The Patient Experience Library pulls together patient experience evidence from government bodies, health charities, patient voice organisations, academic institutions and more into evidence maps. These maps help researchers and research funders identify where the evidence base is saturated and where gaps remain.

This resource provides useful tips and practical guidance on how researchers can work collaboratively with people with lived experience to shape research projects through shared decision making and equal power.

The NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) Innovation Observatory provides a framework to support researchers to involve public members in evidence syntheses (a process to summarise available evidence) with short time frames.