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Putting health tech into practice
What is required for tech implementation in the NHS to be successful, and how should this shape our post-pandemic priorities? Shakira Mahadeva explores the challenges.
Person-centred care Person-centred care supports people to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to more effectively manage and make informed decisions about their own health and health care
In person-centred care, health and social care professionals work collaboratively with those that use their services.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
Reaction to the Francis Report - a summary
Any doubts we might have had about the scale and reach of the Francis Inquiry were put to rest at around 11.35am on Wednesday 6 February, when the final report was laid before Parliament and laid bare...
New materials on kidney disease for clinicians
One of our Closing the Gap projects has produced a new set of materials for clinicians on the subject of kidney disease. Coordinated by Kidney Research UK, the ENABLE–CKD project aims to improve th...
The Patient and Family-centred Care programme
The Patient and Family-centred Care programme is breaking new ground in improving the experience of care for patients and their families, while also improving the working lives of staff. Co-clinical l...
When doctors and patients talk
For most people who come into contact with the NHS, a key element of their experience of care will be their individual consultations with a clinician. Often these interactions are ones that happen in ...
Knowing what to expect during your stay in hospital
‘Diarising the inpatient journey’ is a new project led by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust as part of the Health Foundation’s Shared Purpose programme. By giving patients a schedul...
Putting patients at the heart of care
If we want to achieve truly person-centred care in the NHS we need to look at all the elements of care a person experiences: from the clinical care received to how a person is greeted by a cleaner or ...
‘How will this affect Esther?’ A person-centred approach for Wales
I recently heard nurse lecturer Austin Thomas speak about his experience of 30 operations after barely surviving a near-fatal road accident. His verdict was that many people working in the NHS say tha...
Measuring patient involvement is hard, but we must do it
The Department of Health’s Mandate is clear, the objective spelled out in plain language: the NHS must become dramatically better at involving people with long-term conditions in their own healthcare ...
The Liverpool Care Pathway - a family member's viewpoint
It is summer 2012. Sitting at the hospital bedside of a family member. The staff had just reviewed the continued appropriateness of the LCP – 'The Liverpool Care Pathway', a term we all came to know v...
The Liverpool Care Pathway debate
The controversy over the Liverpool Care Pathway that has raged for the past 10 days or so, following horrid and misleading headlines from some newspapers, has this week collided with the Government’s ...
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