The lists below are my publications, articles, blogs and podcasts to give you a sense of the sorts of things I have been working on over the years. What they don’t give you is a sense of the relationships that have been forged as I worked, which is probably the aspect of the work which mean the most.
Publications
Audit Commission. Transforming primary care. The role of primary care trusts in shaping and supporting general practice. London, Audit Commission, 2003
Audit Commission, Testing Times. A review of diabetes services in England and Wales, 2000.
Audit Commission, first class delivery. A review of maternity services in England and Wales. 1997
Audit Commission Seen But not Heard: Coordinating Community Child Health and Social Services for Children in Need. London, audit Commission 1994.
Beech R , Brough RL and Fitzsimons BA . The Development of a Decision-Support System for Planning Services within Hospitals. The Journal of the Operational Research Society Vol. 41, No. 11 (Nov., 1990), pp. 995-1006.
Beech R and Fitzsimons B. The Application of a Decision-Support System for Planning Services within Hospitals. The Journal of the Operational Research Society. Vol. 41, No. 12 (Dec., 1990), pp. 1089-1094
Boaz A, Fitzsimons B, Meakin B, et al (2023).Do Research–Practice Partnerships Offer a Promising Approach to Producing Research that Improves Social Care Practice and Outcomes? Journal of Long-Term Care, (2023), pp. 241–248. DOI: https:// doi.org/10.31389/jltc.190
Commission for Health Improvement. Clinical Governance review of Chesterfield Royal Hospital, 2001.
Cornwell J and Fitzsimons B (2017). Behind Closed Doors. London, Point of Care Foundation
Fitzsimons B. Patient and Family Centred Care – final report. The Health Foundation, 4 June 2014. http://www.health.org.uk/sites/default/files/PFCC_finalreport.pdf
Fitzsimons B – Patient and Family Centred Care: Spreading the capability to improve patients’ and carers’ experience of end of life care in one NHS region using a collaborative peer-to-peer method. Final report. The Health Foundation. 14 May 2018.
Fitzsimons B. The challenges of using feedback from patients to inform design. Journal of Health Design 2018, JHD. 2018;3(2):124–123. https://doi.org/10.21853/JHD.2018.59
Fitzsimons B – Case studies in PFCC Innovation Center, Supporting Patient and Family Centered Care Community of Practice, 2014 year in review. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh PA.
Fitzsimons B. First Class delivery. A review of the Audit Commission’s report into maternity Services. British Journal of Midwifery. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjom.1997.5.7.388
Fitzsimons B. Careful consultation with nurses is vital when introducing rounds. Nursing Times. 12/2012; 108(44):7.
Fitzsimons B, Implementing Francis: lessons from Patient and Family-centred Care. The Health Foundation / the King’s Fund 22nd Feb 2013. http://www.health.org.uk/blog/implementing-francis-lessons-patient-and-family-centred-care / http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/articles/implementing-francis-lessons-patient-and-family-centred-care
Fitzsimons B . (2023) Careful, kind care is our compass out of the pandemic fog – rapid response https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-073444/rapid-responses
Fitzsimons B. (2022) Improving leadership should include support for leaders’ wellbeing. BMJ 2022; 378 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o1650
Fitzsimons B (2022) Voices and stories are central to improving healthcare BMJ 2022; 376 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o114
Fitzsimons B (2023). Getting off the production line. Journal of the British Orthopaedic Association.
Fitzsimons B and Byrne L. Listen and learn: Patient experiences hold the key to better care. HSJ, 10 September, 2014.
Fitzsimons B and Cornwell J. What can we learn from patients’ perspectives on the quality and safety of hospital care? BMJ quality and safety online first. 5 April 2018 as 10.1136/bmjqs-2018-008106. http://d x.d oi.o rg/1 0.1 136/bmjqs- 2017- 006974
Fitzsimons B, Bartley A, Cornwell J. Intentional rounding: its role in supporting essential care. Nursing times 01/2011; 107(27):18-21.
Fitzsimons B, Goodrich J, Bennett L and Buck D (2014). Evaluation of King’s College Hospital Volunteering service Final report for KCH– 23rd April 2014. http://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/kings_fund_evaluation_of_kch_impact_volunteering.pdf
Fitzsimons B, Hide E and Withers T. Staff and patients: improving networked care. Moorfield eye hospital NHS FT single specialty provider Vanguard. 24 May 2018. https://www.pointofcarefoundation.org.uk/evidence/staff-and-patients-improving-networked-care/
Fitzsimons B and Wright K. Hospital Pathways Programme learning report. The Health Foundation, 20 December 2012. http://www.health.org.uk/sites/default/files/Learning%20from%20Hospital%20Pathways%20programme%20December%202012.pdf
Foot C and Fitzsimons B. The policy and practice of measuring patient experience. Nursing management 06/2011; 18(3):18-9.
Foot C, Sonola L, Bennett L, Fitzsimons B, Raleigh V, Gregory S. Managing quality in community services. The King’s Fund, 4 Dec 2014
Garcia J, Fitzsimons B, and Redshaw M, First Class Delivery: a national survey of women’s views of maternity care, 1998, Audit Commission, London.
Goodrich J, Fitzsimons B (2018) Capturing patient experience. Nursing Standard. doi: 10.7748/ns.2018.e11177
Healthcare Commission (2008). Independent Sector Treatment Centres: The evidence so far. London: Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection.
Healthcare Commission (2007). Independent Sector Treatment Centres: A review of the quality of care. London: Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection.
Healthcare Commission. Clearing the air: A national study of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. London: Healthcare Commission; 2006
Holland WW and Fitzsimons B. Smoking in children. Arch Dis Child. 1991 Nov; 66(11): 1269–1270. PMCID: PMC1793296
Holland WW and Fitzsimons B. Back to the future – public health research into the next century. Journal of Public Health 1994, London, Faculty of Public health Medicine.
Holland WW, Detels R, and Knox G. (1991) Oxford Textbook of Public Health 2nd edn. Oxford, OUP. Editorial Assistant B Fitzsimons.
Macdonald AS, Fitzsimons B, Stockley N and Kuberska K (2023). Co-designing high-level design principles for a visual identification system for people with dementia in acute hospital ward settings. BMJ Quality and Safety. BMJ Open 13(5):e069352. 13(5):e069352. DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069352
Maclellan J, Ade M, Fitzsimons B et al (2024). Women’s experience of intermittent auscultation fetal monitoring in labour: a qualitative study. Women and Birth (In press).
Myers R, Fontaine N and Fitzsimons B (2021). Do Schwartz Rounds support senior leaders to reflect on their practice. https://www.nursingtimes.net/roles/nurse-managers/do-schwartz-rounds-support-senior-leaders-to-reflect-on-their-practice-15-03-2021/
Ross S and Fitzsimons B. Final report of the evaluation of the process of change in the Older People’s Programme (Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care [SLIC]). An independent report from The King’s Fund 6th October 2015. http://slicare.org/system/documents/files/000/000/061/original/Final_report_of_the_evaluation_of_the_process_of_change_in_the_Older_People_061015.pdf?1455018791
Withey CH et al, Respiratory effects of lowering tar and nicotine levels of cigarettes smoked by young male middle tar smokers. II. Results of a randomised controlled trial. J Epidemiol Community Health 1992;46:281-285 doi:10.1136/jech.46.3.281
Withey CH et al. Respiratory effects of lowering tar and nicotine levels of cigarettes smoked by young male middle tar smokers. I. Design of a randomised controlled trial. J Epidemiol Community Health 1992;46:274-280 doi:10.1136/jech.46.3.274
Swan AV, Melia RJ, and Fitzsimons B. Why do more girls than boys smoke cigarettes? Health Education Journal 1988, vol 48, no.2, 59-64
Quality improvement programmes
Foundations in patients’ experience – and bespoke Foundations course for multiple clients 2018-22
Vermont Oxford Network – Experience based co-design in neo-natal units. 2018 – 2022
North East Essex leadership development programme – Jointly with King’s Fund leadership development team. November 2018.
Sweeney programme – patient-centred improvement collaborative 2018-2020
Experience based co-design – 2015- 22
CIHRT – Sweeney programme in women’s reproductive health. Addis Ababa (December 2017).
Sweeney programme – patient centred quality improvement. University hospital of Oslo, – drug and alcohol services (January 2018).
Guy’s Cancer Centre – working with staff and patients to design better care – GI cancer pathway (November 2017).
Moorfields Networked Care Vanguard programme (6 sites) (October 2017)
Royal Free London NHS Trust, clinical pathway re-design (patient co-design) (September 2017) – 10 workshops.
Basildon University Hospital – Advanced / train the trainers. Patient centred quality improvement (4 workshops) – April 2017.
The Change Foundation Toronto, patient centred quality improvement (March 2017).
Staff resilience. Interhealth. January 2017.
Living well to the very end – patient and family centred care. Programme working with 27 teams / 6 events during 2017 / 2018.
Blogs (2021 – 23)
Working with people and communities (Oct 2022)
Improving leadership should include support for leaders wellbeing (July 2022)
Listen, listen, then listen some more (April 2022)
Voices and stories are central to improving healthcare (Feb 2022)
New Year, New programme, same goal (Jan 2022)
Celebrating the Human Faces of Healthcare (Dec 2021)
#reflect2repair – improving access to reflective practice for health and care staff (November 2021).
An open letter to Amanda Pritchard (Sept 21)
Imagine a humanised healthcare system. (May 2021)
National Voices (2021). Letter to the Prime Minister.
Podcasts – visit at https://www.pointofcarefoundation.org.uk/the-humanising-health-care-podcast/
- Humanising Healthcare Podcast 2021 – series 1 (6 episodes)
- Humanising Healthcare Podcast 2022 – series 2 (6 episodes)