Are patients really ‘at the centre’ of integrated care?

Patient centred care

For some time now, the Government has been promoting its policy of ‘person-centred care’. In fact, the term was first introduced in the NHS Plan and other government policy documents in 2000. What is person-centred care? According to the Care Quality Commission (CQC), person-centred care is defined as ‘providers making every reasonable effort to provide […]