Richard Morley, the Consumer Engagement Officer at Cochrane, explains why it’s so important that #CochraneForAll this year is a #PatientsIncluded event.

"Consumers were involved in Cochrane right from the beginning when it was established. Cochrane were very innovative in the way that it involved patients and consumers right from the start. In terms of helping to produce evidence, helping to disseminate it, helping to run the organization, you know, involved in the management and the governance of the organization. And at the time when it was established, I think you know we could proudly say that we were leading something here, leading the movement. I think other organisations have caught up. To some degree, perhaps, done things that we aren't doing and that we would like to do. So I think there are opportunities for us to improve the way that consumers are involved in Cochrane and here at the conference. We're going to be discussing that. There's a discreet thing about patient and consumer involvement in research here. There are 30 workshops and many oral presentations around that. So this can be a continual discussion about how we do that."

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