This is a guest post from Sophia Hatfield of Pathways, a Manchester-based consultation and community engagement organisation.
I’ve been running Democs games across the North West with the Pathways Team and have consulted lots of different groups with very different reasons to take an interest the project. Most Patient Groups and Forums seem to have very [...]

We’re super excited to be launching our new materials for people with learning disabilities which we have developed in partnerhip with a great organisation called Social Interface.
One of the core values of the project is that in order for policy to work, it needs input from everybody. When we made our Democs discussion game we [...]

The Department of Health last year ran a consultation into who should have access to patients’ medical data. More precisely, they wanted to know about ‘additional uses’ of patient records, apart from the patients’ medical care, and about the different systems which should be in place for ‘anonymised’ and ‘identifiable’ records. They had public meetings [...]

We’re super-excited to say that our discussion kits are available to download today. The discussion kits are the key to the Who Sees What? consultation process – they’re a neat little box that contains everything you need to hold your own discussion on electronic patient records and feed back to the outcomes.
And if you want [...]

As the project really begins to kick off here at Who Sees What? we are proud to report that our events page was recently christened by two drop-in events in Manchester. Rather than using our ‘Democs’ game, our lovely colleagues at Pathways will be using some mini ‘argument maps’ to stimulate thought and discussion. You [...]

Over at the Guardian’s Smarthealthcare, details of a new announcement by David Cameron may prove concerning for privacy advocates. Against a background of significant criticism of the NHS IT programme by the opposition, the Tory leader has suggested a different approach to the management of our healthcare data. His inspiration is Google Health and Microsoft [...]

Welcome to the brand new website of the Who Sees What? project. Who Sees What? is a project to give ordinary people the opportunity to discover, discuss and decide about the new ways in which the NHS wants to use electronic patient records.
On this site, you’ll be able to read more about the proposals for [...]