What if things go wrong in co-producing health services? Exploring the implementation problems of health care co-production

But What if Things go Wrong?

Building large-scale distributed systems these days is facilitated by a number of distribution frameworks. However, in practice, we see that failure handling is often treated poorly in these frameworks. An exception is transactions, which are a well-known approach for handling failure, and we see that, indeed, these distribution frameworks provide for transaction management. Transactions themse...

What is psychiatry? Co-producing complexity in mental health

What is psychiatry? Such a question is increasingly important to engage with in light of the development of new diagnostic frameworks that have wide-ranging and international clinical and societal implications. I suggest in this reflective essay that 'psychiatry' is not a singular entity that enjoins consistent forms of critique along familiar axes; rather, it is a heterogeneous assemblage of i...

The co-production of what? Knowledge, values, and social relations in health care

"Co-production" is becoming an increasingly popular term in policymaking, governance, and research. While the shift from engagement and involvement to co-production in health care holds the promise of revolutionising health services and research, it is not always evident what counts as co-production: what is being produced, under what circumstances, and with what implications for participants. ...

Health care reform: what went wrong?

Co-payments for health care: what is their real cost?

Based on the premise that current trends in healthcare spending are unsustainable, the Australian Government has proposed in the recent Budget the introduction of a compulsory $7 co-payment to visit a General Practitioner (GP), alongside increased medication copayments. This paper is based on a recent submission to the Senate Inquiry into the impact of out-of-pocket costs in Australia. It is ba...