Embedding the patient.
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Embedding the patient during a service improvement programme in a healthcare system. Making beds in the NHS
IRAS ID
227432
Contact name
Thomas Thompson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Chichester
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 31 days
Research summary
The research will examine how patients participate in a service improvement programme during its implementation in an NHS Trust. This means how a patient and the activities of a service improvement programme interact on a day to day basis. The research will employ an ethnographic approach to collect data on the range of decisions a patient can make and how patients participate, or otherwise, in the service improvement programme. This relationship will be explored by studying members of the trust (employees, patients, friends, family members and carers) in their everyday settings, doing ordinary activity. The researcher will participate directly in the Trust setting, to collect data unobtrusively, without influencing the way people participate in their activities. The research will investigate an NHS Trust’s service improvement programme in order to unearth possible policies and procedures which put the patient first and drive greater patient participation, in line with the Trust’s stated aims. The research is in response to calls from health organizations such as the Kings Fund (2011) for a review of how the obligations, requirements, demands and aims of the NHS are affected by a ‘growing population, an ageing population, and a sicker population’ (NHS England, 2014, p. 6). Against the backdrop of increased pressure on an NHS system that has not received sufficient funding in recent years (Powell, 2016).
REC name
London - Camden & Kings Cross Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/LO/2126
Date of REC Opinion
18 Dec 2017
REC opinion
Unfavourable Opinion