Costing for PPIE
It’s important that your budget accurately reflects your involvement and engagement plans, with adequate resources allocated.
- It is best practice to provide honorarium payments to PPIE members for their time on projects. We recommend using NIHR rates as a benchmarking for your costings.
- Consider costs for carers if required, venue hire, refreshments, advertising, external facilitators (if needed) and any training and learning requirements.
- Budget for accommodation where necessary.
- Think ahead and cost in dissemination. For example, integrate Open Access costs for your published papers.
- Various forms of media can help explain research findings, so this would be the time to add in video production costs.
Below are some helpful links to assist in deciding what and how to cost PPIE in your projects:
Payments - Learning for Involvement
Budgeting for your patient involvement | Cancer Research UK