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01 November 2015 Case study
Understanding and improving the patient experience
This resource explores the challenges of measuring patient experience, how data should be collected and presented, what to measure, and how to make sense of qualitative data. It provides various infographics to relate its evidence and findings.
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12 October 2015 Evidence
Work and wellbeing in the NHS: why staff health matters to patient care
This report by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) sets out why it is in the best interests of both patients and NHS organisations for the health, wellbeing and engagement of the NHS workforce to be prioritised.
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01 April 2015 Evidence
Reframing the work on patient experience improvement
This article that patient experience needs to be viewed as a primary goal in healthcare alongside other aspects such as quality and safety, rather than as an isolated aim.
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10 February 2015 Evidence
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.
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29 October 2014 Case study
Five tips on how the NHS can engage patients and the public
In this Guardian opinion piece, Ceinwen Giles gives five tips on engaging patients and the public in the NHS, paying particular attention to how to involve the "unusual suspects".
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04 June 2014 Evidence
PFCC programme report
This report describes the goals of the programme which ran with fifteen teams in 11 NHS organisations across England and Wales from January 2012 to November 2013.
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01 March 2014 Evidence
Enhancing experience of healthcare: a summary of the evidence
This report, compiled from 110 systematic reports, outlines a number of proven approaches to improve patient practice.
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04 February 2014 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
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15 January 2014 Evidence
Staff care: How to engage staff in the NHS and why it matters
Our inaugural report argues that caring about people working in healthcare is the key to developing a caring, compassionate health service. Moreover, it argues that supporting staff should be a central driver in improving patient care, productivity and financial performance.
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12 November 2013 Video
Dr Kieran Sweeney talks about his experiences as a cancer patient
Dr Kieran Sweeny talks about his experience of receiving a terminal diagnosis of cancer. Kieran notices that the staff appear hesitant to tell him directly that he is going to die, only finding out the truth when reading his discharge letter at home. Kieran reflects on possible reasons behind the care that he received.