We continue to be amazed at the public’s interest in and willingness to learn about quite complex concepts in health care planning and decision making. We have taken our deliberative processes a giant step forward by designing a ‘game’ to help the public and patients understand the complex world of health care commissioning. It went down a storm with participants many of whom claimed it was the best public meeting they had ever attended and of course with the PCT brave enough to let us do it. The game helps participants experience real life decisions with the complex trade offs between value sets, evidence, political must do’s, public preferences and interest group lobbying to name a few. More than this the decisions that participants make offer real insights into the priorities they want their commissioners to make in the real world. And through discussion with other members of the public a good few had mindsets challenged if not changed. The game can be easily run in any location but equally can be customised to local issues and dillemmas.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 at 8:53 pm and is filed under News.
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