Haverleigh Care home care support layers
Concentric circles slide with the patient at the core
A concentric circles slide places the most important thing at the centre and arranges everything else in rings by how close it sits to that core. This one plans home care at Haverleigh Care, a fictional provider, outward from the patient through family, carers, clinicians and community.
What is on the slide
- Title
- Care Around the Patient. Haverleigh Care plans home care outward from the patient. Each ring is judged by what it adds at home.
- Core
- Patient.
- Family
- Agree the weekly plan with the patient and get a call after every visit.
- Carers
- Same two carers each week, 14 hours of personal care and meals.
- Clinicians
- Nurse review monthly, GP and physio linked to one shared care plan.
- Community
- Day centre twice a week, transport and a volunteer phone friend.
When this is the right slide
Choose this slide when one person, asset or purpose sits at the centre and every other group is arranged by how close it is, with each ring given a commitment in the legend.
What to swap it for
Grouping: 3 Concentric Rings Hierarchy. Swap to the three concentric rings hierarchy when only three layers matter and each needs a larger label and more space than four rings allow.
What this slide shows
A title reads Care Around the Patient, with a framing line: Haverleigh Care plans home care outward from the patient, and each ring is judged by what it adds at home. On the left, a white disc labelled Patient sits inside four teal rings that grow lighter toward the edge, labelled Family, Carers, Clinicians and Community from the inside out. On the right, under the label Outward from the patient, four numbered rows give each ring its line. Family: agree the weekly plan with the patient and get a call after every visit. Carers: the same two carers each week, 14 hours of personal care and meals. Clinicians: nurse review monthly, with the GP and physio linked to one shared care plan. Community: a day centre twice a week, transport and a volunteer phone friend. The legend numbers run from 1 at the core outward to 4, matching the order of the rings.
When this is the right slide
Use it when one thing sits at the centre and everything else is arranged by distance from it: person centred care models, defence in depth security layers, a brand's purpose and its expressions, or a platform's core and its surface features. It works in service design workshops, funding bids and family information sessions, where the audience needs to see who is closest to the person or the asset. It is the wrong slide when the groups are equal partners with no centre, which a honeycomb shows better. It is the wrong slide for a process with steps in sequence, which needs a flow. When only three layers matter, a three ring hierarchy gives each one more space and larger labels.
How to adapt it
First, name the core and test it: every ring should be explainable as serving or protecting it. Second, order the rings by a single rule, such as frequency of contact or degree of access, and say what the rule is in the framing line or notes. Third, give each ring a commitment with a number or frequency in the legend. For a cyber security slide, the core might be customer data, then access control, endpoint protection, network monitoring and staff training on the outside. For a school, the core might be the student, then family, teachers, support staff and community programs. Keep the ring labels to one word so they fit inside the bands, and keep the legend in the same order as the rings, numbered from the centre, so that nobody has to work out which line belongs to which band. Revisit the commitments in the legend at each care plan review. Frequencies drift, a carer changes or a day centre closes, and a concentric slide that still promises the old pattern quietly misleads the family it was written for. A date in the footer section label makes the version obvious to anyone who picks it up later.
What makes this slide work
The core is a person, not a service
Patient sits in the white centre, and every ring is defined by its relationship to them. That framing changes how the plan is read: the carers ring is not the provider's main product, it is the second layer of support around someone. For a care audience, putting the person at the centre is both accurate and expected.
Rings run from closest to furthest
Family is the innermost ring, then carers, clinicians and community on the outside. The order reflects daily contact, from the people who are there every day to the services that are there twice a week. A reader can see at once who to call first, which is the practical question a care plan exists to answer.
The legend gives each ring a commitment
A call after every visit. The same two carers each week, 14 hours. A nurse review monthly. A day centre twice a week. Each ring's line is a service promise with a frequency, so the diagram doubles as a summary of the care plan. Families reading it can check each promise against what actually happens.
Questions people ask
What should sit at the core of a concentric circles slide?
The one thing every ring exists to serve or protect. For a care service it is the patient; for a security model it is the data; for a brand it might be the purpose. If the team cannot agree what the core is, the rings will be ordered by internal politics rather than by closeness, and the diagram will mislead.
How many rings can a concentric slide hold?
Three to four rings plus the core. This layout takes four, each with a label inside the ring and a sentence in the legend. More rings make the outer bands too thin to label and the inner ones too crowded. If there are five layers, combine the two outermost, or show the outer layers on a separate slide.
Why are the descriptions in a legend rather than on the rings?
Curved bands leave no room for sentences, and text bent around a circle is hard to read on a screen. The rings carry a one word label each, and the legend on the right gives each ring its line in the same order. The numbering in the legend runs from the core outward, matching the reading order of the rings.
When should a concentric slide be split?
When one ring needs a plan. The clinicians ring, with a monthly nurse review and a shared care plan, could carry a schedule and responsibilities of its own. Give it a slide after this one. The concentric view should stay an overview that shows how close each group is to the patient, not a rota.
Does the ring width mean anything?
Not in this layout; the rings are evenly spaced and show order, not size. If the audience needs to know how many hours or people sit in each ring, add the figure to the legend line, as the carers line does with 14 hours, or show a bar chart on the next slide. Avoid implying that a wider ring is a bigger contribution.
How should a concentric circles slide be presented?
Start at the core and move outward, one ring at a time, saying what that ring adds that the one inside it cannot. Family adds daily knowledge, carers add hands on support, clinicians add oversight, community adds connection. Ending at the outer ring leaves the audience with the widest view of the patient's support, which is the point.
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