200 Stakeholders Discussed Care in the Healthcare System
Professor Victor Montori from the US Mayo Clinic was a main attraction to a lot of participants, when person-centered healthcare was debated on Tuesday 22 January from a Danish and American perspective, respectively, and focus was on both patients, staff, professional medical competency and the ‘system’.
Associate Professor Maria Kristiansen shared her experience from being a close relative of a terminally ill child and explained how her research sheds a light on the importance of personal care, presence and intimacy.
Associate Professor and Research Director Maria Kristiansen from the Center for Healthy Ageing and Department of Public Health had organised the innovative dialogue meeting between a number of stakeholders all interested in patient-centred treatment. The concept had been carefully thought out down to the smallest detail and signalled responsiveness, care and equality at all levels.
Using a digital dialogue tool, the participants wrote down questions, comments and suggestions for future research projects throughout the day, just as the main points of all presentations were illustrated graphically.
Need for More Direct Dialogue
The high number of participants from the healthcare system shows that the debate on personalised treatment is on a lot of people’s agenda and an important part of the future healthcare system. Both management, practitioners and clinicians from a number of hospitals in both the Capital Region of Denmark and Region Zealand participated in the event. Patients associations like the Danish Heart Foundation, the Danish Parkinson’s Foundation, the Danish Psoriasis Foundation and the Danish Society for Patient Safety were represented alongside the WHO, the Danish Cancer Society, the Danish Healthy Authority, the Steno Diabetes Center, the City of Copenhagen, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, care homes, Novo Nordisk A/S and other universities.
‘The concept is a strong example of a carefully thought out and thoroughly prepared outreach activity. At the Center for Healthy Ageing we have previously experimented with new meeting formats. In the future, we wish to organise more meetings between researchers, professionals and citizens, experimenting with the formats and putting people’s own experience into play for longer than the usual 10-minute Q&A session. I have no doubt that there is a great need for being able to discuss things face to face than usually seen at the university’, says Anéh Christina Hajdu, Head of Communication at SUND and Outreach Director at the Center for Healthy Ageing.
Read more about the seminar: https://sundaldring.ku.dk/kalender/2019/person-centred-care-in-the-us-and-in-denmark/