Better Healthcare Together: Co‐Designing a Framework for Health Service Co‐Design
Adrienne M. Young, Anja Christoffersen, Dale Trevor, Suzanne Stringer, Tim Cudmore, Leonie Sanderson, Gillian Nasato, Lisa Anemaat, Katrina L. Campbell · 2026
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Young and colleagues build a framework for designing health services with patients rather than for them. They build it with a health consumer as co-lead. Co-design toolkits address professionals, which keeps power with staff and limits community leadership. Their 2026 project, run in a Queensland health service, gathers consumers, clinicians, and researchers. It spans eight forums, focus groups, and workshops in five hospitals. Results join published evidence.
One hundred twenty eight people contributed. The Better Healthcare Together framework has three parts: what to settle before starting, how to build the team, and how the process should run. Power, inclusion, and equity are treated as design inputs, not slogans. The authors are candid that a framework alone cannot create co-design skill across a system: budgets, hierarchies, and habits have to move. As an example of its own method, the project proves shared leadership changes what gets designed.
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| CREATOR | Adrienne M. Young, Anja Christoffersen, Dale Trevor, Suzanne Stringer, Tim Cudmore, Leonie Sanderson, Gillian Nasato, Lisa Anemaat, Katrina L. Campbell |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |