PIF members have been celebrated at the BMA PLG patient information awards 2022.
Of the longlist of 10 resources, six were produced by PIF members.
Last Friday's ceremony saw a shortlist of five celebrated before the overall winner was announced.
This year's winner was Having a baby by Books Beyond Words.
The picture book aims to improve communication and build trust between midwives and expectant parents with learning disabilities.
Lead author Dr Kathryn Hollins said: "We created this book because we wanted to enable people with learning disabilities to understand more about what's it's like to be pregnant and what it's like to be expecting a baby.
"We wanted to show more about what might happen with maternity care, who you might meet, what investigations might happen."
The judging panel said: "‘Brilliant co-production between people with learning disabilities and those who support them has led to this accessible and engaging resource."
The finalists
The longlist of resources celebrated at this year's awards was:
- Alcohol-related brain damage: a toolkit for self-management and recovery, Penumbra
- Bereavement and work website information, Marie Curie
- CONfidence app, Expert Self Care
- Having a baby, Books Beyond Words
- COVID-19 and your heart information hub, British Heart Foundation
- Racism and mental health, Mind
- RCR national consent forms for radiotherapy, The Royal College of Radiologists
- Trans & non-binary sexual health, Terrence Higgins Trust
- Sex and relationships for people with or affected by MND, MND Association
- Your blood cancer diagnosis – What happens now?, Blood Cancer UK
The shortlist, of which three were PIF members, was:
- Having a baby, Books Beyond Words
- COVID-19 and your heart information hub, British Heart Foundation
- Trans & non-binary sexual health, Terrence Higgins Trust
- Sex and relationships for people with or affected by MND, MND Association
- Your blood cancer diagnosis – What happens now?, Blood Cancer UK
Co-production key to success
All of the shortlisted resources were praised for their use of co-production.
Judges described the British Heart Foundation's COVID-19 and your heart information hub, as an: "Exceptional, highly responsive resource with outstanding co-production credentials that provides timely, reliable information at a critical time for patients with heart disease."
MND Association's booklet is designed to help people with MND or Kennedy’s disease find ways to maintain physical intimacy.
Judges said it was: "An important, sensitively co-produced resource dealing with physical and sexual relationships, intimacy, and libido, that includes novel work on the safeguarding of sex worker involvement with people with disabilities."
Blood Cancer UK's booklet aims to provide reassurance, hope, key messages and signposting to additional information and support.
The judges said: "‘Identifying and responding to an unmet need identified by research and utilising exceptional co-production between healthcare professionals and patients, this resource provides vital, accessible information for people recently diagnosed with blood cancer."