What matters to you at the moment, in the next few months and in the coming year?
Consider:
- What your patient is thinking?
- Strengths-based Approaches which support an individual’s independence, resilience, ability to make choices and wellbeing.
- How would you know that what we have offered has been useful?
- Continuity of relationship – the number and variety of people contributing to the care of people in their last years/months/days of life can be difficult for them and their family/carers to comprehend and may increase admissions to hospital.
- Aim for partnership to coproduce goals of care
Develop Highly Functional Teams to be able to elicit aspirations and coproduce care. These are teams which are cohesive, communicate well, are clear on their roles and goals, have mutual regard and high levels of social capital within the team. They demonstrate:
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Currently (April 2025) I work as a Humanist Chaplain in an Acute East London NHS Hospital Trust, hold the role as the Non-Executive Director for Greener Practice and am an Associate with the QMUL Medical School Flourishing Team.
I have held roles in the RCGP and am Emeritus Provost of the RCGP North East London Faculty . I was Provost from 2019 to 2022 and responsible for Leadership, Scholarship and Fellowship. Prior to this I was Chair from 2016 to 2019 and Treasurer from 2014 to 2016.
I have an interest in trauma transformed care and creative climate health creation. I have co-facilitated the London Deep End Health Equity Leadership platform growing leaders for fairer systems and healthier places.
The published work informing this web page can be found here: The Handy Approach – Quick Integrated Person-Centred Support Preparation
I am committed to #healthierhealthcare which is about the delivery of proportionate, respectful, and equitable care.
More about me here in the Lancet 2004: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)66406-9/fulltext
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