Exploring experience based co design in an acute mental health ward
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Exploring patient and staff experience of implementing experience based codesign to promote patient centred improvement in an acute mental health ward.
IRAS ID
144038
Contact name
Glenn Roberts
Contact email
Research summary
The project seeks to evaluate the experience of those participating in EBCD as a process to improve the experiences of both those providing and receiving health care in community mental health teams. The project is evaluating an approach called Experience Based Co Design(EBCD) which has been used previously in healthcare in the UK and Australia.
EBCD provides a unique opportunity for staff and patients to work together in redesigning healthcare services in order to improve patient and staff experiences of both delivering and receiving care. In EBCD, trained interviewers spend time understanding a service and interviewing local patients and staff to understand their perspectives, and then use edited films of the patient interviews to stimulate joint work between patients and staff to redesign services. In this project, the interviews and filming will be undertaken by a service user and carer forum, who have a particular interest in evaluating health care.
The study has two aims;
1)To evaluate the experience of participating in the EBCD process using interviews, a survey and focus groups for staff and patients, pre and post the EBCD intervention.
2)To evaluate whether an exploration of service users’ experience of receiving care in an adult community mental health team which informs the co-design of improvements to services, improves the quality of care.
REC name
East of England - Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/EE/1084
Date of REC Opinion
9 Sep 2014
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion