The prominence of the caring dimension has never had such a high profile in healthcare practice before. As a result of this, the Leadership in Compassionate Care Project has evolved. A unique feature is the partnership between Edinburgh Napier University and NHS Lothian. Engaging with and helping qualified and student nurses to value and promote the delivery of compassionate care is a primary f...

This comment on Professor Fotaki's Editorial agrees with her arguments that training health professionals in more compassionate, caring and ethically sound care will have little value unless the system in which they work changes. It argues that for system change to occur, senior management, government members and civil servants themselves need training so that they learn to understand the effec...

Centuries of settler-colonial capitalist hegemony have deeply embedded violent paradigms separation and hierarchy in our societal structures internalized ideologies, ultimately manifesting global climate justice crises. We argue, therefore, that addressing the socio-ecological catastrophes we currently face necessitates an inclusive engagement with a diversity ways knowing often overlooked or a...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To investigate the tension between individual and organisational responses to contemporary demands for compassionate interactions in health care. BACKGROUND Health care is often said to need more compassion among its practitioners. However, this represents a rather simplistic view of the issue, situating the problem with individual practitioners rather than focusing on the...

Compassionate care in nursing is increasingly an rnational concern. While the literature to date has ussed on redressing a compassion and care deficit oss the nursing discipline (Crawford et al., 2014; Dewar al., 2014; Scott, 2014), we suggest here that due sideration be given to its relationship to self-care and -compassion in nurses. After all, a deficit in these promises nurses’ therapeutic ...

Compassion is central to human wellbeing, benefiting those who give and receive it. Compassionate cultures in healthcare enhance staff learning innovation, reduce stress, absenteeism errors, leading improved patient outcomes. need collective, inclusive, compassionate leadership, good teamwork, design, a shift from the model of organisation as machine one living, complex system. Developing susta...

Compassionate health care is universally valued as a social and moral good to be upheld and sustained. Leadership is considered pivotal for enabling the development and preservation of compassionate health care organizations. Strategies for developing compassionate health care leadership in the complex, fast-moving world of today will require a paradigm shift from the prevalent dehumanizing mod...