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ArticleSociology of health & illness2022

Turning the gaze: Digital patient feedback and the silent pathology of the NHS.

Catherine M Montgomery, John Powell, Kamal Mahtani, Anne-Marie Boylan

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Article in Sociology of health & illness, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Catherine M MontgomeryScience, Technology and Innovation Studies, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5829-6137
John PowellNuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Kamal MahtaniNuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Anne-Marie BoylanNuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
University of Oxford · GBUniversity of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

Department of HealthWellcome Trust 209519Wellcome Trust 209519/Z/17/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Online review and rating sites, where patients can leave feedback on their experience of the health-care encounter, are becoming an increasing feature of primary care in the NHS. Previous research has analysed how digital surveillance is re-shaping the clinical gaze, as health-care professionals are subject to increased public monitoring. Here, we draw on an empirical study of 41 GP practice staff to show how the gaze is turning, not simply from the patient to the health-care provider, but additionally to the body politic of the NHS. Drawing on focus group and interview data conducted in five UK practices, we show how discourses of online reviews and ratings are producing new professional subjectivities among health-care professionals and the extent to which the gaze extends not only to individual health-care interactions but to the health-care service writ large. We identify three counter-discourses characterising the evolving ways in which online reviews and ratings are creating new subjects in primary care practices: victimhood, prosumption versus traditional values and taking control. We show how the ways in which staff speak about online feedback are patterned by the social environment in which they work and the constraints of the NHS they encounter on a day-to-day basis.

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Delivery of Health CareState MedicineFeedbackFocus GroupsHealth PersonnelHumansdigital healthFoucaultpatient experienceprimary care

Identifiers

PMID34862794
PMCPMC7616249
OpenAlexW3215810265

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