Evaluation of Rapid Health Service Digitilisation in COVID Response [COVID-19]
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Evaluation of the rapid digitilisation of four health and wellbeing services during the COVID-19 response in an NHS Trust
IRAS ID
286543
Contact name
Hannah Bradwell
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Plymouth
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
University Ethics Application Number, 2300
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 28 days
Research summary
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is a global health concern (Aprahamian et al. 2020), which has resulted in rapid digitilisation of healthcare services (Greenhalgh et al. 2020). This protects clinicians and patients, and aids in workforce capacity (Hollander et al. 2020).\n\nDigital health technologies are the core interest the EPIC project (University of Plymouth). We (EPIC) have been collaborating with stakeholders at Cornwall Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust (CFT), who are currently implementing four health technologies in line with the digital response to COVID-19 (Greenhalgh et al., 2020), and have requested evaluation support. Implementation of these technologies is therefore not part of this research. The four technologies are the ORCHA digital app library, Attend Anywhere video consulting, Nuance voice-to-text electronic care recording and SilverCloud online cognitive behavioural therapy.\n\nEvaluation of the rapid roll-out of these four technologies will allow identification and support overcoming barriers, assessment of cost-benefits for CFT/NHS business cases/decisions, and publishable guidance relevant to other health trusts implementing similar platforms. \n\nParticipants in primary data collection would be NHS clinicians implementing the technologies, complimented by secondary data sets of patient and staff feedback collected by CFT, with access to anonymised data sets provided to the research team.\n\nThe research setting is Cornwall Foundation Trust.\n\nThe study will span 12 months, and involve interviews and questionnaires with consenting clinicians, and analysis of secondary data sets.\n
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