Table 1 The extended South West Peninsula Collaboration for Applied Health Research and Care definition of person-centred coordinated care (P3C)

Person-centred care

The co-creation of care between the patient, their family and informal carers, and health professionals. This definition is becoming widely used by many international organisations and WHO [58,59,60,61], and has been translated into a proven approach and used at the Gothenburg University Centre for Person Centred Care. Person-centred care strives to see an individual as bio-psycho-social whole, as a person and not a disease or a collection of conditions.

Capabilities and resources of the person and their wider social context

Psycho-social and environmental resources that are non-clinical and have a community focus. This is commonly being referred to as ‘community-centred approaches’ that complement other types ofinterventions that focus more on individual care and behaviour change, or on developing sustainable environments. These approaches acknowledge the importance of social capital for health and wellbeingto flourish, and acknowledging people as having capabilities and resources [62].

Coordinated care

Care coordination is the deliberate combining, in the necessary forms and sequence, of patient care activities by three or more participants (including the patient) so as to deliver the healthcare chosen for the patient [63]. From a person or family perspective, care coordination is any co-operative activity that helps ensure that the individual’s needs and preferences for health services are met, with effective information sharing across people, work-groups, organisations, and sites over time [63].