Sweeney Programme
We believe that staff can provide the best care by stepping back and seeing the experience of their care through patients’ eyes. Our unique improvement programme equips staff with the tools to do this.
More about Sweeney Programme
No one can imagine the unimaginable except those, like me, who are experiencing it
Dr Kieran Sweeney describes his experience of care
- Benefits of the Sweeney Programme
How can my organisation benefit from the Sweeney Programme?
- Our impact: The Sweeney Programme
Find out about the impact of our Sweeney Programme
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Patients and staff as codesigners of healthcare services
This article describes how experience-based co-design can be used to ensure that healthcare organisations realise the full potential of patients—the biggest resource they have for improving the quality of care.
10 February 2015 Evidence -
Testing accelerated experience-based co-design
A qualitative study of using a national archive of patient experience narrative interviews to promote rapid patient-centred service improvement
04 February 2014 Evidence -
What is the potential of patient shadowing as a patient-centred method?
This paper argues that patient shadowing is an effective method for delivering patient-centred care.
10 May 2016 Evidence
Evidence of impact
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News story 23 December 2019
Point of Care Foundation selected as partner in Alder Hey transformation programme
The Point of Care Foundation is to provide organisation-wide training in patient-centred quality improvement in a transformation project at Alder Hey Children's Hospital.
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Blog 16 November 2019
“If only we had known”: learning what really matters to parents of premature babies
Susan Giboney writes about how a neonatal intensive care unit in Portland, Oregon improved care for premature babies - by asking parents what they needed.
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News story 23 October 2019
Impact Report 2019 published
We have published our impact report for the period up to April 2019.