Dr Jo Ellins

Jo Ellins is a lecturer at Birmingham University’s Health Services Management Centre, which she joined in October 2007. Jo leads HSMC’s Patient Experience and Public Involvement (PEPI) workstream, and co-directs a teaching module on ‘Public and Service User Involvement in Healthcare’. One of Jo’s key interests is the role of information to inform, educate and empower patients and previous work includes an evaluation of the quality of information to support patient decision-making (for the Department of Health) and a series of evidence reviews exploring the role of information to enable patient choice in primary care (for NHS West Midlands).

Jo is also interested in participatory research, and is currently leading a project looking at older people’s experiences of care transitions which is being carried out in partnership with more than 20 older people who are contributing to the project as ‘co-researchers’. Prior to joining HSMC, she managed the organisational development programme at the NHS Centre for Involvement and was a research associate at the Picker Institute.

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