The Patient Revolution: How we revolt guide (June 2022)

Summary

This guide from The Patient Revolution aims to help healthcare activists contribute to an international movement for care. It summarises the foundations of The Patient Revolution's collective work towards the goal of careful and kind care for all. Underpinning these foundations is the idea that industrialised healthcare undermines compassionate, individualised care and costs more, both in terms of patient safety and financial cost.

The guide provides tools and principles to help activists transform the way care is offered and promote genuine patient-healthcare collaboration.

Content

Key themes covered in the guide include:

• The words we use
• Movement outcomes
• Where to start
• Common care
• Stewarding, recruiting and nurturing a care activist community
• Learning to elicit and tell stories
• Disseminating the message
• Creating environments for careful and kind care
• Applying careful and kind care principles to designing care services
• Partnering for careful an kind care