch.