The home of personalised care education
We’re equipping health and care professionals with the knowledge, skills and confidence to help patients get more involved in decisions about their care. Evidence shows this leads to better health outcomes and increased patient and clinician satisfaction.
The home of personalised care education
We’re equipping health and care professionals with the knowledge, skills and confidence to help patients get more involved in decisions about their care. Evidence shows this leads to better health outcomes and increased patient and clinician satisfaction.
Latest News from the PCI
Become a ‘PCI Plus’ subscriber
The Personalised Care Institute is the established home of personalised care education for health and care professionals.
Between 2021-2024, with funding from NHS England, we developed the curriculum for personalised care, which sets the quality standards that underpins all education curated, co-produced, endorsed and accredited by the PCI – currently over 100 courses, learning modules, resources and initiatives. All of this existing learning content will remain on our platform and will continue to be free to access for all.
Now an independent not-for-profit organisation, we remain committed to providing ongoing, relevant education and new ways to engage with our registered learners, whilst continuing to promote the importance of excellent personalised care, improving health outcomes and experiences for people.
As part of that commitment, the PCI has developed ‘PCI Plus’, a high quality CPD package that will provide health and care professionals with access to over 20 hours of quality assured CPD education between now and 31st March 2025.
To help ensure the ongoing sustainability of the PCI, PCI Plus is available for a one off cost of £60. This fee will help to cover some of the PCI’s overheads to deliver this package and support the ongoing costs of hosting, maintaining and managing the PCI’s learning platform.
The PCI Plus premium learning content subscription package will include:
- On demand access to the full recording and individual sessions of our flagship 2024 Annual Conference – ‘The Multimorbidity Challenge: a Personalised Care Approach’* which takes place virtually on Thursday 26th September
- On demand access to our full roadshow of webinars*, videos and educational activities, which will be running through Personalised Care Week in the lead up to our Annual Conference
- A six-strong webinar series* focused on utilising personalised care to support people with major conditions like cancers, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, dementia, mental ill health and musculoskeletal disorders, featuring MDT case studies and people with lived experience
- A multi-part webinar series on embedding personalised care within primary care teams
- On demand video access to the recordings of all live education delivered through PCI Plus, via a new portal that will be added to your registration
- The opportunity to join, create and engage in communities of practice through special interest groups, focused on condition or profession based personalised care and interventions around supporting self-management
- A dedicated newsletter highlighting new PCI Plus education and best practice examples of the use of personalised care
- The opportunity to input into consultations, think tanks and campaigns on the future direction of personalised care and the PCI
Sign up to PCI Plus now to achieve maximum benefit from the subscription for a one-off rate of £60!
Patients Included
The PCI is delighted to have achieved Patients Included status, which demonstrates a commitment to incorporating the experience of patients as experts in living with their condition while ensuring they are neither excluded or exploited.
Find out more about the Patients Included charter and click here for our statement on how the PCI has met the charters five clauses.
Learning
Take a free PCI course today. Our 30-60 minute courses are CPD recognised and suitable for all health and care professionals, at all career stages, levels of seniority, skill and knowledge. You can also find out more about our events, podcasts, resources and accredited training courses.
Accreditation
NHSE commissioners of personalised care training are now only procuring training that is PCI accredited. This is to ensure that all health and care professionals receive only high-quality, evidence based training that is linked to the PCI curriculum.
Partnerships
Collaboration is central to everything we do, which is why we are already working with more than 40 partner organisations. We would like to extend the breadth of our work across consultancy, research and international development.
The value of personalised care
The value of personalised care is demonstrated through growing evidence showing improvements in health outcomes, better adherence to medical advice and increased satisfaction for both patients and clinicians. PCI training allows health and care professionals to equip themselves with the knowledge and skills they need in order to deliver personalised care.
What is personalised care?
Personalised care gives patients more control and choice when it comes to the way their care is planned and delivered, taking into account individual needs, preferences and circumstances. Learn more about personalised care here.
Why is personalised care important?
Research shows that when patients have the opportunity to be involved in decision-making around personalised healthcare, there can be better outcomes and experiences and reduced health inequalities. Find out more here.
The new personalised care roles
As part of the NHS Long Term Plan to deliver personalised care, a series of specialist roles have been created to help people access the support and advice they need. View them here.
Blog
This is a guest blog from Gemma Jolly, Head of Health and Wellbeing at the Reading Agency, on the charity’s ‘Reading Well Programme’. This programme is a national ‘Books on Prescription’ scheme, which provides people with recommended reading material to help them understand and manage their health and wellbeing.
Blog
This is a guest blog from Professor Fraser Birrell, Honorary of Lifestyle Medicine & Innovation, Newcastle University, Editor-in-Chief of Lifestyle Medicine, and Director of Science & Research, British Society of Lifestyle Medicine. In the blog, Fraser discusses the power of virtual group consultations to support the delivery of personalised care and some upcoming initiatives around offering virtual group consultations across the NHS.
Newsroom
Half of health and care professionals have seen an increase over the last six months in the number of patients presenting with conditions potentially caused or exacerbated by money worries – but nine in 10 (88%) don’t feel equipped to have financial conversations, according to new research.
Blog
This is a guest blog by the Right to Smile Consensus, which is taking action to improve the oral health of people who experience severe mental ill health. The blog was co-authored by the following people: Dr Vishal Aggarwal, Dr Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Gordon Johnston and David Shiers.
