READ The Patient Leadership Triangle: A practical engagement model for transforming healthcare by David Gilbert

[Alies Maybee]

David is a long time patient partner in the UK and an extremely thoughtful person.

David Gilbert was the first Patient Director in the UK Health Service. He is author of The Patient Revolution: how we can heal the healthcare system (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020). He was a pioneer of the concept of Patient Leadership and has worked for 35 years in healthcare at a local, national and international level – originally as a patient-consumer activist and latterly as a patient and public engagement specialist. His work spans roles within commissioner, provider, third sector, academic and regulatory organisations. David is a mental health service user, poet and Writer-In-Residence for the Bethlem Gallery. His first full poetry collection, ‘The Rare Bird Recovery Protocol’, was released in April this year. He is Founder and Director of InHealth Associates UK, who provide support, research and training on patient-citizen leadership, coproduction and patient and public engagement.

Much food for thought and discussion. Here is a link to the eBook: https://go.bangthetable.com/ebook/patient-leadership-triangle

[John Sherber]

Thank you for this resource. For me Patient Leadership equates to
Patient Activation.

Patient Activation Measurement (PAM) An individual’s knowledge, skill and confidence for managing their health and their health care
If we consider how challenged our HC system is consider this:
There is now an opportunity for patients to take the term “partners” to a higher level

If care is a partnership and a partnership is the meeting of equals what is the patient bringing to the relationship?