Curated Care: Highland Hospice Cube. Version 1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Developing a Design Brief that outlines the opportunities and challenges for delivering hospice services over a distance: widening access for patients and professionals.
IRAS ID
143827
Contact name
Lynn-Sayers McHattie
Contact email
Research summary
The research will address the following main questions: what are the opportunities for, and challenges to, improving access to hospice services for individuals and their families regardless of diagnosis, time or geographical location?
Highland Hospice serves a population of 220,000 people distributed over an area of 10,000 square miles. The majority of clients access services based within the Hospice building, tend to live within a 30 mile radius of Inverness and, if out-patients, have contact within ’office hours’.
Highland Hospice wishes to explore the potential to enable access to hospice support over a distance and at any time of day or night. The use of information and communication technology (ICT) and the potential to build on the long experience of working with volunteers and two particular areas that will be explored. All the current services provided by the hospice and any potential new services that emerge from the research will be included in the scope of the project.
The research project will develop a written ’Design Brief’ to clearly define the challenge that needs to be addressed by the design team and to provide a reference point. The Design Brief will outline (i) the practical challenges of remote delivery of hospice services, (ii) the needs of particular end-users and (iii) potential service opportunities. The Design Brief will be the starting point for a further study involving a design team prototyping one or more services, getting feedback from users, and iterating the design.
REC name
North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 2
REC reference
14/NS/0020
Date of REC Opinion
7 Feb 2014
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion