As a participation professional who’s been lurking around NHS Citizen as it develops, one of the most exciting aspects has been the webcasting.  Even the debriefing team meeting at the end of the NHS Citizen Design Workshop in January this year (2015) was webcast.  This is a level of openness and commitment to transparent reflection that goes way beyond anything I’ve been involved with before.  I fell in love with NHS Citizen as I watched that. 

On the other hand, when I was sitting down to design the detail of the particular event I was brought in to facilitate - the Citizens’ Jury test in Hatfield on 3rd and 4th March 2015 - I had some reservations.