Participatory healthcare service design and innovation

  • Authors:
  • Simon Bowen;Andy Dearden;Peter Wright;Daniel Wolstenholme;Mark Cobb

  • Affiliations:
  • Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK;Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK;Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK;Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Glossop Road Sheffield, UK;Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Glossop Road Sheffield, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper describes the use of Experience Based Design (EBD), a participatory methodology for healthcare service design, to improve the outpatient service for older people at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. The challenges in moving from stories to designing improvements, co-designing for wicked problems, and the effects of participants' limited scopes of action are discussed. It concludes by proposing that such problems are common to participatory service design in large institutions and recommends that future versions of EBD incorporate more tools to promote divergent thinking.