A Dialogue about Person-centred Care between Brendan McCormack and Inger Ekman

Person-centred care has over the past few years gained in interest worldwide. Patients, health care professionals, politicians, health care organisations, the public and industry are interested in finding out more about what person-centred care means and what benefits it can bring.

Professors Brendan McCormack and Inger Ekman are well-known researchers in the field of person-centred care. Here they meet in a dialogue about the core of person-centred care and how it can be applied and implemented.

Participants:

Brendan McCormack, Professor, Associate Director, Centre for Person-centred Practice Research at Queen Margaret’s University, Edinburgh (QMU)

Inger Ekman, Professor, Director of The University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-centred Care (GPCC)

Joakim Öhlén, Professor, Sahlgrenska Academy, moderator

The professional titles and affiliations were correct when this was recorded.

The dialogue was filmed on 22 October 2018 at the Institute for Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, The University of Gothenburg.