Month: May 2018
Continuing Professional Development at your fingertips
Part of the CLAHRC’s mission is to raise awareness of new research evidence, and get it to the front-line where it can used by NHS staff. We are working with our host Trust NHS Bart’s Health to translate the new knowledge we generate into everyday practice among NHS professionals.
Bart’s Education Academy has developed an eCPD app available to download for free for users of Android and iPhone smartphones. The eCPD app aims to reduce the time staff have to leave the frontline to attend training courses in person, and give them more flexible learning they can fit around their busy schedules. The app allows staff to log in and create personal and professional development plans (including mandatory training) and optional learning modules. Once completed a notification is sent to both the member of staff and their supervisor, to show they have carried out the necessary training and are credited with CPD points where appropriate.
The CLAHRC has provided learning modules focused on our research findings, and more of our work will appear on the App in the near future.
We are now rolling out some of our popular CLAHRC Academy courses so that they can be accessed via the App – our Academy Director Dr Nora Pashayan (below right) and Academy Teaching Fellow Dr Silvie Cooper (below left) recently met Director of Academic Health Sciences at Barts Health NHS Trust Professor Jo Martin to launch our Introduction to Evaluation course via the App.
The Barts Education Academy provides clinical placements for 2,500 medical undergraduate students and trains 1,040 junior doctors, over 800 children, adult nursing and midwifery students and 275 allied health professionals. The Education Academy offers resuscitation skills training, moving and handling, simulation and clinical skills training and a range of skills based short courses, as well as ensuring the trust achieves high levels of compliance for its statutory and mandatory training.
Being a Clinical Academic… reflections from CLAHRC HEE NCEL Fellow Lisa Wood
Being a Clinical Academic… reflections from CLAHRC HEE NCEL Fellow Imogen Skene
Outstanding research recognised with 2017 Urwick Prize
CLAHRC researcher Dr Jean Ledger is being honoured for an outstanding research paper on how health care organisations use management knowledge.
Dr Ledger is one of the authors of ‘The Silent Politics of Temporal Work: A Case Study of a Management Consultancy Project to Redesign Public Health Care’ which has won the 2017 Urwick Prize, awarded annually by the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants (WCoMC) for an outstanding recent piece of research relevant to management consultancy, published in the UK. The work addresses the tension generated between consultants and clients through their different perceptions of time.
Lead authors Professors Gerry McGivern, Sue Dopson and Ewan Ferlie attended an Education Supper hosted by WCoMC and were presented with the Cup in April by the Master David Johnson BA FCMA FIMC.
Professor McGivern will be delivering the Urwick Lecture on September 13 and the team will be publishing a book – with a launch scheduled for October.
The Prize is awarded annually to honour the life and work of Colonel Lyndall Urwick, who was a distinguished writer and thinker on the topic of management in the mid-20th century and the founder of Urwick Orr Management Consultants.
Details of the full paper are below
The Silent Politics of Temporal Work: A Case Study of a Management Consultancy Project to Redesign Public Health Care
Gerry McGivern, Sue Dopson, Ewan Ferlie, Michael Fischer, Louise Fitzgerald, Jean Ledger, and Chris Bennett
Organization Studies
First Published July 14, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840617708004
Trends in dementia diagnosis rates in UK ethnic groups: analysis of UK primary care data
The Power of Involving Patients and the Public
“Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) can often be something bolted on to research in a way that fits with the existing research plan. This makes research much easier to press ahead with, as the conflicting and changing opinions of the public do not need to change the planned course of progression. Unusual then, that PPI was considered to be an integral part of Power Up, and awarded time, resources, and influence. The young people who were involved have made great use of this newfound power. The Power Up app is fantastically tailored to the target audience because the target audience made it. The novel approach to PPI used in the project was important in hearing and using the young people’s views…I would urge future researchers to consider PPI as a vital part of research proceedings, as it has been in Power Up.” Project worker, Power Up
The Power Up study, supported by NIHR CLAHRC North Thames, has made the involvement of young people an integral part of the research process in work to develop an app to support shared decision-making in mental health. Power Up is a four-year research project to develop an app for young people to use from their first assessment with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to empower them to be actively involved in decision-making.
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Young people were active participants in taking the concept of a shared decision-making tool through design, prototype, and testing through three different types of involvement: governance of the project; needs and environment analysis; and detailed input for the development of the intervention. PPI was embedded into the project model from the outset, to be iterative and cyclical informing the development and direction of the digital tool at each stage. Involving service users resulted in the identification and implementation of multiple changes to the app, both conceptual and tangible. Several challenges associated with PPI were also encountered, warranting future research and discussion. |
The team has published their involvement experience in a paper published in special themed edition of the Journal of Health Design entitled Patients as co-designers to improve the quality of care
Edridge C L, Edbrooke-Childs J, Martin K, Delane L, Averill P, Feltham A, Rees J, Jeremy G, Chapman L, Craven M P, Wolpert M.
