Search Tag: patient-centred care
2025 18 Oct
Healthcare is moving from disconnected digitisation to purposeful integration where data, workflows and people align around patient value. The shift demands more than new tools: it requires upgraded infrastructure, clear governance, skilled teams and a culture that treats technology as an enabler of safer, faster, fairer care. AI now sits...Read more
2025 14 Oct
This article illustrates two cases of critically ill patients where protracted and burdensome life-saving measures led to discord and moral distress among the ICU team, eventually mitigated by eliciting clear goals and wishes from the patient despite the plan of care and clinical interventions remaining unchanged. The takeaway in these cases is how...Read more
2025 24 Aug
Despite the central role of antenatal imaging in maternal and foetal healthcare, there has been limited co-produced research that reflects the views of service users and healthcare professionals. To address this gap, a UK-wide initiative was undertaken to identify the most pressing research questions in pregnancy scanning. The priority setting...Read more
2025 01 Aug
A reassuring touch, a compassionate glance, a shared moment of quiet understanding—these interactions form the bedrock of empathetic care in healthcare settings. Preserving the essence of human connection is becoming increasingly important; at the same time, AI and immersive technologies are redefining the possibilities of patient support, clinical...Read more
2025 05 Jul
Diabetes is a lifelong condition that demands constant vigilance and personal effort to manage effectively. For the 590 million people worldwide currently living with diabetes—a figure projected to reach 853 million by 2050—daily management decisions involve more than medication. They require continuous monitoring, proactive lifestyle adjustments...Read more
2025 22 Jun
In the healthcare sector, strategic planning is a foundational discipline essential to organisational performance. Hospitals no longer treat planning as a periodic administrative task; instead, it has become a continuous, integrated process that drives competitiveness, resource optimisation and patient-centred care. Simultaneously, strategic aggressiveness—marked...Read more
2025 28 Feb
The session "Bringing Value-based Radiology to the Next Level" at the European Congress of Radiology explored the evolving role of radiology in delivering patient-centred value. Experts discussed metrics for assessing radiology’s impact, the diverse perspectives of stakeholders and the integration of sustainability into value-based care. ...Read more
2025 13 Feb
Organisational professionalism (OP) in healthcare extends beyond individual competence and ethical behaviour to encompass the collective culture, governance and accountability frameworks of institutions. High-performing healthcare organisations recognise that fostering OP is essential for maintaining public trust, ensuring patient-centred care...Read more
2025 12 Feb
Organisational professionalism (OP) in healthcare extends beyond individual competence and ethical behaviour to encompass the collective culture, governance and accountability frameworks of institutions. High-performing healthcare organisations recognise that fostering OP is essential for maintaining public trust, ensuring patient-centred care and...Read more
2025 28 Jan
Value analysis plays a pivotal role in helping healthcare organisations make well-informed decisions that enhance patient care while optimising resources and managing costs. This structured approach goes beyond evaluating financial impacts by assessing the overall value of products, services and technologies. Integrating value analysis into core...Read more
2025 19 Jan
Effective communication plays a pivotal role in delivering patient-centred care in radiography. As radiographers interact with patients during diagnostic and interventional procedures, their ability to convey information clearly and compassionately can significantly impact patient experience, trust and safety. The European Society of Radiology...Read more
2025 19 Jan
Effective communication plays a pivotal role in delivering patient-centred care in radiography. As radiographers interact with patients during diagnostic and interventional procedures, their ability to convey information clearly and compassionately can significantly impact patient experience, trust and safety. The European Society of Radiology...Read more
2024 02 Dec
Effective communication is the backbone of success across all industries, but in healthcare, it is particularly vital. The ability to convey ideas, share information and collaborate with diverse teams is crucial to delivering quality patient care and ensuring organisational efficiency. Strong communication not only fosters collaboration but also...Read more
2024 17 Nov
Automation is transforming healthcare administration, turning a historically resource-intensive area into an efficient, patient-centred system. Integrating advanced technologies enables healthcare organisations to reduce inefficiencies, improve compliance and enhance the quality of care. With administrative tasks accounting for a significant portion...Read more
2024 17 Nov
Automation is transforming healthcare administration, turning a historically resource-intensive area into an efficient, patient-centred system. Integrating advanced technologies enables healthcare organisations to reduce inefficiencies, improve compliance and enhance the quality of care. With administrative tasks accounting for a significant portion...Read more
2024 28 Oct
In recent years, patient-centred care has become the cornerstone of healthcare practice, focusing on involving patients in decision-making. Central to this evolution is the patient decision aid (PDA), a tool designed to help individuals comprehend their healthcare choices, weigh the benefits and risks, and participate actively in decisions about...Read more
2024 02 Jul
Implementing patient-centred palliative care therapies, including prescribing, adjusting, or discontinuing medications as needed, may help control symptoms and improve the quality of life for people with heart disease, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association. The statement reviews current evidence on the...Read more
2024 19 Apr
Decision-making in the ICU is a multifaceted process that involves clinical assessment, collaboration among multidisciplinary teams, ethical considerations, evidence-based practice, communication, and continuous adaptation to evolving clinical scenarios. Read more
2023 30 Nov
Collaboration between critical care doctors, patients and families is essential to managing critically ill patients. Promoting open communication, shared decision-making, and emotional support is essential to ensure a patient-centred approach in critical care settings. Communication plays a crucial role in a critical care setting....Read more
2023 30 Nov
This article aims to address patient-family-centred care programmes, starting from their origins and discussing new protocols. Critically ill patients entail a great complexity of care. ICU staff has focused on their care, with family members and surrogates put aside for decades. In recent years, we are witnessing a paradigm shift...Read more
2023 30 Nov
Intensive care impacts more than the patient, with ripple effects for families, employers and wider societies. Patient-centred outcomes reiterate the need for clinical therapies targeting the biological circuitry of the big-hitting syndromes like ARDS, sepsis, delirium, renal failure and recognising they persist beyond the veil of discharge....Read more
2023 16 Aug
A few months ago, I ruptured my plantar fasciitis. After wearing a boot for eight long weeks and receiving shock therapy, I was finally cleared to start working out again. I felt good and strong, so I wanted to continue my efforts while at a conference. Last week, I attempted my routine at the hotel gym, only to pull my gluteal muscle. Little...Read more
2020 24 Nov
Survivors of critical illness and their caregivers frequently face long-term impairments of cognition, mental health, mobility and beyond, which demand for a patient-centred transition management and well-coordinated, outpatient post-ICU care. Introduction In recent years, the post-ICU sequelae of survivors of critical illness have become...Read more
2020 12 Nov
Healthcare is in constant change. Today the change is driven by the patients. Access to patient data has changed the way healthcare is delivered, where it is delivered and who delivers it. A lot has already been achieved, and although there is still long way to go, the result will be the truly person-centric healthcare. Key Points...Read more
2020 22 Oct
Today’s patient is armed, informed and fully engaged in their care delivery. How does this abundance of knowledge change hospital systems and care delivery? How much is the patient already a care consumer with choices - and is there such a thing as too much choice? What innovative ideas is the market offering to face these challenges?...Read more
2020 16 Mar
Today, 16 March 2020, submission of entries for the International Hospital Federation (IHF) Awards 2020 has opened. The awards will be presented during the 44th IHF World Hospital Congress (WHC) to be held on 2-5 November 2020 in Barcelona, Spain. You may also like : Winners of the IHF Awards 2019 The IHF Awards...Read more