Over 100 people took part in GPCC’s workshop at International Forum of Quality and Safety in Healthcare 2022. The international conference, organised by the BMJ and the U.S. based international independent not-for-profit organisation Institute for Healthcare Improvement IHI, took place for the second time in Gothenburg 20-22 June. The theme of the workshop was “Interested in implementing person-centred care? We have the tools to help!”.
The speakers at the workshop were Karl Swedberg, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy and GPCC, Emma Forsgren, Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy and GPCC, Håkan Hedman, The Swedish Kidney Association and GPCC, Helena Fridberg, Dalarna University and GPCC and Lilas Ali, Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy and GPCC.
“I am a partner in my care”
After an introduction to GPCC by Lilas Ali, Håkan Hedman gave an account of his work with the Centre, as well as his own life-long experience as a patient in Swedish health care, and his thoughts on person-centred care. “I am a person, not an object”, and “I am a partner in my care”, were some of the things he stressed.
Testing the partnership
During the workshop the audience, who were seated around tables of seven, were introduced to the various tools for learning about and implementing person-centred care developed by GPCC. Karl Swedberg presented The European standard ‘Patient involvement in healthcare – Minimum requirements for person-centred care’.
Emma Forsgren then went on to describe the cost free educational tools Mutual Meetings online education package and the PCC-game App. She then led the audience in a taster exercise from the Mutual Meetings education package. This was on the subject of partnership, which is a key building block of person-centred care, as described by GPCC.
How to measure person-centred care? Ask the patients!
Helena Fridberg then shared a tool she had developed as a part of her PhD work. This tool was a generic questionnaire aimed at measuring to what degree health care is person-centred, by measuring the patients’ perception of person-centred care. Read Helena Fridberg’s PhD thesis here.