Power Up: Patient and public involvement in developing a shared decision-making app for mental health.
JHD. 2018;3(1):63–74. https://doi.org/10.21853/JHD.2018.40
Privacy Notice
Using patient information
How will this be operated?
Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) is a national programme designed to improve care for patients within the NHS, by reducing unwarranted variations. Our evaluation of the NHS Getting it Right First Time programme could not happen without access to patients’ data and this will play a vital role in our ability to get a picture of how the programme is working and the difference it is making to patient care. We want to be clear about how your data is stored, used and protected in our research. One aspect of this study looks at ‘what works and at what cost?’
We are trying to look at whether the Getting it Right First Time programme in orthopaedic surgery has reduced variations in orthopaedic practice and costs, and improved outcomes for patients. To do this, we are requesting confidential patient data for a group of patients who have undergone elective orthopaedic surgery between 1st April 2009 and 31st March 2018.
The data we would like to use include Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), a database containing details of all admissions to NHS hospitals in England, which is collected so that hospitals can be paid for the care they deliver. We would also like to include Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) for patients who have had hip or knee replacements. NHS patients who have had these procedures have been invited to fill in Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) questionnaires as part of the Department of Health’s PROMs programme. The NHS asks patients about their health and quality of life before they have their operation, and about their health and the effectiveness of the operation afterwards at six months. These data can also be processed and used for other purposes, such as research and planning health services. We would also like to use data from the National Joint Registry (NJR). The NJR was set up by the Department of Health to collect information on all hip, knee, ankle, elbow and shoulder replacement operations across the NHS, to make sure joint replacement implants were working and to also ensure the different types of surgery for these operations were safe and effective.
Secure storage and processing of patient information
This study has already received research ethics approval – a process designed to make sure researchers’ can benefit from accessing data while minimising risk of any harm to patients – and Health Research Authority Confidential Advisory Group Section 2.51 approvals. The legal basis for processing are covered under Article 6 (1) (e) and Article 9 (2) (j).
Personal data of patients – including NHS number, date of birth, sex, postcode and the study ID will only be securely transferred between two organisations – Northgate Public Services (who control NJR data) and NHS Digital (who control HES and PROMs data). This is considered to be personal data according to European data protection rules – the General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR). As these two organisations currently hold the data, and are involved in processing, they are called data processors. The purpose of sending this personal data between the two organisations is so NHS Digital can link these data together for the same patients, to provide more accurate and complete information for researchers who can track a patient’s journey through the NHS system. However, researchers will not have access to any personal identifiable data, and will not be able to identify patients, using the information that they are given by the two organisations (Northgate Public Services and NHS Digital).
Both organisations will securely transfer pseudonymised data to researchers at UCL. Pseudonymisation means the most identifying fields within a database are replaced with artificial identifiers, or pseudonyms so patient information can be processed without researchers being able to identify patients. This means that UCL will be the final and only data controller for the data that is disseminated for the purposes of looking at ‘what works and at what cost?’ UCL will determine the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are to be processed. All pseudonymised patient information will be stored on a secure network that is password-protected
The data will be stored by researchers at UCL until 2021 for analysis and dissemination purposes, and thereafter will be securely destroyed.
UCL Data Protection:
UCL is required by law to comply with data protection legislation. The UK’s regulator for the legislation is the Information Commissioner’s Office. It is the commitment of the university to ensure that every current employee and registered student complies with this Act to ensure the confidentiality of any personal data held by UCL, in whatever medium. This Act came into force on 25 May 2018.
UCL processes the personal data of living individuals such as its staff, students, contractors, research subjects and customers. UCL has a data protection policy as a commitment to the safeguarding of personal data processed by its staff and students, and to ensure compliance with the legislation. It is the duty of data controllers such as UCL to comply with the data protection principles with respect to personal data. This policy describes how UCL will discharge its duties in order to ensure continuing compliance with the Act in general and the data protection principles and rights of data subjects in particular.
Data Protection Officer Contact details:
Stephanie Hume
Research Department Administrator
PA to Professor Rosalind Raine and Professor Naomi Fulop
Department of Applied Health Research, UCL
Visiting Address: 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, Rm 112
Postal Address: UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Tel: 020 3108 3269
E-mail: stephanie.hume@ucl.ac.uk
Opting-out
We are happy to discuss your rights to protect your data, and how exactly it will be used in our research. If you would like further information about the use of your data in this research study, or would like to lodge a complaint to a supervisory authority – please contact us on the details given below. If you would like to request that your confidential patient information is not included in this study, please aim to contact us between 1st May – 24th August 2018 to discuss.
