The LPZ and UK Care Homes (LaUNCH) Study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The LPZ and UK care homes study - qualitative focus groups and interviews to explore the implementation of first UK audit of care home care problems using the LPZ (Landielijke Pravelentiemeting Zorgproblemen) tool
IRAS ID
196142
Contact name
Adam L Gordon
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Research and Innovation, University of Nottingham
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 2 months, 7 days
Research summary
The East Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative, a branch of the East Midlands Academic Health Sciences Network, conducted an audit to record the prevalence of care problems across 27 volunteer care homes on the 26th November 2015. It used an audit tool developed in the Netherlands called the LPZ (Landielijke Pravelentiemeting Zorgproblemen, which translates to “Prevalence measure of care problems”).
The LPZ and UK care homes (LAUNCH) study is a brief qualitative study to collate information about how the audit tool worked in UK care homes and whether it produced data which might be used to improve patient care.
During the first 2 months of 2016, we will conduct a series of focus groups (up to 20) with care homes which participated in the audit. We will invite staff and residents, their families and tissue viability nurses from the NHS – who helped to perform the audit - to participate. Only residents with capacity will be recruited. A semi-structured approach will be taken. Any participants who ask to be interviewed individually, or those who appear to have particular insights, will be offered the opportunity for a one-to-one interview on an ad hoc basis. All focus groups and interviews will be tape-recorded. Transcription and anonymisation will be undertaken prior to analysis.
Analysis will look for common themes emerging with particular attention to: barriers and facilitators to implementing the audit tool in the UK; what went well and what went less well on audit day; the extent to which care homes felt able to interpret and act upon audit data; and the sorts of actions that the data might trigger to drive quality improvement.
Results will be included in a report for health and social care commissioners and providers as they consider how best to benchmark quality of care in care homes.
REC name
West of Scotland REC 3
REC reference
16/WS/0009
Date of REC Opinion
14 Jan 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion