Episode 1
Coproduction is everywhere
Paul invites his guests, Kathryn Sabadosa and David Leach, to share a time when healthcare services worked well.
Kathryn describes the experience of her son, born 20+ years ago with Cystic Fibrosis. She describes the recent changes in the routine care for people with CF and the way together they are changing “good” care for him, and some of the ways that COVID-19 has changed her son’s interactions with professionals.
David describes his experience deciding to have heart surgery. He focuses on how he sought out the ‘person’ in the professionals he met and worked with.
After a three-way conversation, Paul offers this episode’s takeaways, focused on the importance of discovering and noticing coproduction in daily healthcare services
Guests
MPH, Director of Quality Improvement and Innovation, Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Foundation, founded by people with CF and their families
MD, former Executive Director of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
Supplementary material
Reading
There are many 1st person accounts of coproduction that are emerging. One account from the perspective of a faculty member in a public administration program is instructive: Jeffrey D. Straussman (2020): Co-production at the front line: a user reflection on theory and practice, Public Management Review, doi: 10.1080/14719037.2020.1784635Many reports of the knowledge needed for coproduction. One example: Redman S, Greenhalgh T, Adedokun L, et al. Co-production of knowledge: the future. BMJ 2021;372:n434. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n434
Self-study
Find a learning partner and interview them.
a. Some suggestions for finding a learning partner—someone with whom you could learn more about “coproducing healthcare service” and its implications The learning partner should be:- A "different” actor than you are, but who has been a “patient-person” and who is willing to reflect with you on that experience
- A person who is curious, available, and preferably not in any direct clinical relationship with you
- A person who is engaged in the management of a long-term health challenge or who is actively engaged in “owning” their own health
- To reflectively become a better leader
- To practice building useful information in some new ways
- To become a better listener
- To be a better ‘noticer’
- To better understand what it might be like to 'walk in another person's shoes'
- To learn how to think about 'health' in the way others do
- To practice thinking in different ways about health
- To better understand, practice different ways of thinking and acting for better health
- To better understand and learn how different people act on things that are important for them
- To better understand how people deal with 'health' issues during busy lives
- To learn how to join another person's efforts to be as healthy as they can be
- To help me know when my questions are good ones, when they are helpful, when they are the “right ones” to let me know when you think I’m on the right track
- To be a better partner and to foster better partnerships…so I can help others lead an even healthier life
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