This document provides background information on the One London Local Health and Care Record Programme. It discusses how currently in the NHS and social care systems, there is no single shared record of a person's care across organizations. This can lead to fragmented and reactive care. The One London proposal aims to address this by creating a local health and care record that is shared across London. It would contain a person's medical history, test results, diagnoses, procedures, appointments, prescriptions, care plans and more. This would allow care teams to access all relevant information about a person. It would also enable more proactive management of populations and empower people to access and contribute to their own records. The document outlines how a One London record could transform
Collaborative Leadership Insights - creating a digital health eco-systemAndrew M Saunders
Digital health is an essential enabler in achieving person centred health and wellbeing, A collaborative digital health strategy is required to manage the complexities of the complex hybrid health model in Australia, This presentation explores the approaches to leadership, transformation and culture that can be effective when working in a complex stakeholder environment.
Healthcare related data is 20 times more valuable to hackers than financial data. Therefore, measurements need to be taken to safeguard privacy straight from the point of design of systems, procedures and data exchanges that involve the use of medical information.
In my presentation about the safety of healthcare data I explore steps that can be taken to safeguard information within the UK's National Health Service and other private healthcare providers.
Collaborative Leadership Insights - creating a digital health eco-systemAndrew M Saunders
Digital health is an essential enabler in achieving person centred health and wellbeing, A collaborative digital health strategy is required to manage the complexities of the complex hybrid health model in Australia, This presentation explores the approaches to leadership, transformation and culture that can be effective when working in a complex stakeholder environment.
Healthcare related data is 20 times more valuable to hackers than financial data. Therefore, measurements need to be taken to safeguard privacy straight from the point of design of systems, procedures and data exchanges that involve the use of medical information.
In my presentation about the safety of healthcare data I explore steps that can be taken to safeguard information within the UK's National Health Service and other private healthcare providers.
New York State is in the process of undergoing an unprecedented transformation of its healthcare system through the implementation of the $6 billion Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program. Why? New York must not only reduce the vast cost of care, but it must also assure that individuals’ care is optimized through better collaboration. DSRIP will require comprehensive networks of providers to work together in Performing Provider Systems (PPSs), delivering population-based healthcare to Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured New Yorkers. Through this process, the State intends to transform New York’s healthcare safety net, improve healthcare quality, and increase sustainability through payment reform. Success in the DSRIP program will require innovative strategies in communication, patient care, data analytics, and many other areas. Technology must therefore be foundational to a solid PPS platform. This panel of leading PPS participants and tech solutions providers will examine the vital role that healthcare technologies will play in DSRIP implementation, and the potential for DSRIP to accelerate the introduction of new, innovative technologies into New York’s healthcare delivery system.
• Jordanna Davis - Principal, Sachs Policy Group
• Stan Berkow - Co-Founder & CEO, Sense Health
• David Cohen, MD, MSc - Executive Vice President, Clinical Affairs & Affiliations; Chair, Department of Population Health, Maimonides Medical Center
• Lori Evans Bernstein - President, GSI Health
• Stephen Rosenthal - President & Chief Operating Officer, CMO, The Care Management Company of Montefiore Medical Center
New York eHealth Collaborative Digital Health Conference
November 17, 2014
This review by the National Data Guardian for Health and Care (NDG), Dame Fiona Caldicott, makes recommendations to the Secretary of State for Health. These are aimed at strengthening the safeguards for keeping health and care information secure and ensuring the public can make informed choices about how their data is used.
The NDG proposes new data security standards for the NHS and social care, a method for testing compliance against the standards, and a new opt-out to make clear how people’s health and care information will be used and in what circumstances they can opt out.
Dame Fiona’s report argues that the public should be engaged about how their information is used and safeguarded, and the benefits of data sharing, with a wide-ranging consultation on her proposals as a first step.
A letter from Dame Fiona Caldicott and David Behan, Care Quality Commission Chief Executive, to the Health Secretary outlines the common themes between the NDG review and a review of data security in the NHS carried out by the CQC.
In search of a digital health compass: My data, my decision, our powerchronaki
Knowledge is power. Despite extensive investments in digital health technology, navigating the health system online is challenging for most citizens. Also for eHealth, the “Inverse Care Law” proposed by Hart in 1971, seems to apply. Availability of good medical or social care services and tools online, varies inversely with the need of the population. The low adoption of eHealth services, and persistent disparities in health triggers a call for multidisciplinary action.
Barriers and challenges are not to be underestimated. Culture, education, skills, costs, perceptions of power and role, are essential for multidisciplinary action. This comes together in digital health literacy, which ought to become an integral part to navigate any health system. Patients living with an implanted device or coping with persistent, chronic disease such as diabetes, as well as citizens engaged in self-care, caring for an elderly relative, a neighbor, or their child with illness or deteriorating health, need a digital health compass.
The panel will engage the audience to elaborate on a vision for this personal, digital health compass and drive advancement in health informatics and digital health standards. The transformative power of health data fueled by targeted digital health literacy interventions can be leveraged by open, massive, and individualized delivery. This way, digital health literate, confident patients and citizens join health professionals, researchers and policy makers to address age-related health and wellness changes to shape the emerging precision medicine and population health initiatives.
From a panel in the eHealthweek 2016. http://www.ehealthweek.org/ehome/128630/hl7-efmi-sessions/
Big data: how it will help us?
The goal of this summit is to combine the different perspectives of data scientists, healthcare professionals, patients and governance to find the much- needed consensus for the next generation of healthcare systems. Join us and share your views and experience. The Health Data Forum online summit was held last 7 and 8 May as another living proof that Virtual doesn't mean Distant.
The European, Chinese, and United States healthcare markets are a study of contrasts, each of which face a unique set of challenges and issues for their combined 2.4 billion citizens. Despite their differences, there are a number of opportunities for organizations to learn and profit through intercontinental collaboration on their paths to a more connected healthcare ecosystem. Panelists representing the three regions will provide an overview of their country’s unique healthcare landscape and offer a vision for a future of collaboration and progress.
• Brian O'Connor - Chair, European Connected Health Alliance
• Millard Chiang - Chairman, China Connected Health Alliance; Chair, Pegasus Holdings Group
• Julien Venne - Strategic Advisor & European Project Team Leader, European Connected Health Alliance
• David Whitlinger - Executive Director, New York eHealth Collaborative
New York eHealth Collaborative Digital Health Conference
November 18, 2014
Giles Wilmore: How will the NHS Information Strategy support the new NHS?The King's Fund
Giles Wilmore, Director of Quality Framework and QIPP, Department of Health, discusses the NHS Information Strategy at The King's Fund's NHS Information Revolution conference.
