Effective implementation of PPI requires leadership from the top of the organisation coupled with an ongoing commitment of appropriate resources and a willingness to be innovative, flexible and creative.

In keeping with our role as an organisation that seeks to support its members on an ongoing basis and as their needs change, AMRC intends to follow up Natural Ground in a number of ways:

• hold a PPI development workshop for members in January 2010 where they will be able to discuss the report and its insights in detail with their peers.
• support further meetings of the learning set, open to staff from other interested charities.
• incorporate members’ PPI activities in our audit of peer review practices (2010-11).

Through this process of support, monitoring and evaluation our aim is not only to build on our understanding of what is happening in PPI, but to strengthen and improve good practice across the sector.

October 2009