Contact details:
Dr Sarah Jasim
NIHR CLAHRC North Thames
Department of Applied Health Research
University College London
1-19 Torrington Place
London WC1E 7HB
Tel: 020 3105 3233
E-mail: clahrc.girft-evaluation@ucl.ac.uk
Brian Turley Awards – winners and runners up announced
The inaugural London-wide Brian Turley Patient and Carer Involvement Awards took place at the NIHR CLAHRC North West London Spring Collaborative Learning Event on the 26th April 2018. The awards, presented by Simon Denegri (below centre), National Director for Patients and Public in Health Research, celebrate and promote patient and carer involvement in healthcare research and improvement.
The Awards were created in 2017 by NIHR CLAHRC Northwest London in memory of Brian Turley (below) a dedicated and committed patient advocate and disability rights campaigner who worked closely on a project that developed the ‘My Medication Passport’. The awards aim to sustain Brian’s values and commitment to partnerships between professionals and patients, carers and the public in research and service improvement work across the capital.
There were fifteen entries from CLAHRC-funded and supported work across the capital, and feedback on the quality of entries from judges and those interested in the results was positive –
“Once again, it is been a pleasure to read about all of the projects and my sense is the quality of the applications overall is even better than last year which is heartening. Lots of useful tips and the common theme seems to be, we should have started involving patients and carers earlier. Very useful!”
Brian Turley Award Judge Jocelyn Cornwell, Director Point of Care Foundation
“It was an honour for me to be involved in this way. I found the detail of the submissions very interesting and informative. It was reassuring to see so much good work being done”
Brian Turley Award Judge Iain Baxter, Service User
“The nominations were varied and interesting projects, the inclusion of different stakeholders was very good…. As a first-time judge I felt that this was an opportunity to learn and develop a new skill”
Brian Turley Award Judge Charity Gondwe, Carer
The winners were awarded with the opportunity to work with graphic artist Sandra Howgate to prepare a visual representation of their work to promote and share their story with others.
The winners
Patient / Service user / Carer with influence Award
Sophia Kotzamanis – a parent representative for BUDS [Better Use of data to improve parent satisfaction), an Chelsea & Westminster Hospital initiative to improve the experience parents have when their baby is admitted to a neonatal unit. Sophia has also just been awarded a place on the NIHR CLAHRC NWL Improvement Leader Fellowship.
See how Sophia worked with artist Sandra Howgate to capture her work
Team working with patients, service users, carers, families and communities Award
St Mark’s Hospital Patient-Centred Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Care Model at London Northwest Healthcare NHS Trust – The team involved patients and the public in a programme to improve outpatient monitoring for patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) by addressing the mismatch between ‘need’ and ‘access’ to services.
You can see how the team worked with artist Sandra Howgate here
Early Career Researcher/PhD student/Service User Researcher/ Fellow Award
Stuart Green, Public Health Research Fellow based at Imperial College London – Stuart was an integral part of a quality improvement initiative within a mental health trust which aimed to improve cardiometabolic screening of patients through the introduction of a comprehensive physical health assessment.
See the results of Stuart’s work with Sandra Howgate here
Runners up for the awards were
Team working with patients, service users, carers, families and communities Award
The Alcohol research team at CLAHRC South London – Tackling the stigma of alcoholism
Early Career Researcher/PhD student/Service User Researcher/ Fellow Award)
Physio at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Emma Dunphy – for designing a website for people recovering from knee surgery
Patient / Service user / Carer with influence Award
Robin Lomas who worked with UCL researchers to co-investigate the – Impact of Welfare advice in GP practices
Each CLAHRC convened a panel of judges including senior researchers, early career researchers and members of the public and patients to consider the nominations and supporting evidence provided by entrants. In all cases they were impressed by the sheer variety of work in research and service improvement going on across the three London CLAHRCs, and the uniformly high standard of entries.
“Seeing experience and involvement embraced and championed is so fantastic. Working in this way is the future of healthcare; we need to embrace partnership working. Patients are part of the solution”
Brian Turley Award Judge Ellie Wharton, Project Manager
“As a newcomer to CLAHRC, coming from a social science research context, it has been an interesting and illuminating experience to be a judge for the Brian Turley Awards”
Brian Turley Award Judge Sam Miles, Researcher
We have shared detailed feedback with all entrants and strongly encouraged them to seek channels to share their involvements stories through newsletters, websites and in journals.
Sophia Kotzamanis
Patient / Service user / Carer with influence Award
Sophia Kotzamanis – a parent representative for BUDS [Better Use of data to improve parent satisfaction), an initiative aiming to improve the experience parents have when their baby is admitted to a neonatal unit.