New York State is in the process of undergoing an unprecedented transformation of its healthcare system through the implementation of the $6 billion Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program. Why? New York must not only reduce the vast cost of care, but it must also assure that individuals’ care is optimized through better collaboration. DSRIP will require comprehensive networks of providers to work together in Performing Provider Systems (PPSs), delivering population-based healthcare to Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured New Yorkers. Through this process, the State intends to transform New York’s healthcare safety net, improve healthcare quality, and increase sustainability through payment reform. Success in the DSRIP program will require innovative strategies in communication, patient care, data analytics, and many other areas. Technology must therefore be foundational to a solid PPS platform. This panel of leading PPS participants and tech solutions providers will examine the vital role that healthcare technologies will play in DSRIP implementation, and the potential for DSRIP to accelerate the introduction of new, innovative technologies into New York’s healthcare delivery system.
• Jordanna Davis - Principal, Sachs Policy Group
• Stan Berkow - Co-Founder & CEO, Sense Health
• David Cohen, MD, MSc - Executive Vice President, Clinical Affairs & Affiliations; Chair, Department of Population Health, Maimonides Medical Center
• Lori Evans Bernstein - President, GSI Health
• Stephen Rosenthal - President & Chief Operating Officer, CMO, The Care Management Company of Montefiore Medical Center
New York eHealth Collaborative Digital Health Conference
November 17, 2014
This review by the National Data Guardian for Health and Care (NDG), Dame Fiona Caldicott, makes recommendations to the Secretary of State for Health. These are aimed at strengthening the safeguards for keeping health and care information secure and ensuring the public can make informed choices about how their data is used.
The NDG proposes new data security standards for the NHS and social care, a method for testing compliance against the standards, and a new opt-out to make clear how people’s health and care information will be used and in what circumstances they can opt out.
Dame Fiona’s report argues that the public should be engaged about how their information is used and safeguarded, and the benefits of data sharing, with a wide-ranging consultation on her proposals as a first step.
A letter from Dame Fiona Caldicott and David Behan, Care Quality Commission Chief Executive, to the Health Secretary outlines the common themes between the NDG review and a review of data security in the NHS carried out by the CQC.
In search of a digital health compass: My data, my decision, our powerchronaki
Knowledge is power. Despite extensive investments in digital health technology, navigating the health system online is challenging for most citizens. Also for eHealth, the “Inverse Care Law” proposed by Hart in 1971, seems to apply. Availability of good medical or social care services and tools online, varies inversely with the need of the population. The low adoption of eHealth services, and persistent disparities in health triggers a call for multidisciplinary action.
Barriers and challenges are not to be underestimated. Culture, education, skills, costs, perceptions of power and role, are essential for multidisciplinary action. This comes together in digital health literacy, which ought to become an integral part to navigate any health system. Patients living with an implanted device or coping with persistent, chronic disease such as diabetes, as well as citizens engaged in self-care, caring for an elderly relative, a neighbor, or their child with illness or deteriorating health, need a digital health compass.
The panel will engage the audience to elaborate on a vision for this personal, digital health compass and drive advancement in health informatics and digital health standards. The transformative power of health data fueled by targeted digital health literacy interventions can be leveraged by open, massive, and individualized delivery. This way, digital health literate, confident patients and citizens join health professionals, researchers and policy makers to address age-related health and wellness changes to shape the emerging precision medicine and population health initiatives.
From a panel in the eHealthweek 2016. http://www.ehealthweek.org/ehome/128630/hl7-efmi-sessions/
Big data: how it will help us?
The goal of this summit is to combine the different perspectives of data scientists, healthcare professionals, patients and governance to find the much- needed consensus for the next generation of healthcare systems. Join us and share your views and experience. The Health Data Forum online summit was held last 7 and 8 May as another living proof that Virtual doesn't mean Distant.
The European, Chinese, and United States healthcare markets are a study of contrasts, each of which face a unique set of challenges and issues for their combined 2.4 billion citizens. Despite their differences, there are a number of opportunities for organizations to learn and profit through intercontinental collaboration on their paths to a more connected healthcare ecosystem. Panelists representing the three regions will provide an overview of their country’s unique healthcare landscape and offer a vision for a future of collaboration and progress.
• Brian O'Connor - Chair, European Connected Health Alliance
• Millard Chiang - Chairman, China Connected Health Alliance; Chair, Pegasus Holdings Group
• Julien Venne - Strategic Advisor & European Project Team Leader, European Connected Health Alliance
• David Whitlinger - Executive Director, New York eHealth Collaborative
New York eHealth Collaborative Digital Health Conference
November 18, 2014
Giles Wilmore: How will the NHS Information Strategy support the new NHS?The King's Fund
Giles Wilmore, Director of Quality Framework and QIPP, Department of Health, discusses the NHS Information Strategy at The King's Fund's NHS Information Revolution conference.
CILIP Conference - Information as a Therapy - Nicole Naylor CILIP
Nicole discussed issues around accessible information, the perfect patient information journey and provided a chance for attendees to test their own levels of health literacy.
#cilipconf19
I was asked by the US Commerce department to attend and present at a roundtable that took place in Sofia, Bulgaria on February 27th. This roundtable included people from president's office, National Healthcare Fund, Patient Groups and key vendors. Bulgaria had many efforts to kickstart eHealth. This was an overview of US legislation and lessons learned as well as a look forward into healthcare innovation trendds
> HTA and Real World Evidence (RWE)
> Why RWE? - Limitations with RCT
> RCT v/s RWE
> Definition of RWE
> Sources of RWE
> Advantages of RWE
> Application of Real World Data (RWD) in RWE
> Benefits of RWD in RWE
> Why Data Sharing is Important?
> Important Stakeholders
> How to Encourage Data Sharing?
> Benefits of Data Sharing
> Case Studies
> Data Privacy Scenario
> Data Security in India
> Regulatory Perspectives Around RWD/RWE
> Way Forward
Jacquie White, Deputy Director of NHS England Long Term Conditions, Older People & End of Life Care and Claire Cordeaux SIMUL8 Executive Director for Health & Social Care were invited by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to discuss how NHS England work in chronic disease.
Defecation
Normal defecation begins with movement in the left colon, moving stool toward the anus. When stool reaches the rectum, the distention causes relaxation of the internal sphincter and an awareness of the need to defecate. At the time of defecation, the external sphincter relaxes, and abdominal muscles contract, increasing intrarectal pressure and forcing the stool out
The Valsalva maneuver exerts pressure to expel faeces through a voluntary contraction of the abdominal muscles while maintaining forced expiration against a closed airway. Patients with cardiovascular disease, glaucoma, increased intracranial pressure, or a new surgical wound are at greater risk for cardiac dysrhythmias and elevated blood pressure with the Valsalva maneuver and need to avoid straining to pass the stool.
Normal defecation is painless, resulting in passage of soft, formed stool
CONSTIPATION
Constipation is a symptom, not a disease. Improper diet, reduced fluid intake, lack of exercise, and certain medications can cause constipation. For example, patients receiving opiates for pain after surgery often require a stool softener or laxative to prevent constipation. The signs of constipation include infrequent bowel movements (less than every 3 days), difficulty passing stools, excessive straining, inability to defecate at will, and hard feaces
IMPACTION
Fecal impaction results from unrelieved constipation. It is a collection of hardened feces wedged in the rectum that a person cannot expel. In cases of severe impaction the mass extends up into the sigmoid colon.
