Patient, carer and clinician experience of routine blood testing
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Understanding cancer patient, carer and clinician experience of routine blood testing to co-design a home-based monitoring system.
IRAS ID
228778
Contact name
Susana Banerjee
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
This study is part of an academic collaboration between Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Entia Ltd, University of Oxford and Imperial College Health Partners. It is funded by a Biomedical Catalyst Early Stage Award from Innovate UK. It is a focus group interview study aimed to help guide the development of a world-first home-based full blood count monitoring system to optimise the delivery of systemic cancer therapy.
Entia Ltd is a company supported by Imperial College Health Partners and has been established by young entrepreneurs with an academic background. This handheld device will perform a full blood count from a single drop of blood. An additional feature of the device will be the ability to provide body temperature results and the potential to connect device data to the hospital Information Technology system for real-time access to results. In order to ensure user-friendly design that meets patient, carer and clinician needs, we propose to develop the device using a co-design model. The co-design model prioritises the patient’s experience in addition to more traditional clinical and health economic outcomes. Patients and their carers, along with healthcare professionals and innovators, are all active partners in this design process (Bate and Robert, 2006). The present study forms the first stage of the design process, which is gathering evidence of experience from patients, carers, healthcare professionals and experts within the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. Four focus group interviews will be conducted across both hospital sites in Chelsea and Sutton. Two focus groups will involve patients and carers and two will involve healthcare professionals.
REC name
South Central - Oxford B Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/SC/0437
Date of REC Opinion
5 Sep 2017
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion