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Most healthcare organisations now realise the importance of a patient or consumer focus to improve healthcare outcomes and patient satisfaction. In common with some other BMJ journals, BMJ SRH has taken some first steps towards addressing this deficiency, by introducing a requirement for authors of original research papers to state whether and how they have involved patients or service users in the conception, design and interpretation of their research,1 and by appointing me as their Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Editor.
So who am I? Since becoming sexually active in my late teens, and believing as a woman that in order to control my life I needed to be able to control my fertility, I have had an interest in sexual health, and women’s reproductive needs. I have a longstanding involvement in the UK National Health Service (NHS) in Patient and Public Involvement, and have been a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists´ Women’s Health Network. I have been active in sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) in particular as a patient, campaigner, member of local and national reproductive rights groups, and a …
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