This is the interim evaluation report on the pilot projects for expanding public participation in NHS Board decision making.  Four NHS Boards are in the pilot.  Dumfries and Galloway and Fife Boards are piloting partially elected health boards; their elections were held and new members joined them in June 2010.  Grampian and Lothian Boards are piloting alternative ways of broadening board recruitment and participation; their new members joined them in late 2010.