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01 September 2020
Supporting senior leaders through Schwartz Rounds
Bev Fitzsimons writes about new findings on how executives experience Schwartz Rounds.
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17 June 2020
We mustn’t silence patients and families in service design
We need to ensure patient experience is part of the conversation as we think about post-Covid services, writes Bev Fitzsimons.
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01 May 2020
Why it matters that healthcare staff share their experiences, even in a crisis
Bev Fitzsimons reflects on stories from healthcare workers caring for patients and families during the Covid-19 crisis and discusses the need for staff to share their experiences now more than ever.
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14 April 2020
Maintaining humanity in a time of crisis: the new normal
With several of our Sweeney projects on hold, Bev Fitzsimons writes about how a digital check in enabled some of our collaborative partners to continue to support one another - and provide a small dose of normality in strange times.
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27 January 2020
How do we humanise integrated care?
Bev Fitzsimons considers the challenges and opportunities of working with Integrated Care Systems
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20 July 2018
Introducing the Sweeney Community
We're introducing a new newsletter about our quality improvement work
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24 May 2018
Dying matters: Living well to the very end
Our Head of Improvement Bev Fitzsimons wrote a blog for NHS England in support of Dying Matters Week (14-18 May) in which she described the work of our end-of-life care collaborative 'Living Well to the Very End'.
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18 April 2018
Making healthcare more human: Patient perspectives
Bev Fitzsimons looks back at what we learned about patient experience at last month’s conference on ‘Making Healthcare More Human’.
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05 December 2017
‘From a vision of patient engagement, to meaningful enactment’
'Often in healthcare we talk about the way in which staff interact with patients. But we talk much less about this being a reciprocal relationship between patients and staff, in which both bring value to the relationship'
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05 May 2017
Transatlantic co-design: learning from each other
In this blog, Bev Fitzsimons recounts her trip to Toronto to run a training workshop for the Change Foundation's 'Changing Care' programme. As well as identifying shared challenges, she also considers how we can learn from one another.