Enhanced Care Home Outcomes
Research type
Research Study
Full title
An evaluation of the experiences of staff and stakeholders working with an integrated Care Home Support Service (CHSS)
IRAS ID
190352
Contact name
Jane Fossey
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
1163, Clinicaltrials.gov
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 7 months, 31 days
Research summary
Improving care for people with dementia is a key priority in Oxfordshire’s Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2012-16. Dementia Challenge funding was awarded to redesign Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust’s care home service by integrating the physical health and mental health team provision.
The new service combines two approaches which have been shown to be effective in randomised control trials (Fossey 2006; Ballard 2015) and open studies (Ballard 2009; Brooker 2015). Evidence suggests that it is feasible to implement one of the approaches into a specialist mental health NHS context (James, 2011) but no widespread implementation or the combined approach developed in this NHS service has previously been undertaken.
Evaluating the implementation of health care initiatives is crucial in determining their impact and sustainability in a routine NHS setting. This CLAHRC Oxford funded study aims to explore the experiences of a variety of stakeholders who form part of a wider system around the Integrated Care Home Support Service
Stakeholder groups (GPs, care home staff, residents’ family members and service-user representatives) that are involved in the care of care home residents with dementia, will be invited to participate in focus groups approximately 12 months after the implementation of the new service model in order to investigate:
1. experiences of an integrated care home in-reach team.
2. perceived impact of the model on the care of residents in care homes.
3. impact of the model on stakeholders’ own delivery of care
4. How the care home support service can best work with stakeholders in the future.
In addition, information obtained from service improvement workshops which were completed as part of routine service evaluation with Oxford Health staff groups will be anonymised and analysed. These workshops were voluntary exercises, for which consent was obtained to evaluate the impact of training and use of new model and on-going supervision needs.REC name
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