Co-producing cancer services (Version 1)

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Facilitating the implementation of cancer services: co-designing an implementation intervention for subsequent testing

• IRAS ID

  172948

• Contact name

  Gemma E Prebble

• Contact email

  g.prebble@bangor.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  School of Healthcare Sciences

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 3 months, 0 days

• Research summary

  The cancer story in Wales is changing, as more than 27,000 people in North Wales are currently living with and beyond cancer. In cancer, a person is considered to be a survivor from the time of diagnosis until the end of life. Although survival rates for cancer are improving, for many people and families there are enduring consequences of cancer and its treatment. Living with these is much like living with any long term condition. It is now recognised that new models of care to support the needs of people living with and beyond cancer in North Wales are required. These services should co-produced with services users and staff in a prudent, sustainable way to accommodate the increasing numbers of cancer survivors in the future.

  Using an established methodology (Experience-based Co-design). In this co-production project we will:
  • Identify the experiences of survivorship of people living with cancer, exploring how the ambitions of health policy around survivorship might best be met
  • Explore the experiences and perspectives of professional stakeholder groups (i.e. clinical staff and service managers) in delivering survivorship in clinical practice
  • Co-design an implementation programme (including strategy, interventions and tools) that addresses common ambitions for cancer survivorship

  Initially up to 12 service users,currently receiving treatment in the cancer service or recalled to cancer service for out patient follow up, will be invited to participate in a workshop which explores their experiences of survivorship in different ways. Up to 10 Clinical Nurse Specialists from across a cancer service will then be invited to participate in a similar workshop exploring survivorship from a professional perspective.
  We will then explore differences and similarities in perspectives in a co-design workshop involving both participant groups. The outputs of this will be the elements of a facilitation intervention to support implementation of survivorship within cancer services.

• REC name

  Wales REC 5

• REC reference

  16/WA/0210

• Date of REC Opinion

  12 Aug 2016

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion