Patient Relations

Mapping the patient movement

The eight indicators for mapping the patient movement

Despite their obvious importance, no real mechanism exists to measure the patient movement’s impact upon healthcare—besides the rather arbitrary measure of the numbers of patient groups, or patient groups’ own accounts of their successes. In 2012, PatientView set about filling such a void in measurement, by developing a mapping tool to assess the potency and impact of patient groups in their fields of activity. This analysis, in 2024, represents the 4th time the benchmarking study has been undertaken. Previous studies were completed in 2012, 2014 and 2018.