Service user and carer involvement in education for health and social care

This practical and accessible text will provide a framework for building sustainable community engagement in health and social care education and practice. Contents include: service user and carer involvement in higher education; the social and political context; beyond the campus: universities, community engagement and social enterprise; research and evaluation of service users' and carers'; involvement in health professional education; what counts cannot be counted - community engagement as a catalyst for emotional intelligence; setting up a service user and carer engagement project - Comensus; climbing the ladder of involvement - a manager's perspective; stories of engagement.