Keeling, Debbie Isobel (2021) Consucrats have agency: what next for the profecrat? International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 10 (8). pp. 507-510. ISSN 2322-5939
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Abstract
The trend in ensuring adequate consumer representation across diverse activities and sectors, not least in healthcare, has been speedily implemented, sometimes at the expense of strategy. This commentary explores the concept of the consucrat as a consumer representative, presented by de Leeuw, which raised important questions regarding the way in which individuals and health services interact and collaborate. Adopting a complex services marketing lens, the position of the consucrat is discussed in relation to agency underpinning three tensions identified by de Leeuw: designation; professionalization, and; representation. For equality, professional service providers are referred to as ‘profecrats.’ Supporting de Leeuw, challenges are made to the underlying assumptions implicit in terms used around representation, the perspective that it is the consucrat only who needs to adapt, and the discourse around the competence of the consucrat. We should not be too cautious in our approach to consumer representation. Consucrats have agency – what next for the profecrat?
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Healthcare, Consumer Representation, Communities, Agency, Complex Services Marketing |
Schools and Departments: | University of Sussex Business School > Strategy and Marketing |
SWORD Depositor: | Mx Elements Account |
Depositing User: | Mx Elements Account |
Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2021 07:13 |
Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2022 12:15 |
URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/98404 |
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