Playing with PANDA: The CybOrg and the Rhizome

Taket, Ann; White, Leroy

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“…A prominent early example is Ritchie et al's (1994) collection of 26 studies in community works, a substantial part of which deals with such topics as health needs assessment (Pepper, 1994), health strategy planning (Friend, 1994), maternal healthcare (Moullin, 1994) and also with vital cross-cutting health and social care themes such as community care (Vahl, 1994) and evaluation (Taket, 1994; later further developed by Boyd et al, 2001Boyd et al, , 2007. Since this key publication, others have addressed topics including healthcare quality improvement (Gregory et al, 1994;Walsh & Hostick, 2004), diversion from custody for mentally disordered offenders (Cohen & Midgley, 1994), mental health and employment (Midgley & Milne, 1995), family health (Taket & White, 2004), sustainability and health (Waltner-Toews et al, 2004), community health schemes in developing countries (Smith et al, 2009) and critical decisions in the care of older people (Sommer & Mabin, 2015). To this may be added substantial theory developments, such as those of Frerichs et al (2016) and Midgley (2006).…”

Section: Community Operational Research and Healthcarementioning

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Towards a new paradigm of healthcare: Addressing challenges to professional identities through Community Operational Research

Walsh

Kittler

Mahal

2018

European Journal of Operational Research

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Healthcare worldwide faces severe quality and cost issues, and the search for sustainability in healthcare establishes a grand challenge. Public interest is growing in a systemic re-conceptualizing of healthcare, from primarily a consumerist problem of individual need for treatment to a need for communities themselves to become more effective in systemic prevention, coping and caring. In community led approaches, scarce resources are moved away from ever-increasing consumerist services to empower, develop and enable communities to plan their own health and community improvements in mutually interdependent patterns of care often seen as 'co-production'. This approach is exemplified by the innovative NUKA system of community led healthcare which originated in Alaska and which was trialled in Scotland in 2012, where it did not achieve similar acclaim as in the United States. The Scottish NUKA trial was due to run for six months and initially appeared to be working well, but opposition from professionals meant the trial was ended early. Our research found that omitting to account for the strong professional identity of GPs and other practice staff was instrumental in the failure of the trial. Beyond deficiencies inadequately considering professional identities, the trial also failed to engage the community and its patients as owners and architects of the system. We argue that the root cause of these problems, was a more general critical systemic failure to manage participatory boundaries and associated identities. Community Operational Research practitioners have developed relevant theories, methodologies and methods to address issues of participation and identity, so could make a significant contribution to opening up new solutions for community led healthcare.

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Section: Community Operational Research and Healthcarementioning

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Towards a new paradigm of healthcare: Addressing challenges to professional identities through Community Operational Research

Walsh

Kittler

Mahal

2018

European Journal of Operational Research

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“…Thus, PANDA can be viewed as an ever-changing rhizomatic framework, ever seeking to widen the scope of work it draws inspiration from and the methods it uses. For example, Taket [37] expanded further on questions of facilitation, while Taket and White [38] described extending the work of others [39,40] on the use of metaphors for understanding the multi-organisational setting, working with the metaphors of the CybOrg and the rhizome. The case study below carried this process further forward.…”

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PANDA (Participatory Appraisal of Needs and Development of Action)

Taket,

White

2023

Journal of Systems Thinking

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PANDA (participatory appraisal of needs and development of action) is a multimethodological framework that was developed during the 1990s for use in planning and implementing group decision-making in multi-agency settings. The authors developed PANDA in the process of critically reflecting on their own practice and that of others. Much of the author's practice (both individually and together) has been in the field of community or third sector operational research. The term PANDA first appeared in print and was fully described in 2000. PANDA is based on a theoretical stance that is labelled post-structuralist or postmodernist. It represents one particular type of multimethodology, based in a stance of pragmatic pluralism. This chapter covers the development of PANDA, linking it to earlier work, both inside and outside the systems field. It then moves on to consider an example of PANDA in practice, and finishes by highlighting some challenges and directions for the future.

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Playing with PANDA: The CybOrg and the Rhizome

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Towards a new paradigm of healthcare: Addressing challenges to professional identities through Community Operational Research

Towards a new paradigm of healthcare: Addressing challenges to professional identities through Community Operational Research

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