Consultation and Deliberative Events

‘Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.’ Napoleon Bonaparte

‘Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers’ Nikita Krushchev

More than ever, successful delivery depends on understanding how people see the world and how it impacts on them. Successful consultation demands independence, integrity and the ability to create the conditions for open, honest debate. 

Our approach includes:

• Designing consultation processes and methodologies
• Organising and conducting public meetings
• Design and analysis of hard and virtual surveys and consultations
• Interviews and discussion groups
• Secondary source and media monitoring and analysis

Project experience includes:

• Major report of stakeholder interviews and literature review of patient and professional attitudes towards sharing patient health and care information, to inform public engagement programme for OneLondon Local Health and Care Record Exemplar
• Stakeholder consultation for a University Centre for Hastings, University of Brighton
• Patient and community consultation for reshaping of health services in Eastern Kent, NHS East Kent
• Patient and community consultation for changes to hospital services in South East London, Office of the Special Administrator
• Enquiries into Youth Unemployment and European Social Fund, specialist advisor, House of Lords EU Committee
• Consultation and benchmarking of  senior stakeholder perspectives for Designing Out Crime programme, The Design Council / Home Office
• Consultation with strategic stakeholders in education, health and arts for development of forward plan, University of Brighton