Safe, compassionate care for frail older people using an integrated care pathway

"This document summarises the evidence of the effects of an integrated pathway of care for older people and suggests how a pathway can be commissioned effectively using levers and incentives across providers."

Safe, compassionate care for frail older people using an integrated care pathway: practical guidance for commissioners, providers and nursing, medical and allied health professional leaders
NHS England, South
February 2014

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Read a summary from the Commissioning Elf here.

Measuring a caring culture in hospitals

"Characteristics of the instruments included in this review could provide useful input for the design of a reliable and valid instrument for measuring a caring culture in hospitals."

Measuring a caring culture in hospitals: a systematic review of instruments
G Hesselink, E Kuis, M Pijnenburg, H Wollersheim
BMJ Open, 2013, 3:e003416

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Future hospital: caring for medical patients

"Future hospital: caring for medical patients focuses on the care of acutely ill medical patients, the organisation of medical services, and the role of physicians and doctors in training across the medical specialties in England and Wales."

Future hospital: caring for medical patients
Future Hospital Commission
September 2013

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Care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, commitment

"The 6Cs Live! Communication hub will offer support and help to staff to deliver the six areas of action by signposting to evidence based tools and techniques as well as examples of how colleagues from across the country have delivered improvement in these areas."

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Compassion in practice

"This strategy sets out our shared purpose as nurses, midwives and care staff to deliver high quality, compassionate care, and to achieve excellent health and wellbeing outcomes."

Compassion in practice
Commissioning Board Chief Nursing Officer, DH Chief Nursing Adviser
Department of Health
December 2012

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Quality with compassion: the future of nursing education

"Graduate nurses have played and will continue to play a key role in driving up standards and preparing a nursing workforce fit for the future."

Quality with compassion: the future of nursing education: Report of the Willis Commission
Royal College of Nursing
November 2012

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