Podcast

The Power of Coproduction

The Power of Coproduction is a podcast series about redesigning health care services to achieve better health through mutual respect, collaboration, and science-informed practices.

With the help of guests and their stories, the podcasts explore the lived experiences of patients and professionals engaged in the use and design of services to achieve better health for individuals and populations through mutual respect, collaboration, and science-informed practice. The episodes describe many forms of useful “knowing” that can contribute to and become integral to daily work and benefit learners, practitioners, beneficiaries, improvers, and researchers.

Paul has been outlining this podcast series in his head, both the topics and the stories that would best illustrate them, for some time

The production team has had the enviable task of working with Paul regularly for several months to turn his thinking into a cogent set of episodes and to determine the best way for listeners to access them.

The Power of Coproduction podcast series is now available thanks to the communication technology and internet homes at the International Coproduction of Health Network (ICoHN) at the Jönköping Academy for the Improvement of Health and Welfare in Jönköping University in Sweden, the Health Assessment Laboratory at Dartmouth and The Coproduction Laboratory in The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice in the Geisel School of Medicine in the US.

Each episode in the podcast series highlights a different dimension of coproduction

Each episode in the podcast series highlights a different dimension of coproduction and over the course of the series, it becomes evident how all the dimensions are interrelated. Paul is joined on each episode by one or two guests whose stories help illustrate how coproduction offers a new lens and way of doing things to achieve optimal care. Every episode concludes with Paul’s ‘takeaways’, consisting of key lessons, new ideas to ponder, and encouragement to start applying them.

For those interested in further exploration, a set of study questions and some helpful references can be found in the supplementary materials that will accompany each podcast on this website.

For those eager to discuss the episodes in the podcast series with other listeners, Paul and his colleagues will be facilitating conversation thru LinkedIn, opens in new window. You can also reach us by sending an inquiry to Paul’s email.

Eventually, transcripts and selected language translations will be available on this website.

Podcast Episodes

Introduction

Paul on Coproduction Distilling many years of experience examining the different applications of the coproduction of healthcare service in diverse settings, Paul Batalden describes a way of understanding its key components. He shares some of the knowledge, skills and habits that contribute to coproducing a healthcare service along with the implications and benefits of new framing to improve health care overall. Transcript Supplementary material Reading Batalden P. Getting more health from healthcare: quality improvement must ...

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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 ...

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Episode 2: The person will see you now

Lotta Arvidsson worked with a learning partner to gain insight into the lived reality of someone struggling with congestive heart failure. She was subsequently able to apply some of those approaches to her practice as a primary care physician. Serena Chao found a way to visualize the setting in which her patient’s family was making decisions that relied heavily on the emergency care system. This enabled Serena to identify and implement changes in her geriatric ...

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Episode 3: Let’s get real: the way things are

When healthcare “professionals'' listen to the steps people must take to get healthcare services, and what those experiences are actually like, understanding begins. As these stories unfold there’s opportunity for gaining even greater insight into the surprises and the feelings associated with the “patient” journey. This is what happened for Julie and Chandlee as each took in what patients had to navigate to get necessary care and support. It was eye opening to say the ...

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Episode 4: Allow me to empower you: the wisdom of self-care

What started as an intervention has become a way of being for Fiona Jones and her colleagues. Fiona started with her clinical training as a physical therapist, which meant doing things “to” patient-persons. When she moved from hospital settings to home settings, she began to appreciate the variety of PT practices people had come up with on their own. She began to wonder, “what if we combined forces?” Fiona shares her insights with Paul into ...

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Episode 5: Stop talking! Equity begins by listening

Sonja and Diane knew that as an organization they could do better with their services for African-American women during pregnancy. The two nurse leaders, who’d also served as nurse midwives, began a program of active listening to improve their understanding of pregnant womens’ stories, observations, questions, frustrations...and so much more. As Sonja and Diane built “DIVA Moms” they worked to connect what they heard with what they and their colleagues did. Together, they built a ...

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