Patient representatives for the iMPROVE Community of Practice Core Group

The iMPROVE COP Core Group is seeking two patient representatives from Scotland

• Are you interested in making best use of medicines and improving personalised care?  

• Do you enjoy collaborating and engaging with others to share your own experiences and views? 

If yes, a patient representative role on the iMPROVE Community of Practice (COP) Core Group might be for you! 

Background 

The iMPROVE programme aims to empower patients and healthcare professionals across Scotland, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to work and learn together to embed integrated care pathways for personalised, cost-effective use of medicines.  

These new pathways will help assure equitable access for all to personalised care that ensures best use of medicines based on an understanding of the whole person. This includes the outcomes that matter to the individual, their personal and social circumstances and their clinical needs, including their genetic response to medicines. 

The iMPROVE COP Core Group is seeking two patient representatives from Scotland, who have a commitment to: 

• improve the personalised use of medicines based on person-centred medicines review 

• collaborate, share knowledge, and learn together to improve use of medicines 

• core values including: equity and inclusion; team working across boundaries; compassion and empathy in relationships across the community; mutual respect; honesty and integrity; and commitment to high quality, safe care.

What would membership of the Community of Practice Core Group involve? 

Membership of the core group includes programme managers, clinicians and patient advocates from across Scotland, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Core Group will establish and oversee a new Community of Practice.  

Core Group members will: 

• plan and organise COP objectives, activities and outcomes to share learning and ideas for improvement 

• assure representative membership of the COP from stakeholder groups from across all three jurisdictions (Scotland, Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland), with particular attention to involving representatives from patient groups who experience barriers to accessing health services 

• evaluate options for a digital platform to enable all COP participants to take part in online meetings, have asynchronous discussion, and share resources, as well as implementing the preferred platform and guidance and training on using it as required. 

• define and implement a digital knowledge repository to store and organise outputs from the COP 

• produce a communications plan 

• provide regular progress updates to the overarching iMPROVE steering groups. 

Yes, I’m interested. What now? 

Please email externalaffairs@alliance-scotland.org.uk by 27 March 2026 to express interest. A member of the team will then be in touch with you to tell you a bit more and discuss your interest in the patient representative role in more detail. 

It is anticipated that the first formal COP Core Group meeting you will be invited to attend will take place on 28 April 2026. 

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