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ArticleHealth research policy and systems2024

The co-production process of an assessment programme: Between clarifying identity and developing the quality of French-speaking Belgian community health centres.

Madeleine Capiau, Jean Macq, Sophie Thunus

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Madeleine CapiauInstitute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Clos Chapelle-aux-Champs, 30, 1200, Brussels, Belgium. madeleine.capiau@uclouvain.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-2393-6299
Jean MacqInstitute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Clos Chapelle-aux-Champs, 30, 1200, Brussels, Belgium.
Sophie ThunusInstitute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Clos Chapelle-aux-Champs, 30, 1200, Brussels, Belgium.

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backgroundThe assessment of primary care organizations is considered to be essential for improving care. However, the assessments' acceptability to professionals poses a challenge. Developing assessment programmes in collaboration with the end-users is a strategy that is widely encouraged to make interventions better targeted. By doing so, it can help to prevent resistance and encourage adherence to the assessment. This process, however, is rarely reported. This paper aims to fill this gap by describing the process of the co-production of an assessment programme for community health centres (CHCs) affiliated to the Federation of Community Health Centres (FCHC) in French-speaking Belgium.

methodsWe conducted a documentary study on the co-production of the assessment programme before carrying out semi-structured interviews with the stakeholders involved in its development.

resultsCHCs in French-speaking Belgium are increasing in number and are becoming more diverse. For the FCHC, this growth and diversification pose challenges for the meaning of CHC (an identity challenge) and what beneficiaries can expect in terms of the quality of organizations declaring themselves CHC (a quality challenge). Faced with this double challenge, the FCHC decided to develop an assessment programme, initially called Label, using participatory action research. During the co-production process, this initial programme version was abandoned in favour of a new name "DEQuaP". This new name embodies new objectives and new design regarding the assessment programme. When studying the co-production process, we attributed these changes to two controversies. The first concerns how much and which type of variety is desired among CHCs part of the FCHC. The second concerns the organization of the FCHC in its capacity as a federation. It shed light on tensions between two professional segments that, in this paper, we called "political professionalism" and "pragmatic professionalism".

conclusionsThese controversies show the importance of underlying challenges behind the development of an assessment programme for CHCs. This provided information about the evolution of the identity of multidisciplinary organizations in primary care. Issues raised in the development of this assessment programme also show the importance of considering assessment methods that reflect and embody the current realities of these organizations and the way of developing these assessment methods.

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Community Health CentersBelgiumHumansProgram EvaluationAssessment programmeCommunity health centresCo-production processFrench-speaking BelgiumMultidisciplinary teamsPrimary care

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