Collaborative healthcare remodelling through sequential simulation: a patient and front-line staff perspective (27 June 2016)

Summary

The Department of health funded an initiative in 2013 to pioneer new approaches that would create a more integrated form of care. In order to receive funding, local Clinical Commissioning Groups were required to engage a range of stakeholders in a practical approach that generated the development of an integrated model of care. To fulfil this requirement, two sequential simulation (SqS) workshops were designed using real patient scenarios from the locality, covering the areas of general practice, community health and adult social care. They were attended by a diverse group of patients and frontline staff.

In pre- and post-workshop questionnaires, attendees strongly agreed that they had had an opportunity to contribute to all discussions and raise questions, concerns and ideas (100%). Knowledge of current and new models of care was vastly improved and the opportunity to share information and to network was valued. The SqS approach seen as breaking professional barriers by 100% of attendees.