Paul, Christian, and Tina weave the foundational content for coproducing healthcare service and a frame for thinking. They reflect on several possible additional themes for subsequent attention. They discuss some of the personal tips that have been helpful in their own thinking & work to further the work of coproducing healthcare service. They hint at the exciting challenges they see moving forward.
Guests
Christian von Plessen
Senior advisor for health care quality and safety to the Health Authority of the Canton of Vaud.
More about Christian
Christian also works as senior physician at the University Centre for General Medicine and Public Health and as associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark after clinical (pulmonology), teaching and research appointments in Denmark and Norway.
His focus is on coproduction as a way to improve health, health care service and public health.
Tina Foster
MD, MPH, MS, Professor Ob-Gyn and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
More about Tina
Tina is a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health, VA Quality Scholars fellowship program, and the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth.
In addition to her ob-gyn practice, she teaches about health care improvement in the MPH programs of The Dartmouth Institute and serves as Associate Program Director for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine residency, a unique program focused on developing health professionals able to improve systems and outcomes.
She is a member of the International Coproduction of Health Network (ICoHN) steering committee.
Supplementary materials
Readings
Foster T, Batalden P. New ways of working: health professional development for effective coproduction. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2021; 33(S2):6-7. https://doi.org/10.1093/intqIhc/mzab055.
Forcino R, von Plessen C. Coproducing value during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2021; 33(S2):64-65. https://doi.org/10.1093/intqIhc/mzab056.
Batalden P, Foster T. From assurance to coproduction: a century of improving the quality of health-care service. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2021; 33(S2), 10-14. https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzab059.