Prof Jeffrey Braithwaite: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Professor studying health systems at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia
- Quoted on
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“The danger is that empathy becomes another slogan on a poster or another online training module. The real gains will come when NHS trusts redesign clinical work itself. This means staffing, workload, teamwork, psychological safety and responsiveness to patients. Wouldn't that make empathy more likely rather than merely hoped for?”
Where Prof Jeffrey Braithwaite has been quoted
- Hospitals in England ranking highly for empathy ‘have better patient outcomes’theguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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