This research project will underpin future developments by NHS England to support NHS commissioners and providers to be ‘compassionate organisations’.
We want to know what all healthcare staff think a ‘compassionate healthcare organisation’ looks like. We will archive and analyse the ideas and visions shared by participants via Twitter. We will then share our findings with the healthcare, academic, commissioning and other communities in order to inform the development of compassionate healthcare organisations for the benefit of both staff and patients.
This research campaign is happening right now. We will be collecting all tweets with the hashtag #ShowsWorkplaceCompassion from the project launch date of 21 April 2016, focussing on the first month’s tweets.
It’s easy to take part. We just ask twitter users and healthcare staff to tweet their views about what activities, actions, policies, philosophies, approaches, demonstrate that a healthcare organisation is compassionate using the hashtag #ShowsWorkplaceCompassion.
Contributions – tweets – might be based on experiences of working in healthcare, experiences of providing or commissioning healthcare or general views about what healthcare organisations are about. There are no right or wrong ideas or perspectives, it is the ‘vision’ we are interested in.
We hope the team here at fabnhsstuff will see the value of this project as an innovative and new way to engage with and explore the NHS Staff experience. We also hope that you will share this project via your own channels so that as many people as possible can share their visions of what #ShowsWorkplaceCompassion. You can also follow the research campaign at: @NHSStaffExp