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PD as a formal methodology has been driven by nursing and midwifery across all its specialisms, but is increasingly embraced by other health and social care professionals. One of the eight revised principles of PD emphasises its increasing relevance to all:

PD is fundamentally about person‐centred practice that promotes safe and effective workplace culture where all can flourish.

Chapter 8 discusses this principle together with seven others underpinning PD methodology.

This edition of the book marks a groundswell of involvement in PD, with many other professions globally experiencing its relevance. The International Practice Development Journal, a peer‐review publication launched in 2011, has been instrumental in championing the uptake of PD concepts by different professional groups, further enabling interprofessional practice, and also disseminating its growing evidence base.

Contributions have embraced interdisciplinary and medical leadership programmes to support transformation (Akhtar et al. 2016), physiotherapists using person‐centred frameworks when caring for people with long‐term conditions (Dukhu et al. 2018), a biomedical scientist focusing on their own learning (Jackson 2013), an obstetrician and maternity team preparing for maternity transformation (Crowe and Manley 2019), a United Church minister reflecting on learning about self (Eldridge 2011), a physiotherapist reflecting on transformative learning (Owen 2016), an anaesthetist reflecting on transforming self as a leader (Adegoke 2017), an intensivist exploring the relevance of PD to quality improvement (Lavery 2016), allied health professionals drawing on PD principles (Bradd et al. 2017), therapists supporting mental health and family wellbeing (Karlsson et al. 2013), and social workers in the care of older people (Cronqvist and Sundh 2013).

Interprofessional practice is a much stronger focus of publications, with the journal publishing special issues from a range of professions that critically examine concepts relevant for the tradition of PD, for example a Special Issue on Person, Care and Aging (Øye et al. 2020).

Whilst PD has become more interprofessional, it has also experienced expansion on other fronts endorsed by its growing theoretical insights and research, with increasing numbers of postgraduate students undertaking research into PD and person‐centred practice, applied to a changing world. For example, PD has influenced system‐wide approaches, providing the foundation for 1) the state‐wide Essentials of Care programme across New South Wales, now embedded in practice (NSW 2014), and 2) state strategy for education and training (see Chapter 14). In the UK, PD methodology combined with action‐orientated research approaches and realist evaluation (with which it has a strong affinity) has informed systems thinking for workforce transformation and systems leadership (Manley et al. 2016; Manley and Jackson 2020), insights into the development of safety culture (Manley et al. 2019), and multiprofessional continuous professional development (Manley et al. 2018).