An investigation into patients’ journey in an Intermediate Care service
Research type
Research Study
Full title
An investigation into patients’ journey in an Intermediate Care service
IRAS ID
169757
Contact name
Ashley Matthews
Contact email
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 2 months, 1 days
Research summary
The focus of this project is to map the patient journey from referral to discharge and integration back into the community following a spell of bed based rehabilitation and what impact it might have had on them either functionally and/or their activity of daily lives . The service user and/or their carers should be the main beneficiary of the service. However, the perception among our Therapy staff in particular, is that Intermediate Care services such as us are not service-user driven. It is to this extent that this project would explore a personal outcomes approach to the patient journey. This would assist organisational service development, as well as highlighting recent government policies such as personalisation and enablement agendas, among others.
REC name
London - Brighton & Sussex Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/LO/0936
Date of REC Opinion
28 Jun 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion