Archived Case Studies

Form created to capture information on patients / carers wishing to participate in the local research register, to be contacted about future studies.

Project Brief produced in early 2012 to define the scope, objective, deliverables and success measures of the project.

Presented here are five posted, produced using various images to use to promote Parkinson’s Disease Research in the Neurology Department at John Radcliffe Hospital.

Simple effective tool developed by Kingsley Powell, South West DeNDRoN to assist clinical studies officers and research nurses in recruiting to studies. Enhanced check-list format, which prompts teams to use all techniques and helps understand challenges to delivery.

To test the effectiveness of the recruitment tool, CSO staff have been surveyed at intervals to understand team’s confidence in utilising the tool and new recruitment techniques, here are the impressive results.

Limited time and resources can be off-set with good planning. This download provides the standard clinic form pre and post project. It demonstrates how additional information began to be captured and used to check on recruitment and inform future planning and staff deployment.

Recording the effects of change are essential, how else will you know if you have been successful? Clinics held in Salford were some of those which were the subject of a change in recruitment process. This document provides a simple analysis of the before and after effects on recruitment.

This document provides four letter templates produced to send to GPs taking a variety of approached to introduce working in partnership to promote research to patients.

This research information sheet was specifically drafted for General Practice. This real example was used to share information on a study in Parkinson’s disease.

This table was used to manage contact with surgeries, this document details how the table was used, and how a short list was created using: www.gpcontract.co.uk

Successful NHS programmes operate from board to ward, you have to gain support and buy-in at all levels. This presentation was produced to be delivered to the Trust Board, seeking Director level support for furthering the integration of research into care pathways.

All NHS Trust boards will have a standard format for board papers. This paper was presented to the Trust Board to talk to the idea of the organisation being fully research minded in its delivery of care (paper was supported and approved for implementation).

Here we have a high-level communications strategy to steer how the project would be implemented and communicated to staff and other stakeholders. You could add to this with Stakeholder Analysis and using the NHS Institute Communications Matrix.

How do you know if your project has been successful? Successful implementation doesn’t mean success, this only comes if the project delivered the right outcome e.g. more patients into studies. Here we have staff survey and results, conducted prior to conducting the project to enable measurement of success – awareness and involvement in research pre and post.

In PRINCE2 terms a Project Initiation Document (PID) bundles together all the info you gathered during the start-up phase of a project i.e. plan, business case etc. We don’t always follow these prescribed systems in the NHS and this PID used by the project for research integration is a simplified but useful version.

Working document to detail levels of research awareness, used to inform implementation of research minded culture.

Blank template which could be used to hold information on local patient groups, helps manage contacts and track information.

Form created to capture information on patients / carers wishing to participate in the local research register, to be contacted about future studies.

Simple handout designed to be handed out at patient group meeting to share information on local studies and research opportunities.This can be supplied for Join Dementia Research by getting in touch via contact us.

This slides set was used as a template to present to information to Parkinson’s Disease Patient Groups.

Copies of three local newsletter articles which shared information on DeNDRoN’s work with patients Parkinson’s Disease groups.

Information for Parkinson’s Disease patients to explain DeNDRoN and to encourage participation in research.

Policies and changes in the NHS are agreed and implemented after consultation. It is important to contribute and promote research at every opportunity. This document is the consultation response submitted by DeNDRoN – making the case for change.

This comprehensive document provides details the standards that specialist memory services have to meet to become accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. This 3rd edition includes includes a requirement to promote research and register patients interest.

Having a policy is great, however policies have to be implemented, and understood. This guidance has been produced by DeNDRoN to support memory services to meet the new research standards – providing practical support for delivery.

Supporting implementation and gaining the buy-in from those responsible for implementation is key to success. These slides were used at the MSNAP annual conference in 2012, sharing information on the new research standard.

Not everyone will have the opportunity to create a new website from scratch, but most will be able to have dedicated sections in existing sites, so having a brief and clear plan is still important. This document was produced by North East DeNDRoN to outline the purpose of the new website, and to provide an overview for the design and development company.

Even if you are only able to have dedicated pages in existing sites, you could explore design opportunities. This concepts document provided by Blumilk – the main new feature of this site being to allow patients to register for research.

Plan your pages! Simple overview structure from Blumilk, useful starting point for any web development work.

Straightforward overview of the website, page by page presentation.

It’s important to have planned what you will do with enquiries or queries resulting from you web presence be that on websites or social media. This protocol was written to manage how the Local Research Network manages website patient applications.

Simple leaflet used to promote patient self-registration via the newly designed website.

Project briefs are essential, however they become vital when the project is being delivered by a team. The brief ensures that everyone working on the project has a clear and shared vision for delivery. This project brief was used to detail DeNDRoNs work on the website patient information project.

This spreadsheet holds the results of the web search, and the analysis undertaken to identify what research information was already hosted. This template and example could be applied to any disease area, and is a function that could be done annually.

If asking companies and organisations to publish content to promote research you should make it as simple as possible for them to help. Offering to collaborate on content development, or providing content can help deliver. DeNDRoN worked with Ourhealth to generate contact for the South West.