Person-centred care
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Highlighted resources
Connecting patients, practitioners and regulators in supporting positive experiences and processes of shared decision making: A progress report
This paper describes a novel approach to explore how regulators, working with patients and practitioners, may contribute to supporting person-centred care and processes of shared decision making in implementing professional standards and reducing harms.
SafeScript podcast 4: Patient-centred care: An insider’s view
A conversation between podcast host Lynn Weekes; Ferghal Armstrong, a general practitioner, Jarrod McMaugh, a community pharmacist and President of Chronic Pain Australia and Denise “Rustie” Lassam, a person with lived experience of addiction to prescription medicines. This discussion focuses on patient-centred care and the importance of language in reducing stigma.
Podcast – Making it Real: How to do it
This podcast recording is an interview between Think Personal Act Local’s Strategic Communications Advisor Sanchi Murison and Kate Sibthorp, who helped to co-produce the popular “Making it Real” framework for organisations to get better at personalised care and support.
Latest Patient Safety Videos
A.I. for Person-Centred Care: Alessandra Pascale
This presentation by Alessandra Pascale, a research scientist and manager for IBM’s AI and Human interaction team, delivers a presentation on IBM’s advances in A.I. technology to move more towards a person-centred health care approach in order to achieve effective preventative care and better health outcomes.
Connected Community Care
The Connected Community Care for Cancer Service has received over £500,000 in funding from Macmillan and aims to deliver integrated, person-centred care. It will provide a single point of access through which a patient living with cancer can be referred.
Blog posts
Are “frailty units” and “dementia wards” the anathema of pure person-centred care?
Person-centred care, for those who are enthusiastic about it like me, can at times feel like a religion. To be a pure follower of this approach, it means respecting the holistic aspects of a person, including perhaps interests and beliefs. Whilst “medicalisation” might not necessarily be a dirty word, the “person-centred approach”, as advocated by Dewing, McCormack, Rogers and Kitwood amongst others, means trying to avoid pigeon-holing people according to their diagnostic labels. This is a question of culture, as well as operational settings.
People doing it for themselves – stories of success in support planning
Martin Walker’s road trip looking for stories of success in support planning takes him to the South West, where he meets someone managing care and support independently.
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