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Online Supportive Conversations and Reflection Sessions (OSCaRS): A Feasibility Studywith care home staff during the pandemic (2021)
Report
Johnston, L. (2021). Online Supportive Conversations and Reflection Sessions (OSCaRS): A Feasibility Studywith care home staff during the pandemic. Edinburgh: CSO

A study in three cares homes was undertaken to assess the feasibility of providing online emotional support and practice-based learning on death/dying and end of life care during the pandemic of 2020, to groups of staff in care homes for older people... Read More about Online Supportive Conversations and Reflection Sessions (OSCaRS): A Feasibility Studywith care home staff during the pandemic.

Developing a Data & Innovation Platform for Care Homes In Scotland (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Johnston, L., Hockley, J., & Henderson, D. (2020, October). Developing a Data & Innovation Platform for Care Homes In Scotland. Presented at EuGMS Congress 2020, Online

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the need for reliable, real time data on the care of older people. We aimed to identify current data availability, challenges, and priorities for future research and innovations in Car... Read More about Developing a Data & Innovation Platform for Care Homes In Scotland.

Supporting the resilience and retention of frontline care workers in care homes for older people: A scoping review and thematic synthesis (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Johnston, L., Malcolm, C., Rambabu, L., Hockley, J., & Shenkin, S. D. Supporting the resilience and retention of frontline care workers in care homes for older people: A scoping review and thematic synthesis

The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the need to ensure that strategic and operational approaches
to retain high quality, resilient frontline care home workers, who are not registered nurses, are
informed by context specific, high quality evidence.... Read More about Supporting the resilience and retention of frontline care workers in care homes for older people: A scoping review and thematic synthesis.

The Development of a Care Home Data Platform in Scotland: Insights from the Care Home Innovation Partnership, Lothian (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Johnston, L., Hockley, J., Henderson, D. A., & Shenkin, S. D. The Development of a Care Home Data Platform in Scotland: Insights from the Care Home Innovation Partnership, Lothian

Care homes collect a large amount of data about their residents, and the care provided, but there is a lack of consistency in how this information is collected. There is also a need to minimise the burden of data collection on staff, ensure informati... Read More about The Development of a Care Home Data Platform in Scotland: Insights from the Care Home Innovation Partnership, Lothian.

Systematic review and thematic synthesis of the implementation and impact of holistic needs assessments for people affected by cancer (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Johnston, L., Young, J., & Campbell, K. (2019, September). Systematic review and thematic synthesis of the implementation and impact of holistic needs assessments for people affected by cancer. Poster presented at IPOS World Congress of Psycho-Oncology and Psychosocial Academy, Banff, Canada

Background/rationale or Objectives/purpose: International government and clinical policy recommends individuals affected by cancer should have all their needs assessed. Implementation of holistic needs assess-ments (HNA) is howev... Read More about Systematic review and thematic synthesis of the implementation and impact of holistic needs assessments for people affected by cancer.

Beneath the ‘PROM’? What people affected by cancer really value from services: thematic synthesis of findings from two national cancer programmes (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Johnston, L., & Young, J. (2019, September). Beneath the ‘PROM’? What people affected by cancer really value from services: thematic synthesis of findings from two national cancer programmes. Poster presented at IPOS World Congress of Psycho-Oncology and Psychosocial Academy, Banff, Canada

Objective/Purpose
Internationally, little is known about how services contribute to positive changes in Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) from the patients’ perspective. This study identified the critical service components that people affec... Read More about Beneath the ‘PROM’? What people affected by cancer really value from services: thematic synthesis of findings from two national cancer programmes.

The implementation and impact of Holistic Needs Assessments for people affected by cancer: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the literature (2019)
Journal Article
Johnston, L., Young, J., & Campbell, K. (2019). The implementation and impact of Holistic Needs Assessments for people affected by cancer: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the literature. European Journal of Cancer Care, 28(3), Article e13087. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.13087

Objective:
Globally, cancer services herald the use of Holistic Needs Assessments (HNA). Implementation is, however, heterogeneous. There is a need to understand what effect implementation variation has on patient experience, outcomes and service d... Read More about The implementation and impact of Holistic Needs Assessments for people affected by cancer: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the literature.

More than a hanky and a leaflet: Supporting People with Individual Budgets after treatment for cancer in Lanarkshire (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Johnston, L., Coonagh, K., McComish, G., Russell, J., Pearson, C., & Campbell, K. (2019, February). More than a hanky and a leaflet: Supporting People with Individual Budgets after treatment for cancer in Lanarkshire. Presented at BPOS 2019 Annual Conference, Chester

Supporting People with Individual Budgets Project was funded by Macmillan Cancer Support Transforming Care after Treatment Programme. It aimed to combine motivational planning sessions with an individual budget of £250 to support people after treatme... Read More about More than a hanky and a leaflet: Supporting People with Individual Budgets after treatment for cancer in Lanarkshire.

The meaning and measurement of outcomes in survivorship (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Campbell, K., Johnston, L., & Marron, B. (2018, November). The meaning and measurement of outcomes in survivorship. Poster presented at UKONS 2018, Glasgow

Background: The Transforming Care after Treatment (TCAT) programme in Scotland, funded by Macmillan Cancer Support, oversees the implementation of different local approaches to achieving ‘good survivorship’ through enhancing follow up and assessment.... Read More about The meaning and measurement of outcomes in survivorship.

Systematic review of the implementation and impact of holistic needs assessments for people affected by cancer (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Campbell, K., Johnston, L., & Young, J. (2018, November). Systematic review of the implementation and impact of holistic needs assessments for people affected by cancer. Poster presented at UKONS 2018, Glasgow, Scotland

Purpose: International government and clinical policy recommends people affected by cancer should have all their needs assessed. Implementation of holistic needs assessments (HNA) is however heterogeneous, involving different assessors, assessment to... Read More about Systematic review of the implementation and impact of holistic needs assessments for people affected by cancer.

How can national evaluators enhance evidence from local transformational change to influence policy and decision making? (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Campbell, K., Johnston, L., & Marron, B. (2018, November). How can national evaluators enhance evidence from local transformational change to influence policy and decision making?. Poster presented at UKONS 2018, Glasgow, Scotland

Background: A multidisciplinary team at Edinburgh Napier University are evaluating the Macmillan Cancer Support funded Transforming Care after Treatment programme (TCAT) in Scotland which stablished 25 local projects, each with different local approa... Read More about How can national evaluators enhance evidence from local transformational change to influence policy and decision making?.

Protocol for a longitudinal mixed methods realist evaluation of holistic needs assessment and care planning for people affected by cancer (2018)
Journal Article
Johnston, L., & Campbell, K. (2018). Protocol for a longitudinal mixed methods realist evaluation of holistic needs assessment and care planning for people affected by cancer. BMC Health Services Research, 18, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3373-6

Background: In 2012, approximately 14 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed. As a result of advances in treatment, screening and prevention programmes the number of people surviving cancer globally is also increasing.
The growing understanding... Read More about Protocol for a longitudinal mixed methods realist evaluation of holistic needs assessment and care planning for people affected by cancer.

Transforming Care After Treatment Partnership, Integration and Co-ordination (2018)
Report
Campbell, K., & Johnston, L. (2018). Transforming Care After Treatment Partnership, Integration and Co-ordination. Scotland: Macmillan Cancer Support

This Bulletin presents the evidence and learning on the implementation of holistic needs assessment (HNA) within 11 completed local projects from the national evaluative perspective. The data sources used are given in Appendix One.
It focuses on dif... Read More about Transforming Care After Treatment Partnership, Integration and Co-ordination.