DIARRHEA
Diarrhea is an increase in the number of stools and the passage of liquid, unformed feces. It is associated with disorders affecting digestion, absorption, and secretion in the GI tract. Intestinal contents pass through the small and large intestine too quickly to allow for the usual absorption of fluid and nutrients. Irritation within the colon results in increased mucus secretion. As a result, feces become watery, and the patient is unable to control the urge to defecate. Normally an anal bag is safe and effective in long-term treatment of patients with fecal incontinence at home, in hospice, or in the hospital. Fecal incontinence is expensive and a potentially dangerous condition in terms of contamination and risk of skin ulceration
HEMORRHOIDS
Hemorrhoids are dilated, engorged veins in the lining of the rectum. They are either external or internal.
FLATULENCE
As gas accumulates in the lumen of the intestines, the bowel wall stretches and distends (flatulence). It is a common cause of abdominal fullness, pain, and cramping. Normally intestinal gas escapes through the mouth (belching) or the anus (passing of flatus)
FECAL INCONTINENCE
Fecal incontinence is the inability to control passage of feces and gas from the anus. Incontinence harms a patient’s body image
PREPARATION AND GIVING OF LAXATIVESACCORDING TO POTTER AND PERRY,
An enema is the instillation of a solution into the rectum and sig
The dimensions of healthcare quality refer to various attributes or aspects that define the standard of healthcare services. These dimensions are used to evaluate, measure, and improve the quality of care provided to patients. A comprehensive understanding of these dimensions ensures that healthcare systems can address various aspects of patient care effectively and holistically. Dimensions of Healthcare Quality and Performance of care include the following; Appropriateness, Availability, Competence, Continuity, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Efficacy, Prevention, Respect and Care, Safety as well as Timeliness.
The Importance of Community Nursing Care.pdfAD Healthcare
NDIS and Community 24/7 Nursing Care is a specific type of support that may be provided under the NDIS for individuals with complex medical needs who require ongoing nursing care in a community setting, such as their home or a supported accommodation facility.
CHAPTER 1 SEMESTER V PREVENTIVE-PEDIATRICS.pdfSachin Sharma
This content provides an overview of preventive pediatrics. It defines preventive pediatrics as preventing disease and promoting children's physical, mental, and social well-being to achieve positive health. It discusses antenatal, postnatal, and social preventive pediatrics. It also covers various child health programs like immunization, breastfeeding, ICDS, and the roles of organizations like WHO, UNICEF, and nurses in preventive pediatrics.
Empowering ACOs: Leveraging Quality Management Tools for MIPS and BeyondHealth Catalyst
Join us as we delve into the crucial realm of quality reporting for MSSP (Medicare Shared Savings Program) Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
In this session, we will explore how a robust quality management solution can empower your organization to meet regulatory requirements and improve processes for MIPS reporting and internal quality programs. Learn how our MeasureAble application enables compliance and fosters continuous improvement.
One of the most developed cities of India, the city of Chennai is the capital of Tamilnadu and many people from different parts of India come here to earn their bread and butter. Being a metropolitan, the city is filled with towering building and beaches but the sad part as with almost every Indian city
Antibiotic Stewardship by Anushri Srivastava.pptxAnushriSrivastav
Stewardship is the act of taking good care of something.
Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
WHO launched the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) in 2015 to fill knowledge gaps and inform strategies at all levels.
ACCORDING TO apic.org,
Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
ACCORDING TO pewtrusts.org,
Antibiotic stewardship refers to efforts in doctors’ offices, hospitals, long term care facilities, and other health care settings to ensure that antibiotics are used only when necessary and appropriate
According to WHO,
Antimicrobial stewardship is a systematic approach to educate and support health care professionals to follow evidence-based guidelines for prescribing and administering antimicrobials
In 1996, John McGowan and Dale Gerding first applied the term antimicrobial stewardship, where they suggested a causal association between antimicrobial agent use and resistance. They also focused on the urgency of large-scale controlled trials of antimicrobial-use regulation employing sophisticated epidemiologic methods, molecular typing, and precise resistance mechanism analysis.
Antimicrobial Stewardship(AMS) refers to the optimal selection, dosing, and duration of antimicrobial treatment resulting in the best clinical outcome with minimal side effects to the patients and minimal impact on subsequent resistance.
According to the 2019 report, in the US, more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur each year, and more than 35000 people die. In addition to this, it also mentioned that 223,900 cases of Clostridoides difficile occurred in 2017, of which 12800 people died. The report did not include viruses or parasites
VISION
Being proactive
Supporting optimal animal and human health
Exploring ways to reduce overall use of antimicrobials
Using the drugs that prevent and treat disease by killing microscopic organisms in a responsible way
GOAL
to prevent the generation and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Doing so will preserve the effectiveness of these drugs in animals and humans for years to come.
being to preserve human and animal health and the effectiveness of antimicrobial medications.
to implement a multidisciplinary approach in assembling a stewardship team to include an infectious disease physician, a clinical pharmacist with infectious diseases training, infection preventionist, and a close collaboration with the staff in the clinical microbiology laboratory
to prevent antimicrobial overuse, misuse and abuse.
to minimize the developme
ICH Guidelines for Pharmacovigilance.pdfNEHA GUPTA
The "ICH Guidelines for Pharmacovigilance" PDF provides a comprehensive overview of the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) guidelines related to pharmacovigilance. These guidelines aim to ensure that drugs are safe and effective for patients by monitoring and assessing adverse effects, ensuring proper reporting systems, and improving risk management practices. The document is essential for professionals in the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory authorities, and healthcare providers, offering detailed procedures and standards for pharmacovigilance activities to enhance drug safety and protect public health.
2. #OneLondon
• Test results
• Diagnoses
• Procedures
• Hospital attendances
• Hospital
appointments
• Long term conditions
• Previous conditions
• Ongoing
prescriptions
• Record of care plan
• Record of flu jab
• Social care
package
• Social
situation
(e.g. lives
alone)
• Nursing
care needs
• There is no single shared description about what is going on for a person, across the NHS
• NHS systems do not empower a person to see the whole picture of their care; and it relies on people themselves to
be the ‘glue’ that coordinates between silos in the system
• When a person gets care from one organisation it is very often the case that their care team cannot see all the
information they need to provide the safest and most coordinated care
• This situation perpetuates reactive and fragmented care
111
OneLondonLHCRE–EngagementWorkshop18thJuly
The way we work across the health and care system is fragmented
3. #OneLondon
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• In each STP area, progress is being made on supporting care teams to see relevant (not all) information about a
person which is held in other parts of the system – the data is still held in silos
• Part of the One London proposal is to allow care teams to do that not just within the organisations of their STP area,
but right across London: so if someone from Clapham turned up at the A&E in Chelsea, care teams could see the
information they need – such as allergies, current medications, existing LTCs
• This is about creating a ubiquitous view of relevant information for direct care, at the point of care
• Frailty
flag
• CMC
Care Plan
One London Health and Care Information Exchange
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We are each making some progress in addressing that
1
4. #OneLondon
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• Frailty
flag
• CMC
Care Plan
• Many different types of services need to use (not just look at) integrated information to proactively identify people who could
benefit from additional support – e.g. identifying that someone is pregnant and has yet to have a flu jab; or noting that people
with atrial fibrillation need a different type of anticoagulant medication; or spotting that someone with multiple long term
conditions has been going to hospital much more frequently of late. This is hard if the data remains in separate silos.
