Great North Children’s Hospital (Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust) has been working with Newcastle University researchers to explore creative approaches to patient information. As a legacy of that work, the team has produced a quick-start guide and materials to help staff plan their own collaborations with artists including comics creators and illustrators to produce patient information materials for use as part of clinical encounters. Resources from earlier phases of this project (including the My MRI! comic) are publicly available here.
The new resources are:
- Creative approaches to patient information: a quick-start guide (6-page PDF creative approaches to patient information a quick start guide)
- Example of a project lifecycle
- detailed version (PDF Project Life Cycle print version or Powerpoint Project Life Cycle presentation version Ppt)
- simplified version for use as a presentation (PDF Project Life Cycle presentation version or Powerpoint Project Life Cycle print version Ppt)
- Project planning template (PDF version project planning template PDF or Wordproject planning template Word)
Or, click below to read all resources in one PDF:
Click to access All-Resources-1.pdf
Project team:
- Lydia Wysocki – Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University; Applied Comics Etc
- Janice McLaughlin – Sociology, Newcastle University
- Heather Wilson – Comic Developer, HeatherWilson Illustrations
- We also thank Michael McKean and Julie Anderson (NuTH NHS Trust) and Mel Whewell (Newcastle University’s Institute for Creative Arts Practice) for their advice.
For this phase of the project we gratefully acknowledge funding from Great North Children’s Hospital Foundation.
See also:
- My MRI! comic
- Blog post on Cost of Living blog: ‘The stop-start of collaboration in clinical settings’
