Patient Voices

Ideas

Some images to capture what creative enquiry spaces can offer:

Papers

Humanising leadership

Park et al in their paper Co-Creating a Thriving Human-Centered Health System in the Post-Covid-19 Era draw upon organisational developmental research to conceptualise ways in which leaders can rebuild healthcare systems promoting workforce wellbeing.

Although these pandemic times are volatile and uncertain there is also cause for hope, historically pandemics have given rise to pan-systemic changes. In these times people and relationship matter more. There is an opportunity to humanise the leadership to deliver systemic changes.

Grief

Grief is a theme emerging in these COVID times, part of lived experience of being human and part of flourishing - and perhaps as Gavin Blench writes at the top of this page - learning 'to dance with those partners of loss, pain and decline' is part of this journey.

https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1803 COVID grief has cracked us open.

https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/374/bmj.n2144.full.pdf why we need to make space for grief.

'Doctors are often encouraged or even required to set aside their own grief in the name of professionalism and efficient patient care. But this makes us all less authentic and more alone. Being open about our own experiences of grief, showing “the strength of vulnerability,” can help others as well as ourselves and may further shift society’s attitudes to death and loss'.

Burnout

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmp2003149 Physician burnout interrupted - explores the importance of Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness for supporting physician wellbeing and intrinsic motivation and how implemented wellbeing measures often fail to deliver on these.

Self-compassion

https://self-compassion.org/the-three-elements-of-self-compassion-2/ Self-kindness, Common humanity, Mindfulness.