Lived Experience Advisory Panels (LEAPs)

Lived Experience Advisory Panels (LEAPs) are diverse groups of people sharing their perspectives on how our services can better serve everyone.

You may be sharing insights from your own experience of local health services, or the experiences of someone you’re caring for.

This will include discussion around how we can make services more inclusive and accessible to people from a variety of backgrounds and with a variety of needs.

For example, you may have felt excluded from, or struggled to access, health services when you needed them most.

LEAPs is led by our Lived Experience Project Lead and colleagues with their own lived experience of service use.

These colleagues are already part of the Berkshire Healthcare Lived Experience workforce, who are working to make service user and carer voices heard. 

How you can help

Your insights and ideas are valuable to us.

As a Panel member you can participate as much or as little as you like in different ways, such as:

• Answering a questionnaire
• Attending a video call
• Taking part in our meeting or workshops 

As well as improving our services, you can also claim payment for your time and expenses.