About Us
At A Life in a Day we are patient obsessed. We believe that by understanding and recognising the physical, social and emotional needs of patients, pharmaceutical and healthcare professionals can put these at the centre of clinical, corporate and commercial strategies. This will allow you to achieve greater patient-centric working and more meaningful engagement with your peers, clients, and patients themselves.
Our immersive experiences allow you to step into a patient’s shoes, providing valuable insight into the daily challenges and choices patients face.
Our Story
A Life in a Day was created in 2018 out of a belief that the best healthcare is when patients are put at its heart. Understanding what life is like for people with chronic conditions is vital so they can receive care and support tailored to their needs.
A Life in a Day uses theatre techniques to elicit empathy from participants and its experiences are developed hand-in-hand with patients and healthcare professionals for accuracy. They are designed to be completed during a typical working day to reflect the reality of living with a chronic health condition and the choices people make during the day-long simulation determines what happens next, just like in real life.
Our background
A Life in a Day is the brainchild of The Method, a British learning and development company founded by Mark Doyle and John Keates. With a background in the arts as an actor and writer respectively, the two men harnessed their ability to create emotional connections with audiences, giving rise to professional development experiences unlike any other. A Life in a Day – its award-winning, flagship programme – upends traditional learning methods in favour of using actors, multimedia materials, physical items and artificial intelligence delivered via a smartphone app.
Our journey
We knew A Life in a Day was a good idea , but had no inkling of the extraordinary journey we were about to begin. What started as a project designed for 20 users, has wowed audiences in over 55 countries. We are continuously developing new programmes across multiple therapy areas with a focus on highlighting the physical, social and emotional challenges faced by patients living with chronic illness. At the end of 2020 we were were delighted to win Gold for Best Use of Mobile Learning at the Learning Technology Awards and Silver for Best Use of Simulation or Virtual Environment for Learning.
And we’re just getting started.
Who supports us
We have worked with some amazing patient support organisations in the development of our programmes and are delighted to have received their endorsement.
“A Life in a Day is an incredibly powerful way to bridge the gap between people working in pharma & healthcare and the day to day reality of patients.
We often hear about organisations and healthcare professionals who want to be more patient-centred in their approach – this is real world patient centricity in action.“
Rose Woodward – Co-founder, Advocate, Patient
“It is so important that people working in every aspect of healthcare fully understand what it’s like to live with a condition that is life limiting and has a detrimental impact on the patient quality of life. A Life in a Day offers deep insight into the realities patients face every day of their life. This product will focus teams on the real challenges patients face.”
Nick Hartstone-Evans, Chief Executive (Founder), Pumping Marvellous Foundation
Supporting our environment
At A Life in a Day, we care about the environment and want to ensure our carbon footprint is reduced where possible. The items included in our packs are designed to be environmentally conscious, recyclable and reusable when possible. With this in mind, we encourage participants to recycle, reuse or dispose of the items in any packs in a manner that is friendly to our planet.
In addition, we have committed to ensuring the delivery of our packs are carbon positive. For each parcel shipped, the carbon is offset by supporting the plantation of seagrass around the world.
Seagrass is vital for not only marine life, clean oceans, and the health and wellbeing of millions of lives. But it *can capture carbon up to 35 times faster than tropical rainforests and, even though it covers less than 1% of the seafloor, it globally accounts for 10-18% of total ocean carbon storage.
*Source: WWF – https://www.wwf.org.uk/success-stories/seagrass-restoration-project
Nick Lester
Zara Nadim
Barbara Fusco
Alfie White
Josh Hamilton
Chiara Keating
Beverley Bryant
Rebecca Parry
Paul Gascoigne
Kelly Bibb
Katya Emanuel
Bianca Claydon
Mostafa Naseef
Cora Graham
Kate Jackson
Mark Doyle
Mark Duman MRPharmS brings over 30 years of clinician, management consultant and patient perspectives to the healthcare, life sciences and digital health sectors. Working in the NHS, The King’s Fund, the BBC, and as a Founder of the Patient Information Forum, Mark endeavours to make healthcare more person-centric. As the Chief Patient Officer for MD Healthcare, he works with organisations such as AstraZeneca, Diabetes UK, Google Health, Innovate UK, JnJ, Macmillan Cancer Support, Microsoft, Pfizer, Novartis and Siemens Healthineers to harness digital health, develop markets and improve patient engagement.
