Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR)

Speech and language therapy (SLT) and neurodevelopmental assessment

This mapping review will identify and map UK examples of sustainable transformations within SLT and neurodevelopmental assessment under a community paediatrics service.

Link to protocol (coming soon)

Mislabelling patients

Patient safety is of importance for all healthcare settings. Mistakes can happen when the right patient or clinical information is missing. This can have far-reaching and serious consequences, especially for a very unwell patient who needs vital care at the right time. We wanted to understand the size of this problem and also find out what causes these mistakes and what could help prevent them.

Our review seeks to:

• systematically identify and describe the scale and nature of patient misidentification during critical emergency situations in hospital settings generalisable to the UK National Health Service (NHS),

• find definitions or classifications of critical clinical information,

• understand how critical information should be stored to optimise access during an in-hospital clinical emergency,

• identify facilitators and barriers to accurate critical information at the point of access during an emergency.

For more information about this project please see the review protocol.

Mechanisms for Knowledge Mobilisation: Systematic Search and Synthesis of Case Studies with Transferable Lessons

Knowledge mobilisation relates to “sharing knowledge between different communities to create new knowledge to catalyse change”. It involves making sure that information and evidence is accessible, understandable and useful for those who will put it into action to improve research, policy and practice. Much review activity to date has focused on the effectiveness of a multitude of interventions. However these interventions are known to be heavily context-dependent meaning that it is challenging for implementation teams to know which interventions to choose and whether the chosen combination will work as intended. 

Our review seeks to:

• identify key mechanisms for knowledge mobilisation between researchers and stakeholders in health care;

• map interventions used to activate the nominated mechanisms;

• provide a critical analysis of interventions and mechanisms as exemplified in a series of diverse case studies. 

For more information about this project visit the NIHR Funding and Awards website.

Metrics and indicators in primary care

We are currently undertaking a systematic review of metrics and indicators used in quality improvement and organisational development in primary care and general practice. The review will answer the following questions:

1. Which metrics and indicators have been used to quantify service improvements in general practice and primary care, and how do these map to the different domains of NHS England’s General Practice Improvement Programme (GPIP)?

2. Which quality improvement or organisational development interventions/initiatives have been delivered in general practice and primary care in the UK to address these improvement domains?

For more information about this project visit the NIHR Funding and Awards website.