Evidence and Resources Library

Schwartz Rounds Organisational Guide and Film

Following the research evaluation by Professor Jill Maben et al on Schwartz Rounds in England, their research team have released An Organisational Guide and Film to help those running (or planning to run) Rounds.

Watch a Schwartz Round

An edited film of a Schwartz Round at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust.

Our impact: The Schwartz Rounds programme

This report shows the difference that our Schwartz Rounds programme makes to healthcare staff, and the organisations they work in.

Behind Closed Doors

This briefing highlights the latest evidence on NHS staff, their experience at work, the pressures they face and the consequences for patients. The Point of Care Foundation believes that it’s critically important that NHS employers pay attention to staff and their experience at work because when staff feel positive and engaged with work it has a positive impact on patient experience.

The evidence on staff and patient experience

This presentation from the HOPE network in March 2017 demonstrates that the experience of staff, positive or negative, is an accurate predictor of patient experience.

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.