• The One London proposal is to bring together personal data securely and in one place, so that there is a complete record
across the whole system, this will:
• help a range of different services to become more proactive at managing direct care across the population; and
• enable people to access and contribute to their record themselves.
OneLondonLHCRE–EngagementWorkshop18thJuly
One London Health and Care Information Exchange
One London Local Health and Care Record
A One London Local Health and Care Record could transform the level
of professional integration and service user empowerment
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3
5. #OneLondon
• For the health and care system to keep improving it is important that professionals are able to look at what is actually
happening, and to explore the causes of particular trends, and the effects of new ways of working.
• This requires integrated information, but that does not need to contain data that identifies people specifically. The
One London proposal is to create a data service that can provide de-identified information to improve the health
and care system:
• for effective management of the system; quality improvement initiatives; or for medical research.
• e.g. in Israel doctors have used this type of data to create a tool to identify people who should be invited for bowel
cancer screening. The development of these tools can then be used in the real world to improve direct care for all.
One London Local Health and Care Record
One London De-identified Information
OneLondonLHCRE–EngagementWorkshop18thJuly
And using de-identified information intelligently could help improve
health and care services and outcomes for the whole population
6. #OneLondon
One London De-identified
Information
• Using de-identified data to
understand how services
are working, and to plan
safe and effective service
levels
• Using evidence of what has
happened to develop a
genuinely ‘learning health
system’
• Enabling new discoveries
that we can all benefit from
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We want information, power and services focused on service users;
and we want to use information to create new healthcare knowledge
One London Local Health
and Care Record
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• A genuine health record for
everyone
• People empowered to see,
and add to, their own record
• Professionals able to see all
relevant information to
provide safer and more
coordinated reactive care
• New abilities to use data to
support proactive care for
those who need additional
support, or who have
identifiable untreated risks
7. #OneLondon
OneLondonLHCRE–EngagementWorkshop18thJuly
We want information, power and services focused on service users;
and we want to use information to create new healthcare knowledge
UEC and 111
record visibility
Care Homes
connectivity
LTC ID: frailty
flag and AF
WSIC
development
CMC
IMPARTS and
PHR
One London
Demonstrator Projects
Intelligence:futureBI
One London
Enablers
(5i)
Involvementandengagement
Informationgovernanceframework
Informationarchitecture(DigitalArchitectureAuthority)
Infrastructureandconnectivity
Investment framework
Ubiquitous sharing at point of care
Normalised data layer for alerts and
proactive care
Patient access and control
LHCRE Goals (Initial stage)
2
3
1
Involvementandengagement
10. 1. Levels of public awareness: Key messages
• Awareness of how patient data is used beyond
individual care is low
• Understanding of commercial access to data is low
according to more studies than not
• ‘Spontaneous ideas’ as to how data might be used is
low 6
• A ‘gulf’ exists between how people think the NHS
was likely to use patient data and the reality 14
11. 1. Levels of public awareness: the big picture
• 1/3 are not aware that health and care records are not
‘readily shared’ between health and care professionals13
• 25% of people are aware of the NHS Genomics programme
12,13
• In two surveys 80 and 82% of the general public polled had
not heard of the national cancer registry19
• There is little ‘spontaneous understanding’ of ‘how and why
healthcare data might be used’6
12. • There is support for access to patient data for
‘public benefit’. This is key to the acceptability of
using patient data beyond individual care.
• In deliberative work which discusses and
explores data uses, support and acceptance of
the principle of sharing data increases for some
participants, but this is not a simple picture
• Acceptability and support depends on the
specifics of data uses being explored.
2. Acceptability of using patient data: key messages
13. • ‘Public benefit’ is the key justification for people
accepting the sharing of patient data 20, 23, 5, 1
• Support is high for sharing data for direct patient care
(96%) (though less with social care and home care)13, and
for medical research (77%25 74%14 )
– These views vary and levels of support depend on the
nature of the research and levels of trust
• 80% would probably or definitely like their doctor to tell
them about research allowing researchers confidential
access to their medical records4
2. Acceptability of using patient data: the big picture
14. 2. Acceptability of using patient data: how views may
change
• Many members of a citizens’ jury became more supportive of
information sharing for public benefit in general even if they
were less supportive about specific potential or planned uses
of data that had been open to consideration8
• During the course of focus groups, as participants became
more informed many found uses of data beyond individual
care more acceptable, including for commercial companies
using data23
15. 6. Concerns in using patient data: key messages
• People are most concerned about certain types
of sensitive data
• Common concerns are around security, misuse
and causing harm
• There is some evidence that some groups of
people feel more powerless than others in the
face of concerns
16. Key messages
3. Be transparent
2. Be clear about the safeguards
1. Talk about the why
21. www.thersa.org
21ST CENTURY ENLIGHTENMENT
Our mission is to create conditions
for enlightened thinking and the
collaborative action needed to
address today's most pressing social
challenges.
We act as a global hub, by enabling
millions of people to access the
most creative ideas, by nurturing
networks of innovators, and
through researching, testing and
sharing practical interventions.
The RSA
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21ST CENTURY ENLIGHTENMENT
30,000 people around
the world support and
follow what we do.
We engage fellows in
our projects as much as
we can.
We host over 300 public
events each year.
We have over 100
million online viewers
and 500,000 YouTube
subscribers.
We combine practical
experimentation with
rigorous research to
create unique
programmes of work.
23. www.thersa.org
21ST CENTURY ENLIGHTENMENT
What is deliberation?
‘Delibarare’ – ‘to weigh or to consider well’.
• balance carefully, consider implications, including
the arguments for and against
• engage a group of individuals in discussions that are
informed
• promote the sharing of perspectives and values
that are diverse, and promote better understanding
24. www.thersa.org
21ST CENTURY ENLIGHTENMENT
Deliberative innovations: mini-publics
• Citizens are tasked with helping to resolve a pressing problem
• This group of citizens is a small group who are randomly selected from a
local, regional or national community.
• The group spends a generally long period of time learning about and
deliberating on a policy issue from different angles.
• Citizens are asked to deliberate on behalf of their community with the aim
of reaching a consensus or compromise.
• The group produces concrete recommendations for decisionmakers, who
then respond directly and publicly to the proposals.
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21ST CENTURY ENLIGHTENMENT
The Citizens’ Economic Council programme
Our motivation:
Polarised debates undermine the quality of public discourse on the economy
and our democracy.
