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Action Plan Launched for Delivering Shared Decision Making in the UK

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Professors Hilary Bekker (left) and Barbara Summers (right)

Professors Hilary Bekker (School of Medicine, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences) and Barbara Summers (CDR co-director, Leeds University Business School) are part of the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Shared Decision Making Collaborative.

The Shared Decision Making Collaborative launched their action plan and consensus statement for delivering Shared Decision Making in the UK on Monday 19 September 2016.

Over two years, three consensus meetings were held, overviews of evidence and practice were critically evaluated (eg patient decision aids), and all stakeholders contributed to draft statements and the future strategy for the collaborative.

The University of Leeds committed to undertaking research in the field of decision science and sharing that expertise with both NICE and NHS England, particularly on the interface between patient decision aids, the International Patient Decision Aid Standards and the Information Standard.

It builds on Professor Bekker’s partnership work with NHS-Rightcare to deliver 35 open-access, web-based patient decision aids and NHS-Advancing Quality Alliance shared decision making training to staff, and long-term collaboration with Professor Barbara Summers and colleagues from the Leeds Centre for Decision Research.