My Health, My choice
Take charge of the UK's healthcare budget
A new online game gives the public, the ‘virtual power’ to determine how they would design the UK's health system and how much they would choose to spend on healthcare in comparison to the Government’s current spending commitments. A recent public survey by Astellas Pharma Europe shows that only 24% of people think the British Government currently spends enough on healthcare. However, with the survey also demonstrating clear misconceptions among the public on how much healthcare costs, the ‘My Health, My Choice’ game is to help the public better understand the complex relationships between healthcare services and costs. The game allows the user to design their healthcare system based on a number of set criteria: the number of hospital beds, nurses, GPs and specialists in the UK. If the player chooses to amend any of the figures from the current baseline, they will be shown the impact on not only the healthcare budget, but patient waiting times for specialist appointments too.