Hi Mary,
Yes - I know what you mean! The term used by the report in question is "person-centred care" and it is our remit to demonstrate that this is happening across all health -related programmes. I also prefer the term "woman-led care" in relation to midwifery, although I wonder whether we will ever make the rhetoric of this a reality. Still, we have to strive for it...
Kind regards,
Annabel Jay
Senior Lecturer and Research Lead (Midwifery)
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane
Hatfield
AL10 9AB
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This is great - thank you to Annabel and Mandie for this fascinating thread. Taking the discussion in a different direction - I have a few (fairly mild) qualms about the term (but not the concept) 'woman centred care'. It can, at worst, smack of surveillance, the woman under the spotlight, being viewed and inspected (and found wanting?) from all directions etc. - and I wonder about the possibility of renaming it 'woman led care' - making it clear that the woman is in charge, and this includes her right to abdicate responsibility to others, if she so chooses. Or maybe I am simply opening a semantic can of worms ...?
Mary
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From: A forum for discussion on midwifery and reproductive health research. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scamell, Mandie
Sent: 13 April 2015 09:01
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Subject: Re: Embedding person-centred care
Hi there,
I have just set up a virtual role-play for my undergrad. students at City University London which is centred around person-centred care. We have adapted the concept from a role-play model developed by CASS Business School at City and in particular the work of Clive Holtham. The role-play has been achieved using moodle groups, forums and folders. Students have the opportunity to play both the pregnant woman and the midwife. Each character has their own brief. The midwife's role is to offer woman centred care, the woman's role is to reflect on this care via an on-line reflective journal. Appointments are arranged using doodle scheduler and are conducted using adobe connect (this is great because the meetings are recorded and can be analysed in class to discuss person-centred care). The maternity notes are uploaded using the folder function and the woman's journal is done using a forum. Face-to-face tutorials provide students with the opportunity to reflect on the professional issues that arose during the role-play, out of character to consolidate their learning.
We are presenting this work at Bournemouth's 'Innovation in Midwifery Education, What Works?' conference in July this year. Happy to send you the presentation once it is written!
BW
Mandie
On 12 Apr 2015, at 13:01, Annabel Jay <[log in to unmask]>
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> I am a senior lecturer in Midwifery at the University of Hertfordshire. In response to the report of the Health Foundation entitled "Person-centred care: from ideas to action" (Ahmad et al 2014), we are seeking ways of ensuring that person-centred care is firmly embedded across all our health-related disciplines, including Midwifery. Naturally, everyone thinks they are doing this already (and most probably are), but this needs to be demonstrable to outsiders.
>
> I wonder if anyone at other Universities in the UK has had experience
> of this in their own workplace and would be willing to share ideas?
> if so, I would love to hear from you,
>
> Annabel Jay
>
> Senior lecturer and research lead (Midwifery) School of Health and
> Social Work University of Hertfordshire
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