Dewing, JanMcCormack, Brendan2017-09-262017-09Dewing, J. & McCormack, B. 2017, 'Editorial: Tell me, how do you define person-centredness?', Journal of Clinical Nursing, vol. 26, no. 17-18, pp. 2509-2510.0962-1067 (print)1365-2702 (online)10.1111/jocn.13681http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62512The International Community of Practice for Person-centred Practice (PCP-ICoP) coordinated from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, recently wrote about the current state of person-centredness across several countries in the world (McCormack et al. 2015). In that publication, we highlighted a number of concerns, the existence of which are working against the advancement of person-centredness as a coherent theoretically informed and practice-embedded framework for nursing. We believe that a focus on person-centredness provides an opportunity for nursing to rise above particular theoretical ‘fan clubs’ and work within a coherent set of principles that are multivariate, context nonspecific and trans-specialist.en© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article : 'Editorial: Tell me, how do you define person-centredness?', Journal of Clinical Nursing, vol. 26, no. 17-18, pp. 2509-2510, 2017, doi : 10.1111/jocn.13681. The definite version is available at : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2702.Person-centrednessPostprint Article