Box 4.

Example of collaborative action planning^a

Time, minutes:seconds	Line	Speaker	Excerpt
06:09	1	GP025:	No, oh well we’ve got a few nice things to work on here (0.2). Sounds like meeting people of a similar age is the one thing that’s really [in your]
	2	GP025:
	3	Pt205:	[I do]
	4	GP025:	[Big goal]

06:20	5	Pt205:	[That is something] I want to do.
06:20	19 lines omitted	Pt205:	[That is something] I want to do.

07:07	25	GP025:	No, well let’s move on to so I think that we’ve let’s write those down because I think they’re excellent, I think you’ve come up with some really good ones there (0.6). So um the first one is meet people (2.9) (GP025 writes on sheet)
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	32	Pt205:	I do go to the one at the church erm (2.0) bereavement thing, I go there
	33	GP025:	[Ah]

07:35	34	Pt205:	[So I meet people there]
07:35	75 lines omitted	Pt205:	[So I meet people there]

10:31	110	GP025:	Yeah (0.3), yeah, so we’re looking for groups where you’ll meet other [females by the sounds of it]
	111	GP025:
	112	Pt205:	[An’ that’s right that’s it]
	113	GP025:	By
	114	Pt205:	[Just]
	115	GP025:	[Yeah]
	116	Pt205:	er, go out, have a cup of tea, have a walk an’ [other things]
	117	GP025:	[Yeah] yeah,
	118		have you been to the um (0.2) (church) group of (0.4) which is um (0.2) in (town). I got their leaflet somewhere? (0.9) Let me have a look (0.7) here we are.
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↵a [Number] indicates a pause measured in seconds inside brackets. [ ] marks start and end of overlapping talk. Underlining locates emphasis. Equal sign indicates no gap between two lines of talk. Pt = patient.