Patient Partners

The Patient Partners + 3P (in French : Proches, Professionnels et Public, meaning : Relatives, Professional and Public) program of the Geneva University Hospital (HUG), under the Nursing directorate Management of care (in French : Direction des soins), aims to foster a culture of partnership among these equal stakeholders, at every stage of the patient's care journey. Patient partners and their relatives enable staff to benefit from their experience-based knowledge wisdom in the areas of care, teaching, research and organization.

The Patient Partners + 3P program guides and supports you in your partnership activities, giving visibility to your activities, by continually recruiting new partners eager to invest in improving the quality of care and services. This program is based on :

Partnership is the expression of an interdependant of a relationship of interpendence based on : trust, listening, dialogue, mutual respect, joint collaborative decision-making and action. Patients are experts in their own conditions, living with them daily, the participation of patients is an essential part of their treatment and progress. For their part, healthcare professionals increasingly seek to collaborate, to co-decide and co-construct with the patient, and to establish a relationship grounded in trust and transparency. Partnership is therefore based on resèect for one another, mutual recognition of each partner's skills, scientific knowledge and experiential wisdom. The only way we can care for them and improve healthcare and hospital stays is with their involvement.

+ INFO: Visit Partnership model

Many partnership activities are possible, including: participating in focus groups, speaking at conferences or events, participating in projects, testing patient-facing applications, etc. 

+ INFO: Visit Activities and Discover patient partner activities

An essential tool for implementing collaborations, its aim is to facilitate partnership implementation by linking patients and carers with healthcare staff who wish to collaborate.

The platform helps to recruit partners, support and supervise collaborations, inform and monitor actions while ensuring their visibility.

+ INFO: Visit +3P Partner Patient Platform

A partnership training program has been created to strengthen the implementation of this dynamic between all the players involved. This program includes three different training modules :

1. partnership training in care and services
2. partnership training in research
3. training for co-teaching

Are you interested in joining the program as a patient, member of the public or caregiver? Go to Become a partner to sign up.

Would you like to involve a patient or family caregiver in a project? Go to Involve a partner in your project to submit your application.