Health, Care or Voluntary Sector Role: Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist
Supporting Organisation: Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust
I have been a Consultant Psychiatrist for nearly 10 years. I have been involved with the Research department since I became a Registrar and have continued ever since. I have taken on different roles of Co -investigator, Principal Investigator in many Research Portfolio studies. I help to screen studies that come into the Trust regarding whether we will be able to safely host them and whether we would be able to make their recruitment target. I have been awarded the Green shoots award earlier on and recently been part of the COMMEND training from NIHR.
I would like to gain the learning during this Fellowship in order to initiate, conduct and complete the study. I would like to grow as a researcher and this might pave a way for clinically meaningful future independent Research projects. I am very much motivated in embedding Outcome Measurements in clinical Psychiatry practice which would improve the way we deliver care for our service users. Hence undertaking this project.
About Santvana's fellowship project
Title: Understanding the facilitators and barriers of measuring, embedding and analysing Mental Health outcomes as part of routine clinical practice by clinicians in City Community Mental Health Teams in Norwich (Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust)
To understand the barriers and facilitators (individual, professional roles, team, service and Trust level) in embedding (implementing and recording) Outcome measurement by clinicians (in City Community Mental Health Teams) in routine clinical practice.
Understanding the barriers and facilitators in implementing outcome measures (by different professional subgroups within the teams) in routine clinical practice would help in being able to make a plan of overcoming these barriers. This would have a very desirable outcome for service users as they would be champions in their own recovery (DIALOG plus) as they would have a say in their care and where they would like to be. It would help enable clinicians to gain a good idea of their service users overall functioning using the MIRECC GAF scores which incorporates 3 domains of recovery (Occupational, social and symptomatic), and will further help in streamlining treatment to improve the outcome scores. This would enable clinicians to evaluate where patients are in their recovery so they can put in place the relevant plan for where the patients would like to be.
Implementing outcome measures would help in measuring health gains during episodes of care, which would in turn drive us towards providing and evidencing excellence in care provision. This would help the Trust in gaining the critical evidence they need and help in redeeming The Trust’s reputation which will improve clinician morale and patient’s confidence in the services being provided.
Santvana's Supervisor: Dr Ben Bowers, University of Cambridge
Contact Santvana: santvana.pandey@nsft.nhs.uk