Schwartz Center Rounds®

We are looking for hospitals, trusts and hospices that would like to establish the Schwartz Center Rounds® in their organisations.

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Developed by The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, the Rounds support staff to provide compassionate care.

We have piloted Rounds at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust and at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Our evaluation of both UK pilots suggested that the success the Rounds have had in the US can be replicated in the UK. With this evidence we are currently running Schwartz Center Rounds® at four NHS trusts in the UK, with three more to join in the autumn.  

• Supporting hospital staff to provide compassionate care: Do Schwartz Center Rounds work in English hospitals? Joanna Goodrich, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, March 2012
• Schwartz scheme boosting staff morale in NHS The Guardian, 17 February 2012 
• Sharing the stresses of becoming a doctor The New York Times, September 15 2011
• Supporting staff to deliver compassionate care using Schwartz Center Rounds Nursing Times, 5 February 2010 

We’ve interviewed hospital staff about the benefits of attending Schwartz Center Rounds® to discuss together the difficult social and emotional issues which arise in day to day patient care.

Listen to the interviews

Barbara Wren, Facilitator of Schwartz Center Rounds® at The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, explains how the Rounds work, who presents them and the topics that are discussed.

Watch the interview

Marjorie Stanzler, Director of Programs at The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, Boston, talks about the programme and the pilot Rounds taking place in England.

Listen to her audio