Box 5.

Example of collaborative action planning^a

Time, minutes:seconds	Line	Speaker	Excerpt
13:01	1	GP026	So it’s about eating er so what I need to do is put, so we need to write down here our goal=
	2	GP026
	3	Pt206	=Right
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13:19	8	GP026	So — (0.5) goal (0.2) to gain weight.
	9	Pt206	Please, yes.
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	11	GP026	Okay (.) Now — (0.5) we need to make that goal (0.9) in a way that we can think about whether we’ve achieved anything in 6 months’ time.
	12	GP026
	13	Pt206	Right=
	14	GP026	=Erm, and so we want to put some numbers on it to make it specific. You’re 33 kilos now (0.7)
	15	GP026
	16	Pt206	Yeah
	17	GP026	It would be very ambitious I think in 6 months to put [10 per cent weight]
	18	Pt026	[yeah]
	19	GP026	on which would be another 3 kilos, half a stone that would be very [ambitious]
	20	GP026
	21	Pt206	[Won’t] yeah but it would be lovely wouldn’t it
	22	GP026	It would now we can be ambitious (0.2) but we want to try and achieve it=
	23	Pt206	=Yeah I think to be that ambitious (1.5) I would probably do something silly and make myself violently sick.
	24	Pt206
	25	GP026	So we don’t [want to do that]
	26	Pt206	[So we don’t want] that, no
	27	GP026	So I think we ought to try and tailor, tailor it down a bit=

14:12	28	Pt206	=Yes certainly

↵a [Number] indicates a pause measured in seconds inside brackets. (.) indicates a pause of less than 0.2 tenths of a second. [ ] marks start and end of overlapping talk. Underlining locates emphasis. Equal sign indicates no gap between two lines of talk. Pt = patient.