Our hypothesis:
‘When citizens are effectively engaged in economic policy, they gain greater
awareness of economic issues, are more empowered to influence the economy
and can help to strengthen both the quality and legitimacy of policy making.’
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21ST CENTURY ENLIGHTENMENT
• Fairness
• Social Justice
• Rights & responsibilities
• Innovation for social good
• Accountability and transparency
• Sustainability (environmental, social and
economic)
• Citizen engagement and empowerment
• Devolved power and decision-making
A citizens’ economy is one which secures:
The Citizens’ Economic Charter
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21ST CENTURY ENLIGHTENMENT
• They want greater transparency
• Diversity brings legitimacy and
effectiveness of policy making
• They want engagement at
different levels
• Trust comes from action, not just
understanding
What council members told us
30. www.thersa.org
21ST CENTURY ENLIGHTENMENT
• Clear benefits for the citizens
involved in the process
• Potential to build legitimacy of
policymaking
• Deliberation has a role to play in
building a stronger democracy
Andy Haldane, Bank of England, with Patricia Wharton, Council member
Our reflections
32. One London: building a social licence
Dr Malcolm Oswald
Director, Citizens Juries c.i.c.
Honorary Research Fellow in Law, University Manchester
33. Outline
• Citizens’ juries on data privacy / health data sharing
• So what?
– Why do citizens’ juries?
– Criticisms and limitations
– What else do you think should be done in London to
engender trust and build “social licence”?
34. What is a citizens’ jury?
• Deliberative democracy
• Jefferson Center method
• Born in the USA, alive and well e.g. in Australia
• Similar to e.g. Irish citizens’ assembly
35. Citizens’ juries about patient records
• 2 3-day juries on: to what extent should patients control
access to patient records?
• 2 4-day juries for: Connected Health Cities in November
2016 on proposed and potential uses of patient data
• 1 3-day jury for Office of the National Data Guardian on
“reasonable expectations” in January 2018
• 1 3-day jury in June 2018 on using free-text data in
patient records for research
• Later this month...
36. Citizens’ juries about patient records
• Video from:
– One of 2 juries run in January 2016 on:
“To what extent should patients control access to
patient records?”
– post-jury workshop
37.
38.
39. What did the juries do?
• Over 4 days:
– Addressed 6 questions, about planned and potential uses of
health data
– Heard from 8 witnesses
– Group exercises and deliberations
– Voted on jury questions
– Joint conclusions
– Developed a jury report in situ with facilitator
• Same process, facilitators, expert witnesses for both
Manchester and York – different jurors
40. Who were the citizens?
• 18 per jury, 9 from across each CHC region
• Broadly representative mix (2011 census for England):
– Age
– Gender
– Ethnicity
– Educational attainment
– Geographical spread
• Also sampled on prior health record sharing / privacy
view (2015 Wellcome IPSOS MORI survey-1524 adults)
• 694 applicants through various sources including Indeed
• Paid £100 per day + expenses
41. Who was involved?
• Commissioned and funded by CHC
• Juries designed by Jefferson Center and me
• Jury questions developed with CHC
• 2 facilitators:
– Kyle Bozentko, Jefferson Center, Director
– Dr Vicky Chico, Lecturer in Law, University of Sheffield
• Oversight panel monitored and reported potential bias:
– Ian Inman
– Murat Soncul
– Joanne Bailey
• 8 expert witnesses on e.g. Health records, law, ethics, for and
against data sharing
43. Some findings from these 2 juries
• Juries answered 6 questions with reasoning
• People tended to be more accepting of health data sharing
to both private and public sector after the jury process
• But only where they see a public interest in the data sharing
• People bring their prior understanding (e.g. of A&E
services) to the process
• When provided with relevant information and a chance to
deliberate with their peers, many jurors changed their mind
44. Very willing Fairly willing Don’t know Fairly
unwilling
Very
unwilling
How willing or unwilling would you be to allow your medical
records to be used in a medical research study? The information
given to researchers would not include your name, date of birth,
address or any contact details.
“Filter question” for November juries
Manchester Jury
45. Very willing Fairly willing Don’t know Fairly
unwilling
Very
unwilling
How willing or unwilling would you be to allow your medical
records to be used in a medical research study? The information
given to researchers would not include your name, date of birth,
address or any contact details.
End-of-jury questionnaire answers from Manchester
Manchester Jury
N=5
N=13
46. Very willing Fairly willing Don’t know Fairly
unwilling
Very
unwilling
How willing or unwilling would you be to allow your medical
records to be used in a medical research study? The information
given to researchers would not include your name, date of birth,
address or any contact details.
York Jury
N=9
N=9
End-of-jury questionnaire answers from York
48. Why do citizens’ juries?
• Public bodies/programmes like One London make
decisions that affect others:
– Often complicated
– Based on value judgements and evidence (few
organisations state values)
– Juries add legitimacy: bring public values into public
policy
– Engage citizens in “slow thinking” with the evidence
balancing competing values
• But no panacea – one piece of the jigsaw
• What are your criticisms and limitations of citizens’
juries/councils?
49. Criticisms
• Not perfectly representative or random sample
• Potential for bias:
– amongst commissioners & organisers (conscious,
unconscious)
– Amongst participants (but evidence and “slow
thinking” reduces participant bias)
• Group think
• Results may be ignored by jury commissioners
• Citizens are unelected and unaccountable
50. Limitations
• Small number of people (e.g. no statistical significance)
• Not open to all Londoners – what about other voices?
• On its own, would not raise awareness across London
• Would not fulfil NHS requirements of public consultation
• Does not target special groups e.g. vulnerable people
51. Group work: questions for you
• How should the criticisms and limitations be addressed?
• What / what else would you do to create a social licence
for One London to operate?
52. What else? Some thoughts from me
• Give everyone who wants the chance to speak e.g.
Town hall meetings
• Find out what a larger cross-section of the public believe
(e.g. survey with statistical significance)
• Do targeted work with special interest groups
• Engage citizens in both value judgements and design
• Role for experts and lobby groups?
• Tell as many people as possible (but recognise the
limitations)
• Be transparent
• Use the outcomes to inform your decisions
53. To conclude…
• Citizens’ juries help public bodies understand what a
cross-section of the public think about complex policy
questions
• Citizens often change their minds
• People tend to be more accepting of health data sharing
to both private and public sector after the jury process
• But only where they see a public interest in the data
sharing
• Citizens’ juries are one valuable piece of the jigsaw
54. More detail available…
• Jury booklet, videos, jury materials etc.
