Service Design Empowering Innovative Communities Within Healthcare

Stuart G. Bailey (), Karen L. Bell () and Hans Hartung ()
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Stuart G. Bailey: The Glasgow School of Art
Karen L. Bell: NHS Ayrshire & Arran, University Hospital Crosshouse
Hans Hartung: NHS Ayrshire & Arran, University Hospital Crosshouse

A chapter in Service Design and Service Thinking in Healthcare and Hospital Management, 2019, pp 137-153 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Service design provides the means to make sense of the complex interactions and processes experienced when delivering and receiving patient care. The tools of service design generate visual narratives that communicate experiences of and interactions between medical staff, hospital patients and carers, as well as mapping processes and systems and identifying the nature of relationships between the various stakeholders involved. Often service design tools are used to communicate what was observed and what might be done, but when used as analytical and diagnostic tools, they deliver a powerful means of sharing thinking and decision-making across a wider community beyond the designers themselves. The authors discuss the application of human-centric service design, not only as the means to design innovative service outcomes but to analyse and diagnose the complex processes involved in delivering patient care. The utilisation of this multifaceted design process resulted in richer service prognosis and propositions in concordance with the needs of patients, carers, hospital staff and clinicians than often provided by the more routine qualitative or quantitative analysis of service delivery. Using case studies of projects undertaken at University Hospital Crosshouse to illustrate our findings, this chapter explores the issues encountered during the application of service design and service thinking by clinical and non-clinical professionals, including the lessons learned in developing sustainable innovation practices that reduced reliance on the presence of designers. We highlight the dynamics of this approach, looking through the lens of person-centred service design and open innovation, how staff and service users engaged in exploring new insights and approaches.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00749-2_9

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