Helping people share decision making
This report brings together evidence and provides an up-to-date single reference point for the cu...
The MAGIC programme: evaluation
Shared decision making is a process in which clinicians and patients work together to choose test...
Implementing shared decision making
The Health Foundation’s MAGIC (Making good decisions in collaboration) improvement programme aime...
Ask three questions
Sometimes there will be choices to make about your healthcare. If you are asked to make a choice, make sure you get the answers to these three questions: What are my options? What are the b...
Let's talk about palliative care
This month’s Health Affairs contains a touching narrative by Amy Berman, a US health foundation executive who, with the help of a doctor that respected her goals, chose palliative care over aggress...
A week is a long time in shared decision making
Last week was a week worthy of reflection. Monday saw the publication of the information strategy – The power of information – which sets a ten-year framework for transforming information for th...
Shared decision making: a common understanding
There is an emerging consensus amongst professionals, patients and politicians that patients have a central role in the decision making process about their health. But scratch the surface of tha...
Shared decision making: whose life is it anyway?
I had a conversation recently with two midwives. Both had been trained in shared decision making and had the ‘light bulb’ moment when they realised that, although they thought they’d been providing...
Shared decision making: skills trump tools, attitudes trump all
Two weeks ago we brought together over 100 people to mark the end of our MAGIC programme, which supported teams to embed shared decision making in everyday clinical practice. There were some great ...
Quiet bravery: how two local health economies are transforming their health and social care
'What we know is that our current models for delivering long-term care aren’t sustainable. We can’t keep being paternalistic and wanting to fix everybody and expecting everybody to just comply with...
