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3 (Three) Secrets Hospitals Don't Want You To Know by Mark E. Meaney, Ph.D. on Apple Books
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Many patients are successfully treating themselves but it shouldn't have to be this way. Patients have been calling for many years for choice and self-determination over their own health. However, as loud as patients shout, their calls for self-empowerment fall on the deaf ears of clinicians and the Royal Colleges and professional "Societies". Thyroid patients have been battling for years to have choices of medication and for a more comprehensive diagnostic procedure. Yet the RCP and RCGP refuse to engage and wilfully ignore patient calls for clinicians to consider all available evidence as opposed to cherrypicking evidence that suits the Colleges' own narrow doctor-centred positions.
Instead they release guidelines that are not evidence based, that are full of inaccuracies and that rely on doctor-centred GOBSAT-derived protocols. There is no accountability to patients or transparency within these organisations. They are not subject to FOI, yet make decisions that have deleterious effects on patient health. Doctors only want to listen to patients who reflect back to them what they want to hear.
Doctors don't want to hear about their own failures to treat properly or to diagnose properly. Doctors don't want to hear about other available options. If patients complain about the lack of care they receive, doctors psychopathologise the patients to try and shut them up.
Power to patients could be reflected by the DOH and NHS England by ensuring patients did not receive cancellation after cancellation to their appointments,they could also ensure if cancelled the patient was notified and did not turn up to then find out their appointment had been cancelled without telling then!!!! I really liked the Jane Price summing up of the current situation. Roger Taylor is right to point out that the NHS reforms and government response to the Francis report have done little to shift accountability away from the centre and outwards towards patients.
The issue is however more complex than the blog suggests. Here are some questions which could usefully be discussed 1. What do we mean by empowerment is this context and how do we know which aspects of their care patients might want to have control over? What would empowerment look like if considered independently of this? Trust can be badly undermined when things go wrong, as the Mid Staffs debacle shows. Is it not, however, a valuable attribute when underpinned by respect, clear explanations, good evidence, honesty, openness and candour?
In God Bless the NHS Taylor suggests that doctors should see their patients as chief executives of their care and his blog concludes that they should replace upward accountability to managers and politicians with downward accountability to patients. Is this realistic or simply hyperbole? Would the model of partnership working between doctors and their patients be more appropriate? Many patients encounter huge problems e. Is it reasonable to expect patients who are already stressed or overwhelmed to take charge of their care? The Francis Report emphasises the importance of cultural change and the need for everyone involved in the NHS to listen to patients.
There is good work going on in this area through patient feedback websites and in some NHS trusts.
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Examples include collecting patient stories, undertaking experience mapping projects, and involving foundation trust governors in projects to improve the quality of care and patient experience. This aims to improve the experience of patients and change the culture of the trust by working with staff and patients.
Such projects, which are largely empirically based, will hopefully change the relationship between clinicians and their patients and empower patients in ways that are grounded in the reality of their everyday lives. Roger makes some interesting observations but I would like to ask what evidence lies behind his assertion that patients are reluctant to have more involvement in decisions because this would undermine their trust in doctors? There is good, long term evidence that a persistent minority of patients and about half of hospital inpatients are not as involved in decisions as they would like.
One could just as easily and with more justice in my view make the assertion that it is the doctors and the managers who are the main obstacles, rather than the patients. FT governors, who are elected by FT members, can play a useful role in Foundation Trusts, as they represent patients and the public, as already mentioned by Veronica Beechey.
They should have good access to Directors and can help to improve communication between hospital staff and the public.
Should a similar model be used elsewhere in the NHS? I would like every patient contact with me to involve a transfer of power towards the patient: A large part of this is to do with transfer of data and information that underpins good intelligence and decision making. Being open with people's own data is key to this.
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I realise that I am still very much in the foothills of patient empowerment when I look at the way that information is owned and processed in http: Even in these systems the patient always pays some sort of opportunity cost. Greater transparency about the constraints of the system could lead to greater equity, but the inverse care law is likely to apply. By contrast, in "supply driven" healthcare systems market type systems true empowerment may result in people choosing less intervention and reduced risk of iatrogenic harm.
One day, when I ask "do you mind if I check your Blood Pressure" an empowered patient might reply "yes, I do mind"! From my point of view, as a patient who has spent 35 years with a chronic illness, empowerment means allowing me to actively manage the condition with my health professionals in order to give the best outcome that suits my attitudes and lifestyle. It also allows me to contact them between consultations, if I have to. Nowadays my main interaction is with the hospital consultants, from three different disciplines, as they provide the bulk of my care.
Interaction with my GP is minimal, usually consisting of a catch-up every so many months where I update him with what has happened and can ask for his independent opinion if I'm reaching a decision point. There is a lead consultant who co-ordinates the three disciplines at high level but where I have been able to make a difference is ensuring that tests or appointments happen in the right sequence and in a timely manner. There have been several occasions when had I not taken the initiative, and simply allowed the system to proceed at its own pace, I would still be waiting for an outcome.
This is has not been an attempt to jump any queues but to make sure the limited NHS resources are used effectively, not wasted. It takes some of the burden off of the consultant that should free up his, or his team's, time for more important tasks.
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I take this pro-active approach because it gives me confidence that treatment is progressing and the process has not stalled. When I enter a consulting room I expect an equal partnership where any decisions that affect my health are made jointly. The consultant brings the medical knowledge, experience and expertise to the partnership and I bring my history from 35 years of living with the condition and the knowledge of my personal circumstances which will have a bearing on any decisions that we make.
Having this relationship with my consultants does put a duty on me to act responsibly. When I contact them by email I need to be sure that it is absolutely necessary. If I just need some simple, practical advice there is a dedicated helpline who can escalate a problem if they believe it is necessary.
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The above approach has been working well. The final piece of the jigsaw would be to have full access, electronically, to my medical records. I believe this will be coming soon but would like to know how the reams of hand written notes will be processed. I've taken to recording my progress in case it proves useful to others - www.
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Patient Choice How Patients Chose and How Providers Respond by Anna Dixon and others illustrates the gap between patient views of choice and GP views - patients express enthusiasm while the GPs tend to say their patients are not interested. So why is the GPs experience of patient enthusiasm for choice in the surgery so different from what patients say in research surveys? Perhaps because patients like the idea of choice but only with if supported by their doctor.
If our doctor says not to worry about it, we are likely to follow their advice. After all, it is their advice we came for. So how do we try to get all the patients who say they like the idea of having choices able to actually make decisions about their care. I reckon it is going to be harder to persuade patients to be more challenging to doctors than it is to persuade doctors to be more encouraging to patients.
However, I don't know that there any evidence for that But either way, I would certainly agree that it certainly will require a bit of both push and pull.
