(1) Aims to achieve person-centred and evidence based care that is manifested through human flourishing and a workplace culture of effectiveness in all healthcare settings and situations
(2) Directs attention at the micro-systems level—the level at which most healthcare is experienced and provided, but ensures coherent support from interrelated mezzo and macro-systems levels
(3) Integrates work-based learning with its focus on active learning and formal systems for enabling learning in the workplace
(4) Integrates and enables both the development of evidence from practice and the use of evidence in practice
(5) Integrates creativity with cognition in order to blend differing energies, enabling practitioners to free their thinking and allow opportunities for human flourishing to emerge
(6) A complex methodology that can be used across health care teams and interfaces to involve all internal and external stakeholders
(7) Uses key methods consistent with the methodological principles being operationalised and the contextual characteristics of the PD programme of work
(8) Utilises a set of processes including skilled facilitation that can be translated into a specific skill-set required as near to the interface of care as possible
(9) Integrates evaluation approaches that are always inclusive, participative and collaborative
