Humanising Healthcare through Person-centred Practice: Theoretical Foundations for Change

In Theoretically Framing Person-centredness in Nursing and Healthcare Person-centredness remains widely adopted yet inconsistently defined across healthcare disciplines, limiting rigorous implementation and evaluation.Humanising Healthcare presents the Person-centred Nursing Framework and Person-centred Practice Framework, two globally adopted mid-range theories translated into multiple languages.Applied in over 31 countries, these theories guide design, delivery, and assessment of person-centred practices. Central to this book is an extensive evidence-base of collaborative research derived from these frameworks, alongside measurement and evaluation methods for assessing processes and outcomes.Chapters address philosophical and conceptual ideas underpinning person-centredness, ecological perspectives on health and care systems, workforce developments for effective care provision, and implementation perspectives that adopt a whole-systems approach.Through this collected body of work, th