Blog posts

• Julian Groves 31 January 2019

  Care for the carers, improve care – an introduction to Schwartz Rounds

  Julian Groves gives an overview of Schwartz Rounds and why we are supporting a pilot programme to trial Rounds in children's social care organisations.

• Adam Crosier Word of Mouth Research 17 October 2018

  Improving children’s cancer services with patient experience data

  How the experience of patients and their families can help transform children and young people's cancer services

• 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.