Compassionate healthcare can be challenging for practitioners to deliver day after day in a context of tight budgets and targets. This text compiles what we know about how healthcare professionals can look after themselves to order to maintain and develop their compassionate healthcare practice. It explores thinking around stress management, resilience, wellbeing and positivity, presenting and critiquing the evidence base for these key concepts. Illustrated with numerous case studies and examples, the authors conclude with their framework - RESPECT - for practice.