Newcastle University

Risk Communication and Decision Making

The Risk Communication and Decision Making Research Programme is led by Professor Richard Thomson.

Involving patients in decision making about their health and health care is increasingly understood to improve health care, treatment compliance and health outcomes and reflects the move from paternalistic to shared decisions in clinical settings. Our programme includes innovative work in developing and evaluating shared decision making and risk communication initially in stroke prevention and atrial fibrillation, but now extending more widely (e.g. pain relief and labour, caesarean section, falls prevention in older people, vaccination). Work is developing on the population and public health implications of shared decision making.

This programme includes local collaboration in particular with clinical colleagues in the School of Clinical Medical Sciences and in obstetrics and fetal medicine. It includes international collaboration as a member of the Steering Group for the International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration.

Current Projects

Current Collaborators

 

Staff List

Risk Communication

Dr Catherine Exley Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology	Email: catherine.exley@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 3805
Dr Tracy Finch Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Health Care	Email: tracy.finch@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7257
Dr Darren Flynn Senior Research Associate	Email: darren.flynn@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 5415
Joanne Lally Shared Decision Making Programme Lead	Email: joanne.lally@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 2820933
Jan Lecouturier Research Facilitator	Email: jan.lecouturier@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 562 9
Dr Mabel Lie Research Associate	Email: mabel.lie@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7510
Joan MacKintosh Research Associate	Email: joan.mackintosh@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 8661
Dr Tim Rapley Lecturer	Email: tim.rapley@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 5665
Lynne Stobbart Department of Health Research Capacity Development Research Fellow	Email: lynne.stobbart@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 5513
Professor Richard Thomson Professor of Epidemiology & Public Hlth	Email: richard.thomson@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 8760