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Re: Patient partnership at BMJ
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Only by working together can we improve the health and wellbeing of people and the planet
Pressures on health systems around the world continue to mount, and staff shortages, long waiting lists, and delays for essential treatment are putting an unprecedented strain on health services.1 In the UK, National Voices, a leading patient organisation, argues that the UK’s current healthcare workforce crisis is “badly impacting people’s experience of health and care.”2 The experience of patients and the public can and should contribute to finding solutions to the pressure on the health services. But their voices are often marginalised.
The BMJ has been a vocal champion of patient partnership for over 20 years, but in 2014 our focus shifted to developing in-house expertise, policies, and capabilities, including patient editors, a patient advisory panel, peer review by patients, co-production of articles, and firmer requirements for authors of research studies to include a statement on
WHO framework promotes meaningful engagement of people with health conditions
In May 2023 the WHO launched a framework to engage people with non-communicable diseases in co-creating healthcare.1 The aim is to guide and support member states in engaging people with non-communicable diseases, including those with mental health and neurological conditions, in creating all aspects of healthcare, from policies to services. The framework is the fourth and last report of a series that started in 2021 by defining and justifying the motto “nothing for us, without us.”23 This set the expectation that nothing about people living with a non-communicable condition would be done without their involvement. All the reports have relied on people with lived experience bringing their views in informal consultations, reporting their experiences of health policies and care, and making comments and recommendations on drafts before publication.
The framework defines meaningful engagement as “the resp