This brief case study describes how South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust, as part of their work with the Health Foundation’s Co-creating Health programme, encouraged members of clinical teams to train as trainers for the Patient Skills Programme. This was intended to build self-management support skills, enthusiasm and capacity within teams.

Learning included:

• It increased how confident clinicians felt in the programme, making them more likely to refer people to it
• Engaging clinicians who are working with clients who have attended the Patient Practitioner Programme leads to much greater impact
• The language and content of the training needs to be adapted so it is relevant to them