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NHS patient and public engagement faces an uncertain future because nobody wants to pay for democracy
Cutbacks are a new fiscal necessity. Regrettably, If the question is where to focus the cuts, the obvious answer is ‘non-patient care’. That’s basically the message to hundreds of consultation and engagement professionals in the NHS who face uncertainty after the...
Exposing AI summarisation
We know that using AI can cause hallucinations but it’s less clear how these manifest and what the pitfalls might be. In most cases, hallucinations occur in large language models. They typically introduce facts learned from their training data, which is vastly...
Public meetings with extra voice
Getting the most out of a public meeting takes effort. It requires facilitators to take accurate notes and summarise the mini-debates and mechanisms to prevent the loudest voices from dominating the dialogue. Some time ago MySocitety launched a little known project...
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