An update on timeline for the launch of the Spectrum 10K consultation

Today the Co-Leads of the Spectrum 10K Consultation Hopkins Van Mil (HVM), Leneh Buckle and Spectrum 10K publish the Phase 2 Consultation report. You can access the report from this news item.

We’re thrilled to bits to announce HVM are the winners of the MRS 2022 Award for Public Policy and Social Research. We give our thanks to our collaborators here.

On 31st October, Hopkins Van Mil (HVM), independent facilitators, concluded Phase 2 of the Spectrum 10K consultation. The purpose of Phase 2 was to co-design the Phase 3 consultation with autistic people. Phase 2 involved discussions and activities in workshops, in a dedicated online space, in one-to-one interviews and in meetings.

The NHS recently published its new statutory guidance for integrated care boards, NHS trusts and foundation trusts and policy for NHS England. The guidance puts working with people and communities at the heart NHS England’s work. It particularly focuses on supporting organisations to build collaborative and meaningful partnerships that start with people and focus on what really matters to our communities.

Recently the NHS announced that seriously ill babies in England could be diagnosed and start treatment for rare conditions more quickly thanks to the roll-out of a new genetic testing service. Whilst before it might take weeks for a patient to receive a new diagnosis, the new service uses a technique called whole genome sequencing (WGS) to return results faster, potentially in as little as two days.

This news led us at Hopkins Van Mil to look back on the public dialogue we ran in 2021 to explore the implications of WGS for newborn screening.

Following the first hearing of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, which was held in London last week, we look forward to the publication of a new report on the second public dialogue we ran with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator.

A recent poll carried out by three of the UK's largest environmental NGOs, the National Trust, the RSPB, and the WWF, found that 81% of UK adults believe that nature is under threat and requires urgent action to protect and restore it (WWF, September 2022). This comes at a time when recent government announcements have come under scrutiny for appearing to reverse important environmental commitments. This has led HVM to look back at the public dialogue we ran with Resources for Change in 2021 commissioned by WWF with the purpose of creating a national conversation on land use.

Hopkins Van Mil would like to hear from community groups and their members who would like to take part in a public conversation about environmental issues.

HVM is delighted to announce that we are finalists in the Market Research Society (MRS) Awards for Public Policy/ Social Research 2022.

We reflect here on the findings of the 2020-21 National Food Strategy public dialogue, given recent government announcements on obesity and government interventions in the food system.

Over the coming months, Hopkins Van Mil will be working with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to bring together people from across the UK, environmental science researchers and the wider environmental science community in a combination of online and in-person workshops.

The HVM team is very pleased that Leneh Buckle has joined us as the freelance Co-Lead on the Spectrum 10K Consultation. In this post Leneh introduces herself and gives information on the rationale for taking up the role.

An update on the Spectrum 10K consultation and Hopkins Van Mil’s role in that work.

The UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator commissioned HVM in June 2021 to design and deliver a rapid online public dialogue on the ethics of Covid-19.

Discover the report findings for the first public dialogue explicitly focused on people’s ethical considerations in relation to Covid-19, Covid recovery and future pandemics here…