Introducing yourself to patients: what’s the right and wrong way?

Ten years on from the #hellomynameis campaign, we explore nurses’ power to promote patient dignity and person-centred care by using five simple words

• The late Dr Kate Granger’s experience as a hospital inpatient sparked a social media campaign that would become a worldwide phenomenon
• It inspired spin-off campaigns to transform how healthcare staff communicate with patients and acknowledge them as people
• Read advice on how you can transform your patient’s experience of care from your first interaction with them

It is seven years since #hellomynameis campaigner Kate Granger died, but as the campaign for a friendlier health service that she instigated ten years ago continues to thrive, her widower believes she is