Shared decision making

The transparent and intuitive explanations of assessments, diagnoses, and intervention decisions provided by GRiST make it suitable for supporting shared decision making where service users are fully involved. We have recently won a grant from the Judi Meadows Memorial Fund to develop a service-user version, myGRiST, that links with GRiST versions in primary care and secondary care so that information can be easily accessed across the care pathway.

To date, development of myGRiST has involved a series of 5 focus groups with 20 different service users drawn from 2 different mental health service-user groups in the UK. Focus groups have also been held with both clinicians and service users in Boston, America, and Buckingham gave an invited seminar on GRiST at Boston Medical School. A workshop on the myGRiST concept was attended by 50 participants at the British Festival of Science at Aston University in Birmingham, 2010, and myGRiST and GRiST for IAPT will soon be delivered through the IAPTus patient record system developed by Mayden House, when they will become available to about 150 Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services.