COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy, and Practice

Volume 1: The Challenges and Necessity of Co-production

Beresford, Peter, Farr, Michelle, Peter Beresford, Michelle Farr, Gary Hickey, Meerat Kaur, Josephine Ocloo, Doreen Tembo, Oli Williams

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781447361763
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Global Development Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Groups most severely affected by COVID-19 have tended to be those marginalised before the pandemic and are now largely being ignored in developing responses to it.

This two-volume set of Rapid Responses explores the urgent need to put co-production and participatory approaches at the heart of responses to the pandemic and demonstrates how policymakers, health and social care practitioners, patients, service users, carers and public contributors can make this happen.

The first volume investigates how, at the outset of the pandemic, the limits of existing structures severely undermined the potential of co-production. It also gives voice to a diversity of marginalised communities to illustrate how they have been affected and to demonstrate why co-produced responses are so important both now during this pandemic and in the future.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Editorial statement
• Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 The challenges and necessity of co-​production
• Part I The impact of existing structures
• 2 Whose views, and lives, truly count? The meaning of co-​production against a background of worsening inequalities
• 3 Silenced voices, unequal impact
• 4 Co-​producing and funding research in the context of a global health pandemic
• 5 Are we there yet? Co-​production and Black Thrive’s journey towards race equity in mental health
• 6 Finding the voice of the people in the pandemic
• 7 Co-​production? We do community participation
• 8 Sovereigns and servers
• 9 What are we clapping for? Sending people to die in social care: why the NHS did this and what needs to happen next?
• Part II Infection and (increasing) marginalisation
• 10 Disabled people’s deaths don’t count
• 11 Realities of welfare reform under COVID-​19 lockdown
• 12 Against violence and abuse
• 13 COVID-​19 and multi-​generational households
• 14 Drug use and street homelessness during a pandemic
• 15 ‘It’s all right for you thinnies’
• Afterword
• 16 Co-​production in emergency responses and the ‘new normal’