On Wednesday 31 January, the dark and cold weather was a contrast to the warmth, passion, and dynamism of the contributions to The BMJ’s first Twitter chat of 2018. 800 plus tweets were sent from over 125 people on the topic of patients as partners in the workforce. The chat was stimulated by Tessa Richards’s BMJ […]
It has been three and half years since The King’s Fund published a report on Patient Activation, and since then patient activation is increasingly on people’s radars. Patient activation is a model of an individual’s level of knowledge, confidence, and skills for managing their own health and healthcare, with highly activated patients taking responsibility and […]
Last week saw the annual meeting of The BMJ’s Patient Panel—an international meeting across at least four continents via plane, car, train, and phone to discuss The BMJ’s partnership with patients. Since 2014, the panel has brought together international patients, advocates, and leaders in the field of people’s (patients or carers) experience, involvement, engagement, and […]