Aims To understand nurses' perceptions of volunteer support in health care settings.
Background Increasingly, volunteers provide specialised support to health care service …

Background Patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care policy, service
decision‐making and research are presented as good practice in England. Yet the explicit …

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What does it mean
to love a healthcare system? It is often claimed that the UK population is unusually attached …

NHS support workers, such as nursing Healthcare Assistants, Maternity Support Workers,
and Therapy Assistants, often provide the majority of face-to-face care to patients, clients …

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the effectiveness of befriending for people with
intellectual disability and whether or not befriending improves depressive symptoms and …

Admission to an emergency department (ED) is challenging for older patients with cognitive
dysfunction (PWCD). Targeted patient-oriented approaches to improve the care for PWCD …

Volunteers are widely used to support patients with dementia or cognitive impairment on
acute hospital wards. However, it appears that traditional volunteer management models do …

Trained mealtime volunteers are ideally situated to provide mealtime assistance to older
patients in general hospital settings. Older patients are at risk of becoming undernourished …

Background: Fundamental aspects of patient experience have been reported as
substandard in emergency departments. Hospital volunteers can improve the patient …

Introducing a novel volunteer workforce to assist patients in hospital who require 1: 1
support has potential benefits, such as reducing expenditure on additional clinical staff and …