• herc.ac.uk/citizens-jury
• connectedhealthcities.org/get-involved/citizens-juries/
• citizensjuries.org
58. #OneLondon
Enabling projects
Other digital projects
(e.g. GP Online)
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NHS England (National)
MOU£
LHCRE Programme Board
London Digital Board
Mandate£
NWL NCL NEL SEL SWL LAS
MOU
£
MOU
£
MOU
£
MOU
£
MOU
£
MOU
£
London
Capital
Committee
STE
Having won we now need to setup the programme!! The accountability
for funding is based on MOUs…but the ‘governance’ is much broader
In a sense, the accountability for LHCRE funding and delivery is straightforward and
linear, our challenge is to enable One London coordination in the delivery: who and how
we decide to set the parameters of design and investment, and how we link to other
funding, initiatives and decision-making across the capital
The LHCRE programme forms part of a
wider portfolio of ‘digital mobilisation’
programmes that is overseen by the
London Digital Board
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59. #OneLondon
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We want information, power and services focused on service users;
and we want to use information to create new healthcare knowledge
UEC and 111
record visibility
Care Homes
connectivity
LTC ID: frailty
flag and AF
WSIC
development
CMC
IMPARTS and
PHR
One London
Demonstrator Projects
Intelligence:futureBI
One London
Enablers
(5i)
Involvementandengagement
Informationgovernanceframework
Informationarchitecture(DigitalArchitectureAuthority)
Infrastructureandconnectivity
Investment framework
Ubiquitous sharing at point of care
Normalised data layer for alerts and
proactive care
Patient access and control
LHCRE Goals (Initial stage)
2
3
1
Involvementandengagement
60. #OneLondon
Ubiquitous
sharing at point
of care
Normalised data
layer for alerts
and proactive
care
Patient access
and control
LHCRE Goals AdvancedDevelopingBasic
Level of digital maturity
This setup phase should help STPs to describe what the
maturity spectrum looks like and to assess their ‘as-is’ position
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STP leads can use this grid to describe
the spectrum of capabilities from basic-
to-advanced; and then plot the ‘as-is’
position as part of a self-assessment
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61. #OneLondon
Enabling
project 1
STP A
STP B
STP C
STP D
STP E
Pan-London
/ HLP / CSU
Project lead is responsible
for convening the working
group, virtually (e.g. using
Slack etc) or in person, and
sharing developments
across STP areas
A nominated lead
assumes a
responsibility for the
enabling project
Each participating STP
areas nominate a lead
to be part of the
working group
• Distributed leadership for
enabling projects, with
sufficient backfill to allow
involvement of STP teams
• Do work once where it
makes sense to have
scale, do it locally where it
requires on the ground
knowledge and
relationships
• Involvement of other
expert advisers in the
project work
• The process should help
build understanding and
ownership within STPs
What
Enabler Projects
Who
LHCRE Operational Leads
How
Principles and outputs
We will setup enabling projects that bring together STP (& other)
leads to make shared decisions about £, IG and engagement
Other
Organisations
Where there are other
relevant experts, (e.g.
Understanding Patient
Data etc.) these should
be included in some
project structure (e.g.
advisory group)
Involvementandengagement
Informationgovernanceframework
Informationarchitecture(DigitalArchitectureAuthority)
Infrastructureandconnectivity
Investmentframework
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62. #OneLondon
Demo
project 1
STP A
STP B
STP C
STP D
STP E
Pan-London
/ HLP
Demonstrator Lead is
responsible for convening
the working group, virtually
(e.g. using Slack etc) or in
person, and sharing
developments across STP
areas
A clinical lead assumes
a responsibility for
delivery of the
demonstrator project
Other participating STP
areas nominate a
clinical lead to be part
of the working group
• Distributed clinical
leadership for
demonstrator projects
• Involvement of people with
lived experience
• Creation of use cases and
personae to illustrate why
it is important and how it
needs to be designed
• Working group approach,
using agile methods to
test, learn and improve
• Establishing the basic
information requirements /
specifications to share
with Architecture Project /
Design Authority
What
Demonstrator Projects
Who
LHCRE Operational Leads
How
Principles and outputs
We will also mobilise generalizable projects, with distributed local
clinical leadership embedded in STP transformation projects
Clinical
Networks
Where they relate to a
demonstrator project,
some interaction with the
appropriate London
Clinical Network is
desirable
UEC and 111
record visibility
Care Homes
connectivity
LTC ID: frailty
flag and AF
WSIC
development
CMC
IMPARTS and
PHR
Intelligence:futureBI
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63. #OneLondon
‘Team captains’ for work stream should be drawn from across STPs;
we will convene nominated leads as part of a LHCRE ‘SLT’
Digital
Board
SWL
SEL
NEL
NCL
NWL
Pan-London
/ HLP / CSU
Clinical
Networks
IG
Info arch-
itecture
Infra-
structure
Investment Involve
FOR ILLUSTRATION ONLY
LHCRE Operational LeadsLHCRE SROsLHCRE secretariat
LHCRE
Senior Leadership Team (SLT)
London Digital
Board
WSIC
Frailty
& AF
Care
Homes
UEC
PHR &
IMPARTS
CMC
Future
BI
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64. #OneLondon
Full setup: as work begins we will need to ensure that effective
interactions avoid ‘enablers’ becoming divorced from ‘demonstrators’
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IG
Infoarch-
itecture
Infra-
structure
Investment
Involve&
engage
WSIC
Frailty
& AF
Care
Homes
UEC
PHR &
IMPARTS
CMC
Future
BI
e.g. Clinical examples and
leadership will provide
important inputs to
successful engagement
and IG framework
development
Technical architecture and
underpinning connectivity
will be determined by the
types of information
sharing that is required to
support the desired
clinical transformation
The benefits of ‘digital’ will result from the
quality or efficiency improvement within
transformed clinical services; and there will
be several other sources of transformation
funding that need to be aligned to leverage
the most from the LHCRE funding
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Editor's Notes
Research and researchers are more likely to be ‘perceived as trustworthy’ if there if transparent, open dialogue is held with the public, rather than just dissemination of information2
References
Administrative Data Research Centre Northern Ireland, Access Research Knowledge (ARK), Public attitudes to data linkage and sharing (2017)
Aim: “To capture a baseline of public attitudes in Northern Ireland towards data linkage and sharing which can then be reassessed at intervals to measure changes in public trust and understanding.”
Sample/method: 1,200 completed survey (Northern Ireland Life and Times survey - subset on data sharing), interviews
URL: https://ijpds.org/article/view/320; http://www.ark.ac.uk/publications/updates/update108.pdf; http://www.ark.ac.uk/events/datasharingsep16.pdf
2. Aitken. M, Cunningham-Burley. S, Pagliari. C, Moving from trust to trustworthiness: Experiences of public engagement in the Scottish Health Informatics Programme (2016)
Aim: “to explore perceptions of the role, relevance and functions of trust (or trustworthiness) in relation to research practices.”
Sample/method: 8 focus groups and a stakeholder workshop
URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scv075
4. Association of Medical Research Charities, Public support for research in the NHS (2011)
Aim: To investigate public support for research in the NHS.
Sample/method: 990 interviews
URL: https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/public-support-research-nhs
5. Asthma UK, Data sharing and technology: Exploring the attitudes of people with asthma (2018)
Aim: to ask people with asthma about their attitudes to sharing their patient data for research and service improvement, and about the use of new technology and data in their asthma care.
