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Consultant Patient
Making lived experience as accessible, valued, and professional as any other form of expertise — and bringing it into the decisions that shape health, research, life sciences, technology, and policy.
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What is a Consultant Patient?
Consultant Patients are people with lived experience of health conditions, care, treatment, or service navigation who contribute as paid, structured advisors to research, service design, innovation, and decision-making.

They bring real-world expertise into defined projects, helping organisations understand how products, studies, services, technologies, and policies are experienced by the people they affect.
what we do

Lived experience is real expertise

We work with people whose experience of health conditions, care, treatment, or service navigation can reveal what services, products, studies, and policies feel like in the real world.

Our role is to help organisations use this expertise professionally, bringing it into defined projects with clear roles, fair compensation, consent, and appropriate governance.

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WHY CONSULTANT PATIENT

Built on trust and rigour

Everything we do is designed to be trusted by the people who contribute their experience and by the organisations who rely on it.

That means valuing lived experience as professional work, working to clear ethical and data-protection standards, and making every engagement fair, considered, and properly run.

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how we work
Consultant Patient supports organisations to bring lived-experience expertise into practical decisions, projects, and programmes.
Advisory interviews
One-to-one or small-group conversations on questions where lived experience is directly relevant.
Panels and feedback groups
Curated groups giving structured feedback on specific questions, services, products, or ideas.
Workshops and co-design
Collaborative sessions that shape services, pathways, products, research, or policy.
User testing
Review of digital tools, services, materials, and products from a lived-experience perspective.
Insight and reporting
Findings drawn together into clear, practical, decision-ready outputs.

Consultant Patient provides non-clinical services. We do not provide medical advice, healthcare, treatment, diagnosis, clinical decision-making, or any regulated healthcare activity.

SECTORS WE WORK WITH
NHS organisations · Academic and research institutions · Health technology companies
Life sciences and pharmaceutical organisations · Charities and patient organisations · Public sector and policy bodies
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Whether you’re an organisation looking to work with Consultant Patients, or someone interested in contributing your own experience, we’d like to hear from you.
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