Person Centered Care

Person Centered Care? Together we can do it, but it needs us all.

Our special guests for our Mosaic’s Community Life Podcast – Life in Canada! Episode 12 Part 1 of 2

Jane Teasdale co-owner of Mosaic Home Care Services & Community Resource Centre is interviewing two special guests from the UK. Professor Andrew Miles and Professor Sir Jonathan Elliott Asbridge are the two senior officers and founders of The European Society for Person Centered Healthcare http://www.pchealthcare.org.uk/

In this video and by the end of the Part 1 & 2 sessions you will have been provided with perspectives and explanations of the fundamental aspects of person centered care and its development. Additionally, you will have gained insight into the human endeavour that is person centered care and the complexity and hard work associated with implementing it. It is of course, increasingly a buzz word, and rightly so. But we hope to give it a fuller context.

A little bit of information with regards to our two guests on the video. Professor Andrew Miles and Professor Sir Jonathan Elliott Asbridge.

Professor Andrew Miles

Professor Andrew Miles BMedSci MSc MPhil PhD DSc (hc) is Senior Vice President and Secretary General of the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare (ESPCH), and a full professor of person-centered care in the UK and at several universities across Europe. He is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare, and Editor-in-Chief of the Division on Person-Centered Care of the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. [andrew. miles@pchealthcare.org.uk]

Professor Sir Jonathan Elliott Asbridge

Professor Sir Jonathan Elliott Asbridge DSc (hc) DHSc (hc) DSc (hc) is President and Chairman of Council of the ESPCH and the Chief Clinical Officer at Sciensus UK. Sir Jonathan was formerly President of the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council, Chief Nurse at the Oxford and Cambridge teaching hospitals, and Chief Executive/ Chief Nurse of Bart’s and The London NHS Trust, London, UK. [jonathan.asbridge@btinternet. com]. Fuller biographies for interested readers are available at: http://pchealthcare.org. uk/about-esp

You can also find their article which was highlighted in our Winter 2023 Newsletter Person Centered Care? Together we can do it, but it needs us all.
By Professor Andrew Miles and Professor Sir Jonathan Elliott Asbridge

https://mosaichomecare.com/blog/care-as-a-human-endeavour/

Some excerpts from their Article below featured in our Winter 2023 Mosaic Newsletter

“We believe that modern medicine and healthcare are victims of their own successes. How is it that we can confidently make such a claim? Have not the last 120 years seen exponential advances in the technological and biomedical power of healthcare systems that have radically transformed the scope, possibility, and power of clinical practice, driving enormous shifts in individual and population health? The answer to such a question is a resounding and unequivocal ‘yes’. What, then, is “the problem”? The problem is this – that as medicine and healthcare have become increasingly more scientific, they have also become increasingly depersonalised, and in so many ways worryingly dehuumanised. What, then, to do?”

“In evaluating the candidates for the award of the Gold Medal for Excellence in Person Centered Care of the Society at the Fourth Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony held in Westminster UK on 26 & 27 October 2017 (which MOSAIC in fact won), it was clear to us that MOSAIC, as an institution, was not simply a standard home care organisation, but represented a great deal more than that. The Society had been particularly impressed by MOSAIC’S provision of an extensive range of services that focused on the wider emotional and social needs of the person that are far too numerous for us to list n the limited space available to us here. These services clearly addressed meaning, being and community within home care, so that no person becomes defined by the nature or extent of their illness, or by limiting factors such as what they can and cannot do for themselves. The Society had been particularly impressed with the sensitivity of MOSAIC’S model to the importance of community, the place of the person in that community, and what can be termed the wider dynamic that illustrates and encompasses the multifaceted dimensions of a person’s essence and being. Through such sensitivities and understandings, we saw that the MOSAIC model was able to deliver an entirely personalised support which provided a fundamentally humanistic care, and one that was integrated with medical and clinical intervention when and where necessary, so that an authentically client-centered care could be guaranteed.”


Stay tuned for Part 2 coming soon to our Mosaic’s Community Life Podcast – Life in Canada! Episode 12 Part 1 of 2