Sample/method: Survey of 3,000
URL: https://www.asthma.org.uk/datareport
British Medical Association, Secondary Uses of Healthcare Data Public Workshop Debrief (2015)
Aim: “to know more about public awareness and understanding of secondary uses of healthcare data, and what concerns the public have over the sharing of healthcare data for secondary purposes.”
Sample/method: 3 workshops (1 public, 2 BMA members)
URL: https://www.bma.org.uk/collective-voice/policy-and-research/ethics/secondary-uses-of-data/public-workshop
Connected Health Cities Connected Health Cities Citizens’ Juries Report (2017)
Aim: “to understand better how the public balances [the] competing goals [of improved care and health services and protecting individual's privacy]” around planned and potential uses of data.
Sample/method: 36 people in 2 citizens juries
URL: https://www.connectedhealthcities.org/what-is-a-chc/public-engagment/citizens-juries-chc/citizens-juries/
Healthwatch England How do people feel about their data being shared by the NHS? (2018)
Aim: “to understand more about people's attitudes towards how their data is used”
Sample/method: 2,000 surveys
URL: https://www.healthwatch.co.uk/news/how-do-people-feel-about-their-data-being-shared-nhs
Healthwatch Surrey (2015) If I've told you once …. People's views on record sharing between the health and care professionals involved in their care in Surrey
Aim: “[to investigate] the views of people in Surrey around sharing of health and care records between the health and care professionals involved in their care”
Sample/method: 577 surveys
URL: https://www.healthwatchsurrey.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/If-Ive-told-you-once-Peoples-views-on-record-sharing-between-health-and-social-care-professionals-FULL-REPORT.pdf
New Economics Foundation Who Sees What: Exploring public views on personal electronic health records (2010)
Aim: “how [people] understand the Health Service’s obligation to safeguard their privacy”
Sample/method: 6,000 through deliberative events, public consultation stalls, classroom activities
URL: https://neweconomics.org/uploads/files/2cb17ab59382fe7c67_bfm6bdoas.pdf
Stockdale. J, Cassell. J and Ford. E, “Giving something back”: A systematic review and ethical enquiry of public opinions on the use of patient data for research in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (2018)
Aim: “[we] aimed to systematically review the literature on UK and Irish public opinions of medical data use in research”
Sample/method: systematic review
URL: https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/3-6/v1
Tully. MP, Bozentko. K, Clement. S, Hunn. A, Hassan. L, Norris. R, Oswald. M, Peek. N Investigating the Extent to Which Patients Should Control Access to Patient Records for Research (2018)
Aim: “The aim of this project was to extend knowledge about what control informed citizens would seek over the use of health records for research after participating in a deliberative process using citizens’ juries.”
Sample/method: Two 3-day citizens juries
URL: http://www.jmir.org/2018/3/e112/
Wellcome The One-Way Mirror: Public attitudes to commercial access to health data (2015)
Aim: “to understand how attitudes towards commercial access to health data are formed and influenced, among a cross-section of the British general public and with specific audiences such as healthcare professionals, patients, and members of cohort studies.”
Sample/method: 16 workshops with 246 people, including general public, GP's and hospital doctors and people with a long term condition
URL: https://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/public-attitudes-to-commercial-access-to-health-data-wellcome-mar16.pdf
Wellcome Wellcome Trust Monitor Report Wave 3 Chapter 6 (2015)
Aim: “[examines public] willingness to allow their medical records, and genetic information, to be used in medical research studies, and what concerns they may have about this.”
Sample/method: 1,524 interviews
URL: https://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/monitor-wave3-full-wellcome-apr16.pdf
The RSA has, of course, evolved over its 260 year history and today our strapline is ’21st century enlightenment’ – everything we do works towards our mission of achieving social progress; today, the RSA is about creating and promoting ‘enterprises for the common good’ in a 21st century context.
A network of 30,000 Fellows – people from every field and background who are committed to our aims of achieving social progress, including some well known people like David Attenborough, Lily Cole, Stephen Fry
One of the things the RSA does is run a free, public events programme (similar to the TED talks) which aims to spread good ideas.
Finally the research centre which is where I sit, that looks at a massive range of issues, from public services to education to manufacturing…and I have worked on a specific theme of research on deliberative democracy.
In public dialogue, it’s recognised that underlying values help us to understand why citizens hold particular opinions or perspectives. Values underpin people’s preferences for one course of action over another, and, in turn preferences are premised on what people believe about how actions will affect the things they value. While citizens are unlikely to all share the same views, a dialogue can enhance mutual understanding of facts and values, as well as appreciate differences. Although citizens do not have to reach a consensus, there is some evidence that reflection about and articulation of value can reduce conflict and enable compromise.
Deliberation is the process where citizens exchange arguments and consider different claims with the ultimate goal of serving the public good.
The idea of mini-publics was first proposed four decades ago (by political scientist Robert Dahl) as an innovative mechanism for involving citizens in dealing with public issues.
Mini-publics seek to answer a fundamental question: How would the public deal with an issue if they had the time and resources to learn and deliberate about it in order to reach an informed decision?
There are various forms of mini-publics from Citizens’ Juries, to Planning Cells, Consensus Conferences, Deliberative Polls and Citizens’ Assemblies. They have some features in common, these are also crucial to ensuring the process is robust and legitimate.
• Citizens are tasked with helping to resolve a pressing problem that requires navigating multiple trade-offs and considering more than one possible and realistic solution (and this solution is not pre-determined).
• This group of citizens is a small group (in numbers between 24 and 48) who are randomly selected from a local, regional or national community. Roughly representative of the demographics of that community – age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status.
• The group spends a generally long period of time (eg a few sessions over the course of two to three months) learning about and deliberating on a policy issue from different angles. They will hear from a range of experts – academic, practitioner, or those with lived experience of the issue.
• Citizens are not asked for their individual opinion on an issue, but to deliberate on behalf of their community with the aim of reaching a consensus or compromise.
• The group produces concrete recommendations for decisionmakers, who then respond directly and publicly to the proposals.
Adapted from Sherry Arnstien’s ladder of participation.
Not completely within ‘empower’ as final decision is still made by the commissioning body – BUT should provide good reason as to why not accepted for the process to be seen as legitimate and not tokenistic.
Involve: Citizens’ Assembly on Social Care.
set up as part of the inquiry into the long-term funding of adult social care being carried out by the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee and the Health and Social Care Committee.
The Assembly was held over two weekends in April and May 2018 in Birmingham. The Assembly Members were 47 randomly selected people from England.
This was the first Citizens’ Assembly in the UK to be commissioned and run by Parliament. The project was successful in engaging members of the public and in influencing the Select Committees’ findings. The Committees drew heavily on the findings and referenced the Assembly throughout their own report.
The Select Committee Chairs Sarah Wollaston MP and Clive Betts MP have advocated for the findings of the Citizens’ Assembly and the model of engagement in their speeches in parliament.
