Event details
This Patient Partnership Week webinar will look at how to make shared decision making standard practice across the whole of healthcare. The webinar will feature Patients Association Trustee Prof Alf Collins, former national director for personalised care.
The webinar will explore the benefits to patients and the health system of shared decision making, what we know about the barriers preventing its wider use, and what has to happen to make its practice more widespread across all types of health services.
The event will be chaired by The Patients Association's Head of Patient Partnership Sarah Tilsed. Trustee Professor Alf Collins will be on the panel. From 2016-2023, Prof Collins was NHS England’s National Clinical Director for personalised care and shared decision making, care planning, self management support, social prescribing and health literacy sat within his policy portfolio. Prof Collins led on implementation of Universal Personalised Care, one of five key shifts for the NHS in the 2019 Long Term Plan.
They will be joined by patient Jess Plant and Dr Paul Grundy, Chief Medical Officer and Consultant Neurosurgeon for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
The Patients Association also hope to have patients and health professionals on the panel to talk about their experiences of shared decision making. Panellists will share practical tips about embedding shared decision making in every day practice.