We have a range of resources to support patients to communicate with their osteopath about their individual preferences, beliefs and values. These resources have been designed to support osteopaths and patients to make decisions about care together.

The resources were co-produced with patients and healthcare practitioners, including osteopaths, as part of a collaborative research programme with the General Dental Council and the Collaborating Centre for Values Based Practice in St Catherine’s College, Oxford.

You can read more about the research programme during which the resources were produced in an article entitled Connecting patients, practitioners, and regulators in supporting positive experiences and processes of shared decision making (2019) which was published in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.