Bringing Unit Costs to a wider audience: Making the invisible visible

Members of the Unit Cost programme met with our Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Research Advisors for our first Unit Cost PPIE project discussion in November 2022. Unit costs of health and social care quantifies the resources required to produce these services in monetary terms. The purpose of the meeting was to jointly develop our understanding of how Research Advisors involvement will work in the programme and to think through how, together, we can make the most of the Unit Cost programme, over its 5 year time horizon. We were keen to identify creative, impactful, opportunistic ways to draw on a range of views on unit costs and create more value from the research through our public involvement activities.