Co-Producing and Co-Designing

Examines the origins and development of co-production and co-design and their application in healthcare, including opportunities and challenges.

Glenn Robert (Author), Louise Locock (Author), Oli Williams (Author), Jocelyn Cornwell (Author), Sara Donetto (Author), Joanna Goodrich (Author)

9781009237031, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 September 2022

75 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm, 0.09 kg

Many healthcare improvement approaches originated in manufacturing, where end users are framed as consumers. But in healthcare, greater recognition of the complexity of relationships between patients, staff, and services (beyond a provider-consumer exchange) is generating new insights and approaches to healthcare improvement informed directly by patient and staff experience. Co-production sees patients as active contributors to their own health and explores how interactions with staff and services can best be supported. Co-design is a related but distinct creative process, where patients and staff work in partnership to improve services or develop interventions. Both approaches are promoted for their technocratic benefits (better experiences, more effective and safer services) and democratic rationales (enabling inclusivity and equity), but the evidence base remains limited. This Element explores the origins of co-production and co-design, the development of approaches in healthcare, and associated challenges; in reviewing the evidence, it highlights the implications for practice and research. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

1. Introduction
2. What Are Co-Production and Co-Design?
3. Co-Production and Co-Design in Action
4. Challenges and Critiques of Co-Production and EBCD
5. The Evidence Base
6. Conclusions
7. Further Reading
Contributors
References.

Subject Areas: Health systems & services [MBP], Public health & preventive medicine [MBN], Medical research [MBGR]