People centred Care in theory and practice

On the 23-25 May 2016, the 16th International Conference on Integrated Care in Barcelona attracted 1200 delegates from nearly 50 countries, and a further 600 persons per day watching events via the live stream.

One of the highlights of the conference, is the speech of Dr Angela Coulter, Senior Research Scientist, from The Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH), University of Oxford, UK, about "People centred Care in theory and practice".

Partnership, Person-Centredness in Health Care

Person-centred care is an emerging concept in health care. Many people ask what is new about it, and as a matter of fact many health care professionals believe that they work in a person-centred way already. But shifting to a person-centred care practice often involves a profound change in culture and structure, and the key is a different approach in seeing the patient as a partner. The main thing is about being able to listen. Being able to listen to the patient and co-create a care plan; to create a partnership in health care.

The University of Gothenburg Centre for ...

Voices on person-centred care

What is person-centred care to a patient, a physician, a nurse, a hospital head of department, an industry representative and a researcher? How do these people, who all have experience of receiving or working with person-centred care, see person-centred care from their perspectives? Short film clips from the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-centred Care - GPCC. GPCC is an in terdisciplinary research centre, established in January 2010, with the support of the Swedish government's strategic investment in health and care research. Uniquely GPCC has evaluated the effects of person-centred care in controlled studies. This has established that person-centred care ...

How are “e-patients” transforming healthcare?

One of the best known e-patients, “e-patient Dave”,Dave deBronkart explains in this video how patients are achieving more power in their relationships with doctors and researchers because of the distribution of education and information on the Internet and connections made in social media during the Conference of the European Society for Medical Oncology #ESMO14 celebrated in Madrid in 2014.

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The Users’ Perspective: What Integrated Care should look like

At the International Conference on Integrated Care 2014, Robert Johnstone, Trustee of the International Alliance of Patients’ Organisations, gave a talk titled "The Users’ Perspective: What Integrated Care should look like". Having had chronic rheumatoid arthritis since the age of three, he shared his personal story of moving away from being “a very passive recipient of care” to becoming "a self-managing patient”. When he was about fourteen years old, he told his rheumatologist that eating acidic food seemed to make his pain worse. The rheumatologist replied that this was not possible, so because he trusted his doctor he kept eating ...

Partnering with patients to improve care: essential skills and strategies.

This link provides the contents from the conference organized by the McGill University Health Centre’s Institute for Strategic Analysis and Innovation (MUHC-ISAI), regarding patient centered health care systems.

The opening conference was performed by Angela Coulter, who reviewed the patient engagement history in health care systems and gave a broad overview on how patients could be involved in the entire functioning of the system.

In the website there can also be found the materials corresponding to the following six sessions:

• Patient engagement leadership.
• Patient partnership: recruitment, training, governance and evaluation.
• How does the patient experience drive improvement?
• Building capacity ...