#FromThePointOfCare
What does humanised health and care mean?
The answer to this question is often captured best by the people experiencing it: patients, their families and carers, and people delivering health and care services.
We’ve compiled a list of stories we’ve seen that illustrate what human health and care is all about. Some are fairly recent, some much older, some are true stories, some fictional – but they all speak in different ways to a universal truth about why people should lie at the heart of care.
We’ll share more via social media when we see them – and would love to see your examples too.
Artists work with patients to transform the environment at health facilities to support wellbeing
“A doctor’s mission is not just to prevent death but to improve the quality of life. That’s why you treat a disease, you may win or you may lose, but you treat a person I guarantee you will win every time no matter what the outcome.”
A blog from NHS GP Jonathan Tomlinson
A Netflix series looking at ‘blue zones’ – communities around the world where people live unusually long and fulfilled lives
Veteran TV presented Esther Rantzen gives an interview about her cancer diagnosis
A true story about a man who befriends his former college professor in the last months of life.
A podcast series by Serial Productions and The New York Times, telling the stories of women experiencing poor care at a fertility clinic at Yale.
An article by comedian Mark Steel about his experience of cancer diagnosis and care.
An episode of the long-running BBC drama featuring Rosie Jones as an expectant mother with cerebral palsy.