Piloting new approaches: Adult Inpatients Survey Pilot 2014
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Piloting new approaches: Adult Inpatient Survey Pilot 2014
IRAS ID
145677
Contact name
Chris Graham
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Care Quality Commission
Research summary
We are undertaking a pilot to determine the feasibility of new approaches as part of the NHS National Patient Survey Programme, run by the surveys co-ordination Centre based at the Picker Institute on behalf of the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The pilot will be using the existing sampling methodology from the longest running acute survey, within the programme- the Adult Inpatient Survey- whilst trialing new innovations. The sampling method ensures that only adults aged 16 years and above are eligible, and certain further exclusions are made such as particular reasons for admission to hospital, deceased patients, day case patients, patients who have indicated dissent and patients known to be current inpatients. First innovation to be tested is the weekly submission of survey response data to the co-ordination centre; secondly, increasing the sample size slightly to combat decreasing response rates across the survey programme; and thirdly Only 10 NHS trusts will participate in the pilot, over two waves of fieldwork beginning at the end of January 2014 and end of of March 2014 respectively. There will be no transfer of patient identifiable data outside of the NHS trust- each trust will be responsible for applying mailing labels and sending the questionnaire packs out, however theses will have been fulfilled by an approved mailing house (with NHS IG Toolkit Approval). Completed questionnaires will be returned to the mailing house who will submit data to the co-ordination centre on a weekly basis. The NHS trust will not receive response data, and there will be no way of linking the response data to individual patients. Findings from the pilot will be disseminated to NHS trusts but, again, all data will be anonymised and in the form of reports rather than raw response data or an abridged dataset.
REC name
North West - Haydock Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/NW/0026
Date of REC Opinion
10 Jan 2014
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion