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• rson-centredness, underpinned by robust philosophical and theoretical concepts, has an increasingly solid footprint in policy and practice, but research and education lag behind.
• In recent years, there has been a shift in orientation towards person-centredness as part of a global move towards humanising and centralising the person within healthcare.
• There is a global evidence base showing the benefits of this approach to healthcare delivery at individual, unit and systems levels.
• Person-centredness is an important pillar of high-quality healthcare (Institute of Medicine, 2001) and has a solid theoretical base with distinct principles, methodologies and measurement approaches (van Dulmen et al., 2017). Furthermore, it has been linked to staff wellbeing and job satisfaction (van der Meer et al., 2018), as well as improved sta...
• The move from biomedical approaches towards those broadly termed as psycho-social is significant in contemporary healthcare. Historically, healthcare professionals underwent theoretical and practical training to provide traditional knowledge, skills and competencies that validated their respective qualifications, but were generally focused on provi...

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