This isn’t the only place I write – other places include e-patients.net (the blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine), the BMJ blog, and occasionally others. In every case it’s something relevant to my mission, so I’m going to try posting here, occasionally, links to things I’ve written elsewhere. These are from the past two weeks. (Okay, so this time it’s weeks in review…)
June 7, e-patients.net:
From the UK: “Habits of an Improver”
For people working to create real change: “The habits of an improver offers a way of viewing the field of improvement from the perspective of the men and women who deliver and co-produce care on the ground …”
June 15, e-patients.net:
http://e-patients.net/archives/2017/06/amenable-mortality-how-well-195-countries-deliver-cures-they-could-have-delivered.html
June 16, BMJ blog comment:
A project I don’t talk much about, and probably should, is that I’m on the patient panel advising the editors of the BMJ, which has a pretty active discussion board. Patient Partnership Editor Tessa Richards recently attended a conference in Lithuania where nations were discussing how well their health systems get the job done. On the BMJ blog she wrote,
“Limited and inequitable access to health services is one of the factors behind a life expectancy gap of 11 years between the EU’s 28 richest and poorest countries, and a staggering (estimated) gap of healthy life expectancy of 22.1 years for men and 19.7 for women. … Emphasis was put on working with patients from the outset.”
I submitted a reply, citing my post (above) about “amenable mortality,” and added this:
I strongly endorse these words: “If patients are not on board in the political discussions and decisions [on health reform] they will be doomed to failure,” said the health minister Aurelijus Veryga. “We need the help of patient organisations. Not least to support efforts to push the message on the importance of healthy lifestyles.” The results of a public survey had come as “a shock” to him, he said—the majority of respondents to a question on “who is responsible for maintaining your health?” had replied “the health ministry,” not “myself.”
June 20, e-patients.net:
http://e-patients.net/archives/2017/06/what-my-90-year-old-mom-taught-me-about-the-future-of-ai-in-health-care-wbur.html
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