This issue focuses on Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) a central part of the work of the NIHR and in line with this theme we feature patient perspectives from Chris Peter and Derek Stewart OBE.  There are also interviews with Simon Denegri the Chair of Involve and Margaret Hall PPI Lead for Kent and Medway.  In addition, Professor Martin Knapp, Director of NIHR School for Social Care Research and Dr Chris Gale talk about their research. Plus many more interesting features including real life NIHR experiences in “Faculty voices”.