The brief from the Lewisham team

This project sought to address the negative perceptions that Lewisham BME patients have reported of the care they receive for long-term conditions. The proposal was to target specific disease areas and work with service providers, patient representation groups, and patients themselves, to understand the barriers to patients receiving (or perceiving that they have received) first class care.

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Method

What we did.

• A senior academic from Sheffield Hallam attended three subspecialty focus group events that were held over three separate days over the summer of 2017. The approach was standard across all three sub-specialties; breast cancer, prostate cancer and diabetes. The intention was that the academic would attend a patient focus group in the morning followed by a staff focus group in the afternoon. On the day no participants attended for the breast and prostate cancer focus groups but the staff events went ahead as planned.

What we did.

• The staff focus groups were audio recorded by the Sheffield Hallam staff and these were transcribed verbatim and anonymised for analysis. Each focus group was analysed by the academic that attended the focus group using framework analysis. The Sheffield Hallam team met after the initial data analysis to consider common themes that ran across all three staff focus groups this facilitated the development of an initial educational framework.

What we did.

• The staff focus groups were audio recorded by the Sheffield Hallam staff and these were transcribed verbatim and anonymised for analysis. Each focus group was analysed by the academic that attended the focus group using framework analysis. The Sheffield Hallam team met after the initial data analysis to consider common themes that ran across all three staff focus groups this facilitated the development of an initial educational framework.

What we did.

• Two patient focus groups were held later facilitated and recorded by Lewisham healthcare staff. These focus groups were included members of the Lewisham BME community across both genders
• These two focus groups were recorded and the audio recordings were transcribed verbatim and analysed using framework analysis in the same way as the staff focus groups. The Sheffield Hallam team met again to review the key themes from the patient and public data analysis, identifying commonalities between the themes across the focus groups and across the staff focus group themes.

What we did.

• A draft analysis of the early themes and educational framework were circulated to the Lewisham staff group in order to provide a member-check that the themes reflected the conversations that occurred across the three staff focus groups; this process was repeated for the public/patient analysis.

What does the research evidence in this field indicate?

What does the research evidence in this field indicate?

• Lit review findings here

What does the research evidence in this field indicate?

• Lit review findings here

What does the research evidence in this field indicate?

• Lit review findings here

What does the research evidence in this field indicate?

• Lit review findings here

What we found

What we found

It's time to think differently

It's time to think differently

• Co-design projects to look at methods to enhance the quality of consultations without increasing consultation time.
• Co-design of diabetes recipes for the BME community-community writing project.

It's time to think differently

• Do you want to add anything here?
• Co-design of diabetes recipes for the BME community-community writing project.

Recommendations

Time for discussion

Education and training

Education and training

• Advanced communication and motivational interviewing skills training.
• Prostate cancer, Breast cancer and diabetes in the BME community- and how is it different?
• Awareness of cancer and diabetes resources across minority groups.
• Skills for community engagement.

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