Appendices

2. Meeting structure and participant background summaries

The number of people attending the Marwell Open Steps meeting was deliberately kept small, as the intention was that the meeting should provide a think-tank atmosphere, and should be small enough that attendees would not feel intimidated about speaking, while at the same time having enough people present to promote meaningful discussion and a diversity of opinion.

The meeting was organised as a residential think-tank and was held over two days (midday to midday) in February 2004. The meeting involved both small group and plenary discussion sessions, supported by the use of digital voting on issues to determine consensus views at points throughout the meeting. The digital voting used the Interactive Presenter system.

As part of the process of getting participants familiar with the Interactive Presenter digital voting system, demographic data were captured and a number of scene-setting questions posed. These provide a snapshot of participants' views at the start of the meeting, and the data are summarised in the following subsections.

Demographics

28 people attended.

UK: 20
Netherlands: 4
Czech Republic: 2
Canada: 1
USA: 1

Work in the NHS: 31%

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