Person Centered Care 2025 – it’s high time that we nudge the rhetoric into reality
By Professor Andrew Miles and Professor Sir Jonathan Elliott Asbridge from The European Society for Person Centered Healthcare (ESPCH).
Talking PCC, vs. doing PCC
A good place to start, we thought, would be to ask ourselves the question: “What major progress has been made in person-centered care (PCC) over these last two years? Sadly, we have to answers: “Broadly speaking, worldwide, very little’. So we ask, then, a second question: Why is this the case?
In this article the professors will discuss the talking and doing PCC. There are many reasons why this is the case. Professor Miles & Professor Sir Jonathan Asbridge view, the principal factor underpinning this observation is a continuing and widespread confusion as to what exactly PCC is, and what it isn’t. They find this hardly surprising, given the hundreds of definitions of PCC that exist with the general literature, formulated as they have been over many decades by multiplicity of academic institutions and care organisations worldwide.