1 Communicating good care: a qualitative study of what people with urological cancer value in interactions with clinicians. Skea ZC, Entwistle VA, MacLennan SJ, N'Dow J. This is the authors' final version, post peer-review, of an article published in Eur J Oncol Nurs 2013;doi.org/10.1016/j.ejon.2013.09.009.The definitive version is available from http://www.sciencedirect.com Introduction Communication between health care providers and patients is essential for good quality care in several senses. Communication has many facets, can take diverse forms and serve multiple purposes. In the context of cancer care, communication with health care providers can be important to help meet patients’ needs for information and other forms of support and can influence a range of cancer care outcomes both positively (e.g. Clayton et al., 2005; Fogarty et al., 1999; Kim et al., 2004; Neumann et al., 2007; Roberts et al., 2005; Schofield et al., 2003; Schneider et al., 2004) and negatively (Thorne et al., 2008), impacting for example on treatment adherence (Roberts et al., 2005; Schneider et al., 2004;), patient anxiety and depression (Fogarty et al., 1999; Schofield et al., 2003), and patient satisfaction (Kim et al., 2004). A small but growing body of evidence suggests that communication with health care providers can significantly affect the extent to which patients feel cared for, respected and involved (Burkitt-Wright et al., 2004; Fosbmder 1994; Kruijver 2000; Step et al., 2009; Thom 2000; Burkitt-Wright 2004;). These latter studies can be interpreted as suggesting that patients seem to value communication at least in part because of what it signals about healthcare providers’ attitudes towards them, and thus about the interpersonal aspects of healthcare provider-patient relationships. They point to the significance of what has been referred to as health professionals ‘seeing the person in the patient’ (Goodrich and Cornwell, 2008) or treating patients ‘as persons’ (Entwistle and Watt, 2013). Good communication can therefore be valued both in its own right as a key element of patient-centred healthcare