What is the value of Quality of Life? Cost, Care, Choices

Monday 27th March, 6-9pm

Jesus College, Cheng Yu Tung Building, Turn St, Oxford OX1 3DW

“What if your quality of life wasn’t something they could measure — but that didn’t stop you from living it?”
Healthcare systems worldwide face difficult ethical decisions in a financially constrained environment. How are those decisions made, can personal narratives affect the decision-making process, and if they can, would this be ethical?
Intertwining Jamie Hale’s award-winning play, ‘Quality of Life is Not a Measurable Outcome’ with live audience polling, this project aims to explore the tension between personal and impersonal perspectives and directly interrogate how an individual narrative shifts the framework for reflection and discussion.

"Quality of Life is Not a Measurable Outcome is a multi-media play exploring what it means to live in the world as a profoundly disabled person. After surviving critical illness and rebuilding their life, Jamie is now faced with the loss of the care package that keeps them alive and independent. Fusing poetry, monologue, film, and theatre in spoken English and British Sign Language, the oppressive panopticons of medical and panel-based social care assessments come into stark conflict with Jamie’s bold, transgressive desire to live joyfully in the world."