TY - JOUR ID - 2831 TI - Enabling Compassionate Health Care: Perils, Prospects and Perspectives JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Mannion, Russell AD - Health Services Management Center, University of Birmingham, UK Y1 - 2014 PY - 2014 VL - 2 IS - 3 SP - 115 EP - 117 KW - Compassion KW - Healthcare Quality KW - Emotional Labour DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2014.34 N2 - There is an emerging consensus that caring and compassion are under threat in the frenetic environment of modern healthcare. Enabling and sustaining compassionate care requires not only a focus on the needs of the patient, but also on those of the care giver. As such, threats and exhortations to health professionals are likely to have limited and perverse effects and it is to the organisational and system arrangements which support staff that attention should shift. Any approach to supporting compassionate care may work for some services, for some patients and staff, some of the time. No single approach is likely to be a panacea. Unravelling the contexts within which different approaches are effectual will allow for more selective development of support systems and interventions. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_2831.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_2831_681210e399e5eced59b8daf9c9cea8cd.pdf ER -