The sharing of information, experiences and concerns between patients and decision makers was more than educational; it was also informative for healthcare recommendations. The themes were identified from the most commonly used codes across all of the articles/items and review worksheets. These were captured under seven content themes based on the analysis of selected published and grey literature - ‘ definition of patient engagement’, ‘stakeholder roles and expectations’, meaningful and appropriate engagement’, ‘models of engagement’, ‘benefits and barriers to patient engagement’, ‘evaluation of patient engagement’, and ‘engagement resourcing’. Patient engagement was generally considered beneficial to the health care system in its policy and planning activities, but barriers were also identified. This scoping review on patient engagement, including the identification of key themes and resources relevant to making patient engagement successful, offered a wealth of information that would not only assist in the development of a resource kit for patient engagement but also provide other significant suggestions and recommendations to be considered in the patient engagement process.

An essential read for all who are involved in this field and passionate about seeing God’s kingdom come in families, churches and communities. Culyer A: Involving stakeholders in healthcare decisions - the experience of the national institute for health and clinical excellence (NICE) in England and Wales. As follow up to this scoping review and the identification of themes and content (tools, education and infrastructure) items, is the actual development and pilot of the Resource Kit including evaluating the strengths/effectiveness as well as weaknesses of each theme and the content items within each theme. The focus is on helping readers to unpack the stories around Jesus with helpful questions for personal and group reflection.

This review included both published and grey literature, and analyzed both in the context of their contributions towards patient engagement in the broadest sense, considering tools, guides, barriers or benefits, and other attributes. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, 2815 Eastlake Ave E Ste 200, Seattle, WA, 98102, USA. Canada was selected because it was the country where this study took place, and also because patient engagement was a relatively new approach in Canadian healthcare systems at the time, but had some examples worth noting. Creating awareness, clarifying terminology, providing training and tools and guides to understand and become knowledgeable about patient engagement while implementing it, were considered keys to its success.

There is a good theological foundation laid, and then an overview chapter highlighting the variety of family ministry found in Britain today. Cayton [ 52] suggested that there was “limited evidence to support the argument that patient involvement improves outcomes” and references Coulter and others who have argued that “patient experience, that is, what happened to them, rather than how satisfied they say they are, is a better measure of success” (p. Cambridgeshire Community Services, National Health Service Trust: A Staff Guide to Involving Service Users, their Carers and the Public in Cambrideshire Community Services NHS Trust. The author then goes on to talk about the theology behind family ministry and what it should look like in our churches today.Another challenge presented with the integration of the published and grey literature rather than keeping these two sets of literature separate for categorizing and clustering of categories into themes. In the first part of the book Gail Adcock examines the changing nature of family life within the UK and stresses the urgency in understanding this and in creating new frameworks in response to it. Gail Adcock is Family Ministry Development Officer for the British Methodist church and it’s good to see a British Methodist colleague leading the way in family ministry.