Working towards People Powered Health resource
A study by independent charity, Nesta, gathered insights from practitioners, including the RCN, on creating a healthcare system in which clinicians and patients collaborate, known as “co-production”, to enable people to live better with their conditions. This resource focuses on the challenges for professionals and, in particular, how workforce culture needs to change to enable co-production to move from the margins to the mainstream.
Nesta asked a range of experts - clinical, academic, policy as well as commissioners and service providers - to write down their ideas about the relationship between co-production and workforce culture. The responses are an interesting snapshot of the perspectives of experienced professionals working in and around co-production and health. Some focus on incentive structures, such as recruitment, training and appraisal systems, while others focus on less tangible changes to professional practice, culture and behaviour.