Status:
COMPLETED
Non-medical Practitioner Workforce in the Urgent and Emergency Care System Skill-mix in England
Lead Sponsor:
Kingston University
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Institute for Health Research, United Kingdom
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Conditions:
Emergencies
Eligibility:
All Genders
Brief Summary
This study will explore the result of different skill-mix in ED/UTCs in England, to make recommendations about the best balance. Patient and public involvement (PPI) representatives have helped desig...
Detailed Description
Primary research question What is the impact of different non-medical practitioner skill-mix in Emergency Departments (ED) and Urgent Treatment Centres (UTC) in acute hospitals on patient and service...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- All NHS trusts: - all in England
- Case study trusts: six NHS trusts in England exhibiting different non-medical practitioner to other clinician skill-mix ratios, and giving board-level consent to participation
- Stakeholders: senior NHS clinicians, managers, commissioners and lay representatives with roles and interests in the non-medical practitioner workforce
- Staff observation: non-medical practitioners and junior doctors-in-training in one of six NHS case study trusts who volunteer to being observed in practice for specified time periods
- Staff interviews: staff working with non-medical practitioners and junior doctors-in-training in one of six NHS case study trusts who volunteer to be interviewed
- Patient questionnaire: patients attending the Emergency Department in one of the six NHS case study trusts during specified study data collection periods who agree to take a questionnaire for completion
- Patient interviews: patients attending the Emergency Department in one of the six NHS case study trusts during specified study data collection periods who return a completed questionnaire and volunteer to be interviewed
Exclusion
- Patient data outside of the study time periods
- Staff or patient volunteers in sub-groups (e.g. personal characteristics or roles) that are already represented /over-represented amongst volunteer participants
- those for whom English is difficult to understand or speak/do not have someone with them who can interpret or support.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
March 1 2021
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 31 2025
Estimated Enrollment :
840 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04770766
Start Date
March 1 2021
End Date
March 31 2025
Last Update
September 22 2025
Active Locations (2)
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1
St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
London, London, United Kingdom, SW17 0QT
2
Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education
Kingston, Surrey, United Kingdom, KT2 7LB