Top tips for success

This section pulls together learning and advice from our teams after completing their first experience of running the Patient and Family-Centred Care (PFCC) process.

Key drivers in achieving results

  • Executive sponsorship and organisational attention.
  • The engagement of doctors.
  • Support for and encouragement of the team (including the focus on staff experience) and team-working within the organisation.
  • Focus on driver diagrams, aims and measures.
  • Significant and unwavering emphasis on the importance of shadowing patients and understanding patients’ lived experiences
  • Strong focus on data and its usefulness for the team.
  • Having a sense of where you would like PFCC to sit in your organisation in the longer term.