Quality Time: Using EBCD to capture staff experience

Quality Time: Using EBCD to capture staff experience

In the Quality Time study, researchers investigated whether using experience-based co-design (EBCD) is an effective way to capture staff experience as a way to improve service design.

Schwartz Rounds: Supporting mental health workers with the emotional impact of their work

This study offers a rare mixed‐method evaluation of Schwartz Rounds in a mental healthcare setting.

“I can’t stop thinking about it”: Schwartz Rounds ® an intervention to support students and higher education staff with emotional, social and ethical experiences at work

This article in the Journal of Clinical Nursing makes the case for offering Schwartz Rounds to students and higher education staff.

I wonder how much you can take the exec hat off?

A qualitative study of senior leaders' experience of Schwartz Rounds

The Journal of Health Design (JHD) – Vol 4, No 2 (2019)

This report is on the '4Cs Project', a project designed and driven by a multidisciplinary team of staff caring for patients with frailty in a community hospital setting at Worcester City In Patient Unit. The project was supported by the Point of Care Foundation's ‘Living well to the very end’ Sweeney Programme.

A realist informed mixed methods evaluation of Schwartz Rounds in England

This study shows that healthcare staff who regularly attend Schwartz Rounds experience less psychological distress and have increased empathy and compassion for patients and colleagues.

Exploring the adoption of Schwartz Center Rounds in England, 2009–2015

This study examines the adoption of Schwartz Center Rounds in England, investigating the rate at which Rounds were adopted and considering some of the factors which contributed to their implementation.

Stress in NHS staff triggers defensive inward-focussing and an associated loss of connection with colleagues: this is reversed by Schwartz Rounds

Stress in NHS staff triggers defensive inward-focussing and an associated loss of connection with colleagues: this is reversed by Schwartz Rounds

This paper explores how Schwartz Rounds help to provide emotional support to healthcare staff, with such support indirectly improving patient care.

Schwartz Centre Rounds: a new initiative in the undergraduate curriculum—what do medical students think?

This paper asks whether the current Schwartz Centre Rounds (SCRs) model could be extrapolated into the UK undergraduate medical curriculum. Two pilots are run in a UK medical school and are then subsequently evaluated, yielding largely positive feedback.