The Irish Citizens’ Assembly:
The Irish Citizens’ Assembly, sponsored by the Government.
There were 99 citizen Members of the Assembly, in addition to the Chairperson. Members were chosen at random to represent the views of the people of Ireland, and were broadly representative of society as reflected in the Census, including age, gender, social class, regional spread etc. They must also have been on the electoral register to vote in a referendum.
They were asked to consider several things, the most contentious being: the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (which concerns abortion);
Citizens gave 5 weekends of lives – and heard from legal and medical experts as well as women’s organisations, church organisations as well as those who had experienced the issue, both women who had chosen to and not to have an abortion.
Their recommendation was to hold a nationwide referendum on the process. Parliamentary joint committee set up to discuss the recommendations from the assembly and decided to run with the referendum. 26 May 2018 – Ireland voted to repeal the anti-abortion law by 66%.
It was the second deliberative democracy exercise in Ireland, following its predecessor the Convention on the Constitution which ran from 2012 – 2014. The referendum on same sex marriage was born out of that process and it was approved by 62% of voters. 22 May 2015
Most often used in Australia and Canada (1 in 67 households has received an invitation to participate), but Involve have been running similar processes in the UK for the last decade through the Sciencewise programme.
Our motivation for the programme was a view that the quality of economic debate in the UK was poor and deteriorating. The conduct of the national political conversation leading up to the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union (EU) served only to strengthen our view.
By distilling a hugely complex issue such as Brexit into a black and white, yes or no vote, the political debate excluded more nuanced concerns of people across the country including their dreams, hopes and fears on issues such as jobs, immigration, regional inequality within the UK and democratic concerns over the structure of the EU.
There is a widening chasm not just between expert and citizen, but also between citizen and citizen. These diverging views in and of themselves are not problematic, but we argue that it is the failure of these perspectives to engage critically and respectfully with each other that is undermining the quality of public discourse on the economy and the quality of our democracy.
We set out to explore these issues and our hypothesis was…
We did this work through 2 main phases – the Roadshow, and council itself. But also created a toolkit in collaboration with Economy, and worked with an online ideas management platform: Wazoku, to crowdsource policy ideas from the wider public as different challenges came up in the council.
So first the roadshow….
Throughout this process we brought together experts/specialists to talk about their areas of work or explain different concepts – we deliberately used the term expert to breakdown the false separation between expert and citizen (not to mention many of our citizens were specialists within their own field), that we all have useful contributions to make. And also to make the point that there is a place for expertise or specialist knowledge in public economic debate – but we were interested in working together and over this time created a charter.
We created a space for listening and collaboration.
Day 1: How to allocate resources in our economy, chair exercise.
Day 2: Institutional decision-making, invited various experts, how money is created. “toothfairy”
Day 3: Explored supply chains, how different sectors of our economy work/connect with each and what implications technological and environmental changes are having.
Day 4: Citizens asked to create their own policies - policy triangle: cheap/poverty busting/has the right incentives. sugar tax as a way it’s hard to trade off
Within a traditional deliberative process, those involved undergo a process of learning. Creation of the charter throughout process. Sustainability – different aspects.
May seem like rather high-level values, but within discussing how to achieve these things we unearthed what different assumptions people had about the way the world worked and the different routes of action they preferred. Hopefully you will hear more from Shuna and Eniola about this?
Transparency is not just about providing information but doing so in a way that is accessible – jargon busting, this means citizens are better equipped to hold decision-makers to account. Many citizens felt that more needs to be done to teach the basics of economics and politics at an early age and wanted to see it introduced within the curriculum.
Lack of diversity of representation in politics also meant that the decisions made also consistently benefitted the same groups of people and solutions offered were very narrow. They thought that policy that considered many perspectives would be more effective and more legitimate.
Many factors influence whether at all and how much citizens want to participate in making decisions on the economy: 1. they wanted barriers to be removed so that any citizen can be involved as much as they wish to be, this speaks to a wider point on inclusive growth and access to resources, but more relevant perhaps is 2. citizens have different options and routes to get involved should they wish to – particularly relevant at a local level where they see the impact of national policymaking and have a greater sense of agency.
Most importantly and this came out very strongly in the 6-month post CEC evaluation interviews we did – council members felt they had learnt a lot and better understood the economic system, the institutions within it, and the different experts/policymakers they had met. BUT this did not translate into trust for most people. They wanted to see action and change before they would trust citizen participation or engagement processes and the actors involved in running or commissioning them.
Really important that power is shared within these processes and there is a real route to influence, otherwise they could conversely cause participants to disengage and lose trust.
We saw clear benefits for the citizens who participated in the Council in terms of their sense of agency and self-esteem, and hence their capacity to influence the economy and engage in economic debate. For example, the number of citizens stating that they did not know what influence they had over the economy halved, and two out of three reported a significant increase in their sense of agency over economic issues.
Testimony of someone saying they had never been more aware then they were after the process on how important the economy was to their life and that this would be the first election they would truly make an informed decision.
Patricia thinking about becoming a councillor, Nathalie encouraging colleagues to increase their pension contributions, Ahmed beginning research to design a tool to help people with their personal finances.
However deliberation is not a tool for mass literacy or public education.
It is impossible to represent all 65 million people living in the UK within a deliberative process, for example and would be rather costly. What it can do however is bring together a greater diversity of voices than currently exist in the media or in our representative form of democracy, and use their different perspectives to explore and widen the debate on how and why we make decisions.
Just as the British public trust our criminal jury system despite not having necessarily served on one, an opinion survey we commissioned to Populus revealed that 47% of people would trust economic policymaking more if they knew that ordinary citizens had been formally involved in the process.
Example of using one of these before Brexit – perhaps we could have had a set of multiple choice questions, whether or not to remain in the customs union, what stance on immigration there should be for example.
Deliberation has a role to play in building a stronger democracy. Its role is not to replace forms of either representative or direct democracy, but to complement and strengthen them. Deliberation strengthens representative democracy by shortening the feedback loops between decision-makers and those governed. It strengthens direct democracy by ensuring that, before individuals cast a direct vote on an issue, they have directly participated in, or at least observed, a vibrant and respectful democratic discourse.
At our launch event the Chief Economist of the Bank of England, Andy Haldane accepted our recommendation for the Bank and will be piloting the use of citizen reference panels at each of the Bank’s 12 Regional Agents.
We are carrying forward lessons and learnings from this programme of work into a new project, funded by Google DeepMind, where we have been running a citizens’ jury on Ethics and AI, with the question: ‘under what conditions, if any, is it appropriate to use an automated decision-making system’.
Much stricter recruitment spec for this including attitudes towards AI.
Condensed the format of the days…
Some very interesting discussions coming out of that process, different sectors where the jury are more or less comfortable for AI and automated decision-systems to be used, what kind of explanation they would want if subject to an automated decision, and broader concerns on public or private profit and data privacy.
Anyway, enough from me/the RSA – hear what citizens who have been through this process think…