HSR UK conference 2023

THIS Institute exhibited at the 6th HSR UK annual conference on 4 – 6 July.  Watch and listen to research discussions and presentations from our research team and fellows from this year’s event:

July 4

• Stephanie Kumpunen: What is missing in reports of rapid ethnographies that inform quality improvement in health and care? A scoping review.
• Helen Crump: Navigating the cult of the healthcare success story: learning how to learn from failure in the reporting of service improvement.
• Dr Elisa Liberati, Professor Graham Martin, Natalie Richards and Thea Hatfield: Ethnographic study of how physical illness is diagnosed in people with mental health conditions in acute care settings.

July 5

• Dr Patrick Burch: To what degree can access to general practice be replicated through large scale collaborative extended access? A case study of two extended access providers.
• Dr Heather Cassie: Choosing wisely in dentistry: reducing unnecessary care in dental primary care.
• Dr Elisa Liberati, Professor Graham Martin: What can safety cases offer to improving patient safety? Findings from the evaluation of the Safer Clinical Systems approach.
• Professor Justin Waring: Watching the detectives: questions of legitimacy and public value with the introduction of a novel accident investigation agency in the English healthcare sector.
• Dr Robert Pralat: The patient safety specialist role: early insights from a formative evaluation.

Poster presentations

• Emma Berry: Care Opinion and NHS Scotland: NHS staff findings from a case study research project on using online patient feedback.
• Dr Georgia Black: Patients experiences of non-specific symptom pathways for cancer: an ethnographic study.

You can also find out more about our open-access series, Elements of Improving Quality and Safety in Healthcare.