Research ppj

In order to focus on a specific human experience
within my future world, I tried
to lay out ome of my assumptions of the
context which need to exist in order
to enable this experience to take place.
These insights were based on conversations
with experts and future exhibit we
had designed in part one.
A) One of the things that became clear
in conversations with the experts was
that is is usually a specific type of person
who take part in clinical trials. This
is party because trials present a lot of
risk - there are many variables and it
is difficult for a patient to understand
the terms of a trial unless they have a
high enough level of medical literacy to
read the papers. This means that a lot of
the patients who end up not trials are
those who are able and willing to do a
lot of research, which often end up being
those with ore social mobility and higher
socioeconomic status. In order for the
accessibility and diversity of clinical trials
to improve, clinical research needs to be
integrated into routine practice, which it
currently rarely is.
B) Thought this project I chose to focus
on the lifestyle and environmental factors
which might enable precision medicine
to take place in the future; but the
biggest breakthroughs in precision medicine
so far have been those concerning
genomic medicine, especially advances
in genomic sequencing. Though genomic
sequencing is moving evermore into
mainstream medicine and cancer care,
it will likely play a far larger role in the
future.
C) One of the defining features of precision
medicine stems from the idea
that each patient should be treated as
an individual. This is a notion being discussed
more and more frequently in the
NHS, especially in Scotland where government
has set targets for the delivery
of patient-centred care. NHS Scotland is
currently trialling a patient portal which
allows patients to access their own medical
history. In the future, patient’s will be
given more responsibility to understand
and manage their own healthcare, helping
to break down the paternalistic idea
of healthcare which we have currently.
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