Policy Bites – A whole-systems approach to person-centred care

3Join us for a Policy Bites lunchtime seminar on "A Whole-Systems Approach to the Development of Person-centred Care" with Professor Brendan McCormack.

Light lunch will be provided. Space is limited. Please register to secure your place.

A Whole-Systems Approach to the Development of Person-centred Care

Person-centred care continues to be a dominant focus as the hallmark of a high quality healthcare service. However, despite more than 20 years of developments in person-centred care, including concept and theory development, intervention implementation and evaluation and advances in patient-reported outcomes, it seems that most health systems do not have person-centred systems to sustain person-centred care. Research and development in person-centredness continues to primarily focus on patient experience as a discrete event of care and much of the outcome measurement tends to focus at this level also. A person-centred service goes beyond such narrow perspectives of service delivery and quality systems, and instead aims to understand what it means to have a person-centred service that is person-centred for all persons.

Adopting a whole-systems approach to the development of person-centred services is crucial to achieve the goal of person-centredness for all persons. These issues will be explored in this presentation and a whole-systems methodology proposed for considering the systematic development of person-centredness at all levels of the healthcare system.

About the speaker

Professor Brendan McCormack is Academic Chair of the Sydney Policy Lab's CARE program and Dean of the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sydney. An internationally-renowned nursing leader, Brendan has spent his career enabling person-centred practices in nursing and healthcare through participatory action research. Brendan has a deep commitment to cultures and practices of relational care.

Format

30 minutes presentation by Professor McCormack followed by audience discussion.

Time and location

1:00 pm, Tuesday 15 October.

Seminar Room 203, RD Watt Building (A04), Science Road, The University of Sydney, NSW 2050.

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Accessibility

We are committed to ensuring our spaces are safe, accessible and enjoyable for all. The RD Watt building is fully accessible for people who use wheelchairs or other mobility aids and service animals are welcome. Enter via the rear door of the RD Watt Building, near the entrance to the Social Sciences Building at the University of Sydney. Our meeting and events space is equipped with PA and assistive listening systems.

If you have any other access requirements, please do let us know when you register.

About Policy Bites

The Sydney Policy Lab’s lunchtime seminars – Policy Bites – are a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their exploratory and applied policy work in its early stages. Each public seminar gathers the Lab community in our collaborative space to hear and discuss new research as we exchange ideas across disciplines.

Policy Bites are organised by Dr Kate Harrison Brennan (Director, Sydney Policy Lab), Dr Assel Mussagulova (Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration, School of Social and Political Sciences) and Associate Professor Meru Sheel (Sydney School of Public Health).