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What is person-centred care and why is it important
This brief document provides an overview of what person-centred care is and why it is important. It sets out how person-centred care is a way of thinking and doing things that sees the people using health and social services as equal partners in planning, developing and monitoring care to make sure it meets their needs and argues that it is a key component of developing high quality healthcare.
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Powerful people: reinforcing the power of citizens and communities in health and care
This report argues for giving citizens greater control over their own health and care, so that services are redesigned around their needs and aspirations, to improve health outcomes and to save money by supporting people better to manage their conditions themselves.
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The eight principles of patient-centred care
This webpage summarises findings from work by researchers from Harvard Medical Shool on behalf of Picker Institute and The Commonewalth Fund. It draws on a literature review and wide range of focus groups to identify 8 Principles of Patient Centred Care that are needed to meet the Institute of Medicine's definition of patient-centred care.
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Person-centred Care Around the World
This directory of person-centred care organisations around the world was produced as part of an international environment scan of the field of person-centred care undertaken by Health Policy Partnership.
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Person-centred care Health Foundation resources
This document links through to all Health Foundation programmes and publications related to Person-centred care.
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Every moment counts: a narrative for person-centred coordinated care for people near the end of life
This resource sets out how good, coordinated – or integrated – care looks to people near the end of life and is written from their point of view.
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I’m Still Me: a narrative for coordinated support for older people
This document sets out how coordinated – or integrated – care and support looks and feels to older people and is written from their point of view.
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Putting person-centred care into practice – learning from experience
This hour-long webinar, hosted by Adrian Sieff, Assistant Director at the Health Foundation, provides an excellent introduction to how to understand and implement shared decision making and self-management support into mainstream health care services. It includes presentations by Nahid Ahmad and Holly Krelle from ICF International.
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We forget to ask patients what their goals are
In this blog primary care doctor Mitch Kaminski provides a powerful case study showing how important it is to understand the outcomes patients want from their care before considering or implementing a treatment plan.