The intertwined relationship between patient care and staff well-being has been likened to the double helix. And so the stories we tell each other are like the DNA of care, transmitting information and shaping cultures, offering learning opportunities and, sometimes, healing.
There is often a cost to gathering these stories, but…
NHS England is funding five free workshops for staff to create their own digital stories about working in healthcare. Your story will be used to help other people understand the reality of working in healthcare so we may all learn from experiences, both good and bad; sharing our stories in this way helps contribute to healthcare that is safer, more dignified, more humane and more compassionate for everyone.
Patient Voices (www.patientvoices.org.uk) are looking for stories about:
• critical incidents and never-events
• clinicians in distress (wounded healers)
• staff who are also carers
• leading change across boundaries
• compassion.
You will spend three days developing and refining a script, recording a voiceover, selecting images and editing your own short video.
Once complete, your story will be available via the Patient Voices website and accessible via The Academy of FabNHSStuff. Whatever your role in the NHS, whether surgeon or security guard, nurse or nutritionist, come and share with us, your colleagues and your peers your stories of experience and aspiration.
Workshops will take place near Cambridge, England in the first few months of 2016. To find out more, please contact:
Pip Hardy: 07721 751784 or [email protected]
Tony Sumner: 07979 818652 or t[email protected]