Relationship centred health care:
Relationship-centred health care focuses on relationships as central to the provision of quality health care. It is premised on the understanding that all interactions are informed by a fundamental commitment to mutual respect, self-awareness, humility, openness, and caring. Relationships can exist on many levels such as those between: practitioners and patients, patient to patient, practitioners and their practice communities, professionals, administrators and managers.
Essential to the establishment of relationship-centred health care are:
critical self-reflection to enhance self-awareness;
employing a caring, healing ethic that preserves the dignity and integrity of the patient;
elimination of power abuses or inequalities; and
encouraging active patient/family collaboration
(http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/cefm/rcc.htm)