Two half-day co-production workshops were held with all stakeholders to make recommendations to support the design of a P&C research system (see workshop guide in Appendix 4). The sessions, presented in more detail in the findings section, began with an overview of the P&C research journey and a summary of the survey findings to ensure that the recommendations were rooted in the data and shared understanding of P&C research. Insights from the literature review were also introduced to inspire discussion and provide examples of P&C research coordination and practice across the United Kingdom. Over 50 people attended the workshops, including approximately 20 P&C researchers, 15 council/NHS representatives, 6 university researchers, and 12 VCS representatives. The P&C research team supported the presentation of findings and shared their experiences to illustrate challenges and opportunities.
Following the workshops, the facilitation team conducted a mix of deductive and inductive framework analysis of the workshop data, organising the recommendations according to the stages of the P&C research journey. Where further details were needed to describe the framework, additional interpretation and examples were added inductively during the analysis, helping to inform specific areas of the co-produced recommendations. All workshop facilitators reviewed the data analysis to ensure that the recommendations in this report reflect the discussions.