The Bradford Covid-19 Cohort Study [COVID-19]

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Understanding how a healthcare organisation responds to a public health crisis: The Bradford Covid-19 Cohort Study.

• IRAS ID

  281829

• Contact name

  Jane O'Hara

• Contact email

  jane.o'hara@bthft.nhs.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 0 months, 0 days

• Research summary

  The growing spread of coronavirus globally represents a huge challenge for health services, and how organisations manage their staff and services at this time will be crucial. Much of what we know about how organisations cope at times of extreme challenge is gathered retrospectively, and very little is known about exactly how different levels of staff within an organisation communicate and support each other to flex and adapt in the face of adversity.\n\nThis study will use an emergent theory called resilient healthcare, which views safety as the capacity of a system to adapt and respond to changing demands. In this approach, safety is characterised less by ‘learning from failure’, and more by ‘learning from success’, identifying how services support staff to provide safe care, even when under extreme duress.\n\nThis study aims to capture the real-time experience of staff across all levels and settings within Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The data gathered will be drawn together to create an organisational case study of how a healthcare organisation manages during a public health crisis. Most importantly however, it would provide a rich understanding of organisational resilience that can be used for future planning of such crises, and likely afford a range of generalisable conclusions that would greatly add to our understanding of how to support healthcare organisations facing adversity. \n

• REC name

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• REC reference

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