Health Practitioners and the Directive Towards Compassionate Healthcare in the UK: Exploring the Need to Educate Health Practitioners on How to be Self-Compassionate and Mindful Alongside Mandating Compassion Towards Patients

Concerns have been periodically raised about care that lacks compassion in health care settings. The resulting demands for an increase in consistent compassionate care for patients have frequently failed to acknowledge the potentially detrimental implications for health care professionals including...

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Main Authors: Helen Egan, Michail Mantzios, Craig Jackson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-12-01
Series:Health Professions Education
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452301116300657