Which, ultimately, is what user involvement is all about.
In Stockholm, PowerUs, committed to user involvement in social work education, and the Social Work Action Network (Swan), worked hard to raise the flag for user involvement.
It says: "User involvement now has 'politically correct' status in mental health.
Successive governments have talked up user involvement over the last 20 years.
But as well as the positives, social workers also highlighted barriers to user involvement.
I see user involvement in recruitment as an example of co-production in action.
At the same time, there appear to be some significant gaps in user involvement in services.
It could perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and, with some more elaborate user involvement, division.
"Chicago learned its lesson and now has a much better system, developed with user involvement," Dr. Nielsen said.
It is this rather than more easy rhetoric about "user involvement" and "co-production" that is now needed.
Social work has been the pioneer of user involvement internationally – in its education, research, policy and practice.
