Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The patient is part of the surgical team here, perhaps the most important part, and above all, that's what makes neurosurgery different.
Our interaction as patients with the NHS should be on the basis that there's a presumption that all information is shared with us.
I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients play a more active role ... in fixing health care.
I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient.
I hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease
Patients have the right to help themselves.
Please, let patients help improve healthcare. Let patients help steer our decisions, strategic and practical. Let patients help define what value in medicine is.
