Developing and testing a co-designed patient safety guide: pilot study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Developing and testing a co-designed patient safety guide to improve patient safety in primary care: a mixed methods pilot study
IRAS ID
261685
Contact name
Rebecca Morris
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
The University of Manchester
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 3 months, 2 days
Research summary
A key challenge in an increasingly complex health and social care is how to keep patients safe. As most peoples' contacts with the NHS are with primary care this offers an opportunity to improve patient safety by involved them directly in anticipating, preventing and reducing errors. We have co-developed a guide for patients and carers about patient safety with patients, carers and healthcare professionals, which aims to provide information that makes patients and carers contacts with general practice and primary care safer.
This study will pilot the use of the primary care patient safety guide package (which includes a paper version, web-site and a 'App' developed for mobile phones) in the development phase of the study. This study will help understand the views of people using them and test whether they could be a suitable intervention to improve safety within primary care.
The study comprises two piloting 'rounds'. Initially two general practices will be recruited, with staff attending a workshop about how to use the guide with patients and carers. 15 patients and/or carers who attend their practice at least every three months will be sent postal invitations by the practice to take part in this study. Patients will be asked to complete questionnaires at the start of the study, then receive the patient safety guide and complete further questionnaires six months later. The acceptability of the guide package will be explored with patients,carers and general practice staff in qualitative interviews and used to further refine elements of the safety guide package. Round 1 will help refine the number of patients who require invitation to generate 15 consented participants.
A second round of six further practices will then pilot the materials in the same way after adaptations have been made from feedback obtained following the pilot in the initial two practices.REC name
London - West London & GTAC Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/LO/1289
Date of REC Opinion
14 Aug 2019
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion