Care Home Data Platform

Dr Catherine Mahoney c.mahoney@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Mrs Lucy Johnston L.Johnston@napier.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow

Supporting Recovery Through Integration: What Works? What Doesn’t? Oct 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2017
Integration of health and social care services is happening across the United Kingdom. Integrating services is important as it puts more focus on supporting the lives – not just the health – of individuals and families. Vulnerable groups in society,... Read More about Supporting Recovery Through Integration: What Works? What Doesn’t?.

Care Home Innovation Partnership - Ensuring a Whole Systems Analysis Sep 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2023
• Conduct an ‘Audit’ of data items currently collected through electronic care planning in the 6 partner care homes to establish what data are routinely collected as part of resident care
• Create a usable data inventory from which data platfo... Read More about Care Home Innovation Partnership - Ensuring a Whole Systems Analysis.

Online debriefings with care home staff after a resident’s death: improving coping mechanisms, team cohesion and communication with relatives May 1, 2020 - May 31, 2021
To support care home staff, it is essential to assist them to cope individually, within a cohesive team and support confident communication about death with excluded relatives. This project focusses on this through online debriefings with staff after... Read More about Online debriefings with care home staff after a resident’s death: improving coping mechanisms, team cohesion and communication with relatives.

Avoiding Burn Out of Care Home Workforce: sharing national learning and local initiatives that support resilience and retention during the COVID-19 pandemic May 1, 2020 - May 31, 2021
A key issue arising from the Covid-19 pandemic for Care Homes is heightened risk of staff burn out, further undermining already problematic staff retention in this sector. This short, high impact study by researchers and practitioners is aligned with... Read More about Avoiding Burn Out of Care Home Workforce: sharing national learning and local initiatives that support resilience and retention during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Small roll out of OSCaRS and further research Feb 1, 2021 - Jan 30, 2022
In May 2020 the Team making this request for funds were awarded ?20,000 from the CSO Covid Rapid Research Programme, to deliver and evaluate the provision of online supportive conversations and reflective sessions (OSCaRS) with care home staff during... Read More about Small roll out of OSCaRS and further research.