Workshop 4 of the CLAHRC NWC

Partner Priority Programme (PPP)

22 February 2017, Preston

Pictures and Case Studies

Aims of the Workshop:

Help on writing up Evaluation Reports for the CLAHRC NWC Steering Board

Guidance and advice on systematic reviews

Considering economic evaluation and investment returns in plans

Public and patient engagement revisited

Action planning & consultation time/surgeries

Rapid Review Advisory Panel share with the Workshop an overview of

Systematic Reviews and Feedback from Workshop 3.

Discussing how systematic reviews can support evaluation and consideration

of health inequalities.

Interrogating the Evaluation Plan Template which has been provided for all

Partner representatives to complete and submit to the CLAHRC NWC Steering

Board.

“Being on the frontline and treating oncology patients daily, I am well placed to

identify which systems and practices have the best potential to be reviewed or

evaluated in order to prevent cancer patient readmissions via accident and

emergency departments.

I’ve come onto the Partner Priority Programme (PPP), with the full backing of my

senior medical team, as I already have an idea I want to develop to enhance part of

the current patient pathway. The PPP Workshops and Collaborative Implementation

Group I have been allocated have already seen me performing a literature review,

learning about health economics and stirred up my interest in Research. The

networking opportunities with other clinicians, university research professionals and

NHS managers to share what we are working on in a mutli-disciplinary approach,

have been very beneficial during the workshops.

There is a supportive structure in place in the PPP and this is giving me the

confidence to press ahead and change things for patients for the better.”

CASE STUDY

June Holmes is a Chemotherapy Nurse

and is working on an initiative for

Clatterbridge Hospital.

June discusses

her project with

CLAHRC NWC’s

Jo Gibson, who is

Facilitator of

June’s

Collaborative

Implementation

Group (CIG) -

Multi-disciplinary

team working in

integrated care.

The three Collaborative Implementation Groups working together and

discussing their Partner initiatives and sharing information / experience

1) Improving Access and Better Management

2) New pathways and Service Delivery

3) Multi-Disciplinary Team Working - Integrated Care.

“I’ve joined the (Partner Priority Programme) PPP to evaluate our Knowsley

Community Cardiovascular Service,” says Zoe.

“The Service was implemented to reduce health inequalities by being community

based and manage early diagnosis and encouraging self-management of Cardiac

Rehabilitation across the borough. We need the

evidence to prove how effective the service is and I

want from the CLAHRC NWC the skills to do that by

assessing and quantifying the data we have collected

already on usage, population, service model, patient

feedback etc. The CLAHRC NWC programme has

taught me initially the value of public involvement and

its importance in the evaluation and our Public

Advisers have been coming to the workshops with

both me and the Head of our Clinical Trials Unit.

The biggest benefit of being part of the PPP though

has been able to register with CLAHRC NWC’s Internship programme. I am hoping

to gain analytical skills and specific training in data analysis as the evaluation project

report I compile will go to my own Trust Board and local Clinical Commissioning

Group for benchmark

model comparison with

other services.

I couldn’t have even started

this evaluation without the support of the CLAHRC NWC team. I have our lead

Consultant Cardiologist supporting me on the PPP scheme as demonstrating to

commissioners the value we are delivering to patients is so important and the

Internship will allow me one day a week to complete this critical piece of work.

Collaboration is key and the PPP is demonstrating the benefit of working with other

stakeholders such as the local Council to share their data with me which will now be

integral towards the final evaluation of our service.”

CASE STUDY

Zoe McIntosh is a Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Facilitator at Liverpool Heart

& Chest Hospital

Zoe works with Public Advisers and members of her clinical team in the CIG

Group.

Other presentations featured economic evaluation and investment returns and

patient and public representation

Ruth Young, PPP Lead and Knowledge Exchange Deputy Lead encouraged the

attendees to think of their evaluation projects as a tool to work out what needed to

change within their service and to take away from the PPP programme the know

how to do it.

Staff taking ownership of the work and working with others internally to gain “buy-in”

can lead to system change.

Final plans of evaluated services, presented internally or to Commissioners, can also

be a lever to securing an improved system for quality within organisations.

A further workshop will be held in July 2017 where Partners will provide an

update on their progress.

ENDS.