Evidence and Resources Library

Exploring the adoption of Schwartz Center Rounds in England, 2009–2015

This study examines the adoption of Schwartz Center Rounds in England, investigating the rate at which Rounds were adopted and considering some of the factors which contributed to their implementation.

Why might good people deliver bad care?

This TED talk exposes the uncomfortable truth that caring is hard, emotional work. The emotional labour of healthcare professionals needs to be recognised and accounted for by management practice in the same way that we acknowledge and account for physical labour.

Circle of Care animation

This animation is from Performing Medicine and shows the Circle of Care, a framework which enables healthcare staff to think about, practise and demonstrate compassionate care. The framework places compassionate care in a broad social and interpersonal context.

Stress in NHS staff triggers defensive inward-focussing and an associated loss of connection with colleagues: this is reversed by Schwartz Rounds

Stress in NHS staff triggers defensive inward-focussing and an associated loss of connection with colleagues: this is reversed by Schwartz Rounds

This paper explores how Schwartz Rounds help to provide emotional support to healthcare staff, with such support indirectly improving patient care.

Schwartz Centre Rounds: a new initiative in the undergraduate curriculum—what do medical students think?

This paper asks whether the current Schwartz Centre Rounds (SCRs) model could be extrapolated into the UK undergraduate medical curriculum. Two pilots are run in a UK medical school and are then subsequently evaluated, yielding largely positive feedback.

Improving childhood nutrition and wellness in South Africa

To supplement an ongoing local quality improvement (QI) intervention addressing poor nutritional outcomes in children, experience-based co-design (EBCD) was used to enhance previously low levels of mother, carer and staff engagement.

Schwartz Rounds: organisational case study

Staff at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust explain how Schwartz Rounds have helped their organisation

What is the potential of patient shadowing as a patient-centred method?

This paper argues that patient shadowing is an effective method for delivering patient-centred care.

Schwartz information pack for smaller organisations

This downloadable information pack gives you all the details of the training and support package for smaller organisations looking to introduce Schwartz Rounds.