Co-Production

Description: Co-production refers to a mutual relationship between service providers, service users and their families and communities. The term encompasses a wide range of service activities including co-design, co-delivery as well as the co-assessment of services.

In the context of the social prescribing pathway, an individual referred to a social prescribing practitioner co-produces an action plan following a what matters conversation. Within this context, the term co-design is occasionally used interchangeably with the term co-production. However, co-design specifically refers to a mutual relationship between service providers, service users and their families and communities in the context of the design of services.

Connected Terms: Action planning, asset-based approach, person-centred approach, referral, social prescribing, social prescribing models, social prescribing pathway, social prescribing practitioner, wellbeing, what matters conversation.

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