Burdett primary care project
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Improving person-centred nurse-led care for primary care patients with progressive multimorbid illness
IRAS ID
315161
Contact name
Ping Guo
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Birmingham
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 10 months, 0 days
Research summary
The prevalence of multimorbidity increases substantially with age and has significant impact in primary care. People with progressive multimorbid illness and their families often suffer complex and multiple symptoms. Palliative care has developed to meet these complex needs and address their physical, psychological symptoms, and provide social, practical, and spiritual support. There is strong evidence that palliative care improves patient outcomes and enables patients to remain at home while saving costs. The hospice movement has provided a model of good palliative care for those with advanced progressive disease, however, there are marked diversity and inequities in provision of this care.
Palliative care and primary health care share common principles and emphasise continuity of care and solidarity (accompaniment), respecting patients’ values and preferences, responding to social suffering, and paying attention to both patients and their families. This study is a one-year project funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing (SB\ZA\101010662\495748) to improve person-centred nurse-led care for primary care patients with progressive multimorbid illness. This proposed project is a mixed-methods study which will develop and pilot a tele-health approach (IPOS-APP) in primary care, to better identify and address complex unmet needs of patients and families in primary care, reduce unnecessary emergency hospital admissions, and improve patients’ experience of primary care.
This project promotes the implementation of a tele-health approach in primary care and has enormous implications for public health policy and clinical practice, particularly in response to the current COVID-19 pandemic. It leads directly to patient benefit through early identification and management of unmet needs and symptoms, and provides stakeholder views and an evidence-based implementation strategy for full evaluation of IPOS-APP routine use in primary care.
REC name
East of England - Essex Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
22/EE/0148
Date of REC Opinion
22 Aug 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion