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Sara Turle and Andy Heeps: Having a patient in the room has changed the way...
How can doctors work productively with patients, and what is the impact of doing so? The clinician’s perspective In 2015, as part of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust’s new...
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Alexandra Sinclair and Sandra Doughty: Illuminating the patient experience of...
A survey carried out by the Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Charity in the UK, which exposed the toll on patients of undergoing repeated lumbar puncture, has spurred a collaborative research...
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Cristin Lind and Kyle Knox: Co-producing conferences with patients—challenges...
Cristin Lind and Kyle Knox discuss their experience of co-producing a conference with patients Cristin Lind: The patient perspective If someone had told me when I arrived at the IHI/BMJ International...
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Collaborating with patients to provide online access to health records
Selina Brudnicki and Sandra Dalziel discuss the experience and lessons learnt in jointly developing a new secure patient portal myUHN Patient Portal is a secure website for patients of University...
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When patients choose wisely: empowering patients with evidence to resist...
Anneliese Synnot and David Synnot A few months ago I received a text message from mum that made my heart sink: “Dad’s been diagnosed with a torn knee meniscus. We’re seeing the surgeon about an...
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Helen Salisbury and Elizabeth Swift: Improving gynaecology teaching and...
Key messages Medical students have long been taught how to do pelvic examination using plastic pelvic models (pictured) An alternative approach has seen lay clinical teaching associates teaching...
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Hilde T. Myrhaug and Tone Hansen: Co-producing a systematic review with patients
Hilde T. Myrhaug and Tone Hansen describe how they collaborated on a systematic review on psychosocial interventions for cancer and conclude that collaboration must start early. Differing viewpoints...
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How NHS Trusts can capitalise on partnership with patients
NHS Trusts in the UK are encouraged to involve patients in all aspects of their work, but ensuring patient partnership initiatives work well is challenging. This article by Neil Cowan, Director of...
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Amina Ahmed and Carron Layfield: Patient partnership in an academic research...
Amina Ahmed and Carron Layfield discuss how they set up a collaborative initiative at the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology in Nottingham and what it’s achieved Amina Ahmed: The patient panel...
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Patient controlled hospital admission in mental health
Self-admission to hospital by patients with mental health disorders is possible in some countries and Norwegian authors were among the first to conduct a systematic review to evaluate its impact. [1]...
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Setting up a charity for an “orphan” cancer
Emma Kinloch and Robert Metcalf describe how they collaborated to set up a new charity to promote partnership in research and drive better care and support for patients with a rare cancer The patient...
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Rolling out genomic screening
Experience in Canada illustrates some of the challenges of introducing genomic screening into routine clinical care By 2025, it is estimated that up to two billion people around the world could have...
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Community initiative co-led with patients could improve care for people with...
Canadian family physician Antoine Boivin and patient partner Ghislaine Rouly describe how they work together with community partners to provide holistic care for patients with challenging social and...
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No going back: how patients and professionals are exploring the future of eye...
Patients Annie Folkard and Elaine Manna, ophthalmologists Alastair Denniston, Dawn Sim, Peter Thomas and Pearse Keane and optometrist David Barker reflect on how covid-19 is accelerating a...
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D/deafness and solidarity in the covid-19 pandemic
Devina Maru, a GP Speciality Registrar and RCGP National Clinical Champion for Deafness and hearing loss, and Jean Straus, a hearing aid user, discuss how covid-19 has engendered a sense of community...
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Covid-19 and medical education: patients’ teaching role moves online
Online teaching of medical students by patients during covid-19 is set to become the new norm How patients are involved as teachers at the University of Montreal Mathieu Jackson, coordinator of the...
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Rapid co-creation of information resources for surgical patients during covid-19
Surgical patients are facing new territory. On the one hand they hear that admission to hospital for elective surgery carries an increased risk of getting covid-19, on the other, that delaying surgery...
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Covid-19-induced changes in the management of multiple sclerosis
Covid-19 has forced rapid change in the delivery of health services. Some have the potential to make healthcare more efficient and responsive to patient’s needs. Others may not, so it’s essential to...
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How nutritional volunteer workers have taken the lead in tackling high rates...
High rates of childhood malnutrition and premature death in poor regions in Karnataka state in South India have spurred an innovative project to involve local women to take the lead in tackling the...
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How self recorded PROMs can improve the management of patients with mental...
Aalborg University Hospital – Psychiatry in the North Denmark region has pioneered a new approach to managing patients with schizophrenia and depression based on asking patients to routinely monitor...
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