Charlie Tims
Associate
Charlie Tims recently co-wrote Video Republic, a look at the social and political significance of internet videos. He is currently involved in producing a part of the TED prize in London.
at 3:22pm
on Friday, 19th October 2007
Improving public health is often expressed in terms of numbers: more doctors, more nurses, more matrons etc. But this often bypasses a discussion of the kind of relationships we as patients have with these people - you are less likely to get better if you don't trust the person looking after you. And that's just the start of it...
Last Thursday, we hosted a conversation among various people interested in the changes to the ways that patients talk to doctors and to each other. We were delighted to have Harry Cayton and Angela Coulter to prompt the discussion. They have both been at the heart of debates about patient engagement in health for years - Harry as patient tsar at the Department of Health and formerly head of The Alzheimer's Society and Angela as head of the Picker Institute.
We have recorded their talks for a Demos podcast, You can listen to the podcast...
1. By subscribing via feedburner
2. Listening via the Internet Archive
3. Downloading the file (14.5MB)
4. Listening below on the embedded player (you need quicktime),
It's quite a long one so maybe it's worth having some markers: Harry Cayton starts at 1:33
We have also produced a note of the discussion, which is here.
We wrote a discussion paper to get things going. It captures our emerging ideas in the healthy conversations project. Next, we'll be exploring these with patient groups and professionals. And we'll see how the hope of conversational healthcare matches the everyday reality.
Last Thursday, we hosted a conversation among various people interested in the changes to the ways that patients talk to doctors and to each other. We were delighted to have Harry Cayton and Angela Coulter to prompt the discussion. They have both been at the heart of debates about patient engagement in health for years - Harry as patient tsar at the Department of Health and formerly head of The Alzheimer's Society and Angela as head of the Picker Institute.
We have recorded their talks for a Demos podcast, You can listen to the podcast...
1. By subscribing via feedburner
2. Listening via the Internet Archive
3. Downloading the file (14.5MB)
4. Listening below on the embedded player (you need quicktime),
It's quite a long one so maybe it's worth having some markers: Harry Cayton starts at 1:33
We have also produced a note of the discussion, which is here.
We wrote a discussion paper to get things going. It captures our emerging ideas in the healthy conversations project. Next, we'll be exploring these with patient groups and professionals. And we'll see how the hope of conversational healthcare matches the everyday reality.
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