6 | SHOW A LITTLE COMPASSION Compassionate care is crucial for the wellbeing of staff and patients across the UK’s National Health Service. Drawing on more than 40 years’ experience working in the healthcare sector, Professor Michael West explains the problems of inequity across the system, the importance of staff engagement, the need to move on from a command and control structure – and why the NHS is in the worst state he has seen it.
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