Joining forces with the Health Foundation, we hosted a Twitter chat last month on how we meaningfully partner with patients to improve healthcare. The chat marked the launch of the BMJ’s Quality […]
Patient and public perspectives
Jack Welch: Mental health experiences of young adults with autism are still overlooked
Mental health issues are one of the major struggles of our young generation. For autistic people, like me, the scale of the problem is no less. Seventy percent of autistic […]
Anya de Iongh and Alf Collins: “What matters to you?” is at the heart of person centred care
In clinical conversations, asking what matters helps set the agenda for the consultation, and makes it more productive and satisfying […]
Sarah Chapman: Co-producing conferences with patients—voyages of discovery?
Sarah Chapman discusses the challenges and opportunities of co-producing conferences with patients […]
It scares me how much of my son’s health depends on me
“We believe he has Williams syndrome” When I first heard those words from my cardiologist when my son was about two months old I was devastated. In that moment, I […]
Miles Sibley: Understanding patient experience is fundamental to a patient centred service vision
NHS England and Public Health England have recently been consulting on their draft workforce strategy. The consultation document, Facing the Facts, Shaping the Future, says that the strategy is “about […]
Stijntje Dijk: The patient’s role in medical education extends well beyond being “clinical material”
“Medical education used to be something that was done to students, rather than something they were a part of,” said Trudie Roberts, professor of medical education, during a AMEE board […]
Paul Wicks: #PatientsIncluded is harder than it looks, but worth it
You really find the cutting edge of research at a medical conference; reading a paper is greatly enhanced by having a chance to discuss it with the researchers who wrote […]
Anya de Iongh: How can healthcare services deliver on the vision for personalised care?
With a complete mix of senior politicians, system leaders, voluntary sector representatives and people with lived experience as patients or carers speaking, the National Voices Annual Conference was always going […]
Amy Price: The unintended consequences of tai chi for fibromyalgia
I am a trauma survivor with chronic pain. My options for surgical relief and pain management have been exhausted as I refuse to have an internal pain pump and the […]