Blog posts

• Joanna Goodrich 28 September 2018

  “You will make mistakes – and that is normal”

  Point of Care Foundation Associate Joanna Goodrich writes on the findings of our work looking at the teaching of professionalism in UK medical schools.

• Jocelyn Cornwell 12 September 2018

  How do trusts engage with their ‘most important asset’?

  Jocelyn Cornwell discusses the key lessons to draw from case studies of staff engagement at three NHS trusts.

• Jocelyn Cornwell 13 August 2018

  ‘The workforce’: People and relationships

  To solve the labour crisis in the NHS, we need to stop talking about ‘the workforce’ and start talking about people and relationships, argues Jocelyn Cornwell

• Bev Fitzsimons 20 July 2018

  Introducing the Sweeney Community

  We're introducing a new newsletter about our quality improvement work

• Bev Fitzsimons and Joanna Goodrich 05 June 2018

  ‘What matters to you’ day – starting conversations that can transform care

  Head of Improvement Bev Fitzsimons and Point of Care Foundation Associate Joanna Goodrich discuss the 'What matters to you' initiative that encourages hospitals to put patients first.

• Rhiannon Barker; Karen Ford; Jocelyn Cornwell Centre for Health Service Studies, University of Kent; Health research and policy consultant; Point of Care Foundation 29 May 2018

  What does staff engagement mean in the NHS and why is it important?

  Our chief executive Jocelyn Cornwell joined Rhiannon Barker and Karen Ford to co-author a blog for the BMJ, detailing findings from a Health Foundation-funded project looking at staff engagement in the NHS

• Bev Fitzsimons 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'.

• Louise Locock Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen 21 May 2018

  How do we make patient experience data more useful?

  Louise Locock describes the development of a new guide to help frontline NHS staff make better use of patient experience data.

• Jocelyn Cornwell 08 May 2018

  What is human healthcare?

  Jocelyn Cornwell reviews some of the key questions arising at our conference on ‘making healthcare more human’, and the solutions identified.

• Dr Jill Maben University of Surrey 30 April 2018

  Enabling and supporting staff to care well

  Jill Maben writes about her research into the challenges of working in healthcare and how these can be overcome to help staff to care well for their patients.