SELFIE
Research type
Research Study
Full title
SELFIE (Sustainable intEgrated care modeLs for multi-morbidity: delivery, FInancing and performancE)
IRAS ID
208029
Contact name
Matthew Sutton
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Manchester
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 3 months, 12 days
Research summary
Over 50 million people in Europe have more than one chronic disease. This number will increase dramatically in the near future. This will increase health care spending to a staggering 20% of gross domestic product (GDP). Multi-morbidity (2 or more chronic conditions) becomes the number one threat to population health and economic sustainability of health care systems. New models of care for multi-morbid patients are urgently needed. Given the diversity of Europe’s health and social care systems there is no single model that fits them all.
SELFIE is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project. It aims to improve patient-centred care for patients with multi-morbidity by proposing evidence-based, economically sustainable integrated chronic care (ICC) models that stimulate cooperation across health and social care sectors and are supported by appropriate financing/payment schemes. SELFIE specifically focuses on multi-morbidity, on generating empirical evidence of the impact of ICC and on financing/payment schemes.
This ethics application pertains to two Work Packages (WPs) of SELFIE (WP2 & WP4).
Each of the 8 selected EU countries involved in SELFIE will contribute to WP2 by evaluating the enablers and barriers of two promising ICC sites qualitatively in their own country. Each country will create an anonymised report from their findings, and these reports will be assimilated by the Austrian team, identifying generalised learning across the countries.
In the UK, we will conduct qualitative interviews with a selection of stakeholders (programme managers/healthcare professionals/patients/informal caregivers) in each of the two sites identified. This will be combined with programme-specific document analysis to provide a descriptive analysis of the two UK-based ICC programmes with a special focus on how the process of care delivery is designed and how it is supported by information and communications technology (ICT) applications, self-management, and new professional roles in best practices.
Each of the 8 selected EU countries involved in SELFIE will contribute to WP4 by holding a focus group with a small group (6 to 8) of multi-morbid patients in their local area. The objective of this focus group is to identify what outcomes are most important to multi-morbid patients when it comes to health and care.
Both of these WPs will feed in to the shared learning, and to the improvement of integrated care programmes for multi-morbid patients across Europe.
REC name
West Midlands - South Birmingham Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/WM/0295
Date of REC Opinion
23 Jun 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion