Organisational & Cultural issues in the maintenance of Patient Safety
Research type
Research Study
Full title
WHAT ARE THE ORGANISATIONAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES THAT AFFECT THE MAINTENANCE OF SAFETY DURING THE MANAGEMENT OF HIGH SECURITY FORENSIC PATIENTS OUTSIDE OF THE HIGH SECURE SETTING.
IRAS ID
306395
Contact name
Stephen Timmons
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Nottingham
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
000, NA
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 29 days
Research summary
The study will look views of staff on the management of safety when undertaking leave of absence (LOA), which is when forensic patients are managed outside of the secure hospital setting. The relevance of this is that it is a high-risk situation, where the staff are under pressure, and face many additional risks, within an less controlled environment; yet despite this, these tasks rarely go wrong. As such, these situations provide a unique opportunity to look at factors involved when the maintenance of safety is going well, rather than looking at what went wrong after an accident as much research has done to date. The study is planned to be carried out at Broadmoor Hospital as this is a highly secure hospital which is considered a centre of excellence Staff are highly trained and experienced and within the hospital setting they control many aspects involving safety, which they cannot control on a LOA, which accentuates the safety aspects to be learn from in this study.
Data will be collected in the form of semi-structured interviews around the training, planning, experience and learning from LOAs and the wider shared and individual views on the maintenance of safety. Data will also be collected from observing meetings that discuss LOAs and from policies, procedures and incident report forms that relate to LOAs. Data will be collected between 03.01.22 and 31.12.22. All interview data will be anonymised so that it will not be identifiable to the subject. Patient identifiable data will not be collected, as the study is about safety management views and processes.
REC name
West Midlands - Black Country Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
21/WM/0281
Date of REC Opinion
24 Jan 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion