Co-production and community development – a primer (2018)

Summary

The Leadership Academy has commissioned a project to explore how it can maximise the potential of ‘people power’ through its work, ensuring that participants in its programmes are equipped to work in co-production, across boundaries, and focus on health creation and community capacity, not just how to lead services or organisations. This short primer sets out the theory and context around community development and co-production and what this means for NHS leaders and leadership development. Recommendations from the project will build on what’s already working well across the country and highlight opportunities for change, in order to build an even stronger Academy offer into the future.