There are a range of ways to begin, or build on, family involvement practice in your healthcare service. The steps you choose will depend on your existing family involvement practice, your healthcare priorities, your capacity, and your prison’s family engagement arrangements.

At its most simple and fundamental, involving a family member in someone’s care requires a simple email or phone call to gather their input or share an important health update. But for that to happen, we need to have clear processes and ways of working that enable everyone to work with families safely and effectively.

Here are some ideas of how you can embed family curiosity into your culture and practice that are tailored depending on how much time and resource you have.