MINDS WP2
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Coproducing improved mental health acute inpatient discharge using a Systems Approach: MINDS study WP2
IRAS ID
324731
Contact name
Lisa Gruenwald
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 7 months, 31 days
Research summary
This application is part of a wider NIHR funded study to improve the discharge process from acute mental health inpatient wards. The overall study is split up into three separate studies: Part 1 aims to understand issues with the current discharge process. Part 2 aims to codesign improvements to the discharge process. Part 3 aims to trial these improvements on selected wards. Part 1 has already been granted ethical approval (IRAS 315309). We are seeking ethical approval for Part 2 now.
The current study (Part 2) includes 1) co-design workshops (with service users, staff members and carers). Our previous work included interviewing staff members, service users and carers on their thoughts of discharge, and completing inpatient ward observations (Part1). We would now like to conduct co-design workshops, which will be based on the information gathered from the interviews and ward observations. Participants within the co-design workshops will review these stimulus materials, and suggest ideas for improving the discharge process from mental health inpatient wards; the Systemic Discharge Approach (SDA).
2) The research team will synthesise the information gathered from the co-design workshops and design the new intervention, alongside the studies’ Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG).
3) Once the new intervention has been designed, we will ask the same staff members, carers and service users from the initial co-design workshops to meet us again for a feedback session, to ensure that we have executed their ideas correctly.
The workshops and synthesis follow the Engineering Better Care Approach, using tools from www.iitoolkit.com, developed by the University of Cambridge. Workshops will be conducted in 3 participating NHS trusts.
The outputs from these workshops will inform Part 3 of the study, where the proposed improvements will be trialled on participating inpatient wards (we will seek ethical approval for this in the future).REC name
West Midlands - Black Country Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
23/WM/0071
Date of REC Opinion
2 May 2023
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion