Healthwatch Greenwich Co-Production Checklist

Healthwatch Greenwich (HWG) was commissioned by the South East London Integrated Care Board (SEL ICB) to engage with local people and community members to establish a collective understanding of co-production's role in enhancing health and care services across South East London.

A co-production group consisting of local people and communities was formed to achieve the following objectives:

• To serve as a forum to support co-production activities across health and care services in south east London. 
• To ensure that the design, development, and delivery of health and care services is co-produced by the people that use them.
• To promote a co-production culture and find ways to integrate it as best practice at all stages of health and care service planning, development, and delivery.

HWG facilitated a series of co-production sessions between July 2023 and May 2024. The final four sessions were specifically focused on developing a comprehensive co-production checklist. With input from the co-production group members, HWG compiled and prepared this checklist. 

Following the final review by the members, this checklist is structured as a four stage framework: 

Stage 1. Service Engagement Planning; 

Stage 2. Service Development/Delivery; 

Stage 3. Monitoring of Service Delivery; 

Stage 4. Evaluation of Services. 

Each stage is centred around four themes: inclusion, communication, transparency, and sustainability. For each theme, specific guiding questions are provided to ensure consideration and integration throughout the lifecycle of a service