The Patient Safety Collaborative Evaluation Study (The PiSCES Study)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The Patient Safety Collaborative Evaluation Study (The PiSCES Study)
IRAS ID
179003
Contact name
Rod Sheaff
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Plymouth University
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 11 months, 30 days
Research summary
Safe health care is a basic expectation for patients and a core NHS responsibility. The Francis Report demonstrated that the major changes required to reliably deliver safe health care in the NHS have not yet taken place. The Government's response to the Francis Report included implementing 15 Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSC) covering all England and lasting at least five years. This research aims to evaluate the progress of the PSCs in the first two years to determine what difference they
are making and how their impact can be maximised in the remainder of the programme.The research will achieve these aims by using three methods:
1. Independent interviewers will speak to staff and patients involved with PSCs to find out how PSCs have been run, what impact they have had on organisations (such as hospitals) and whether people believe that care has improved. These interviews will also help us understand which parts of the collaboratives worked and which did not.2. We will use existing routine administrative data to compare levels of harm before the programme, at the start, and after two years. We can use the same data to compare across the PSCs.
3. We will analyse patient and staff surveys to see what difference PSCs made and to compare PSCs. At the start and end of the evaluation staff will complete a questionnaire to assess how teams and organisations think about patient safety. Previous research has shown that this accurately reflects the standard of care being given and the chances of patients being unintentionally harmed.
To give us the best understanding of how PSCs have done and the extent to which they have worked we will combine the results of each of these three methods into a final report that we will ensure is widely heard about, read, and acted upon.
REC name
HSC REC B
REC reference
15/NI/0235
Date of REC Opinion
18 Nov 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion