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Carol Sinnott

NIHR Clinical Lecturer in General Practice, GP, Clinical Lead for HSR at Eastern CRN

The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute, University of Cambridge

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    • Thanks for joining this SIG group I am trying to bring together healthcare providers social care providers and innovators in technology to discuss how we can provide healthcare at home

  • Carol Sinnott posted a new activity comment 3 years, 1 month ago

    This looks like a relevant concept Matthew- both for relationships within practices and between GPs and outside teams- many thanks for the signpost!

  • Carol Sinnott posted a new activity comment 3 years, 1 month ago

    Many thanks Rammya- much appreciated. The uptake is slow- possibly due to competing pressures on GPs, but also due to possible confusion around the term operational failures! Think we will have to develop a more intuitive term for the next round.

  • Carol Sinnott posted an update in the group Primary Care 3 years, 1 month ago

    In our work at THIS Institute, we are trying to understand operational problems in general practice using GPs’ perspectives. We are currently running a survey seeking GPs’ views on which operational problems in general practiceto prioritize for future improvement research. The problems listed in the survey are all drawn from our previous r…Read more

    • Thanks Carol – I’ve just done it and shared with my networks. It’s certainly enlightening to see on paper all the various pushes and pulls there are on GP time. No wonder we are a stressed out bunch!

      I’m also copying the definition of operational problems/ interruptions used in the study, so the group have a better idea of what the survey…Read more

      • Many thanks Rammya- much appreciated. The uptake is slow- possibly due to competing pressures on GPs, but also due to possible confusion around the term operational failures! Think we will have to develop a more intuitive term for the next round.

    • Hi Carol,
      I hope you might be able to start taking into account the quality of ‘Relational Coordination’ amongst doctors, and with others – it’s a crucial variable in influencing positive outcomes, it appears.
      Poor levels of ‘Relational Coordination’ is an important operational failure, I presume?
      Accurate information is one of the key elements…Read more

      • This looks like a relevant concept Matthew- both for relationships within practices and between GPs and outside teams- many thanks for the signpost!

  • Carol Sinnott posted a new activity comment 3 years, 2 months ago

    Enjoying this conversation on the quest for QI approaches that are more befitting of general practice than those traditionally employed in the very different context of hospital medicine!
    In our work at THIS Institute, we are trying to understand operational problems in general practice using GPs’ perspectives.
    We currently have a live survey…Read more

  • Carol Sinnott posted a new activity comment 3 years, 2 months ago

    Really looking forward to seeing /hearing the recording! Have to admit that I’m not familiar with any of the literature you mention Matthew but it all sounds quite relevent to the mission of encouraging self-management, shared-decision making and person centred care.

    • The work around relationship-centred care and Relational Co-ordination that Jody Hoffer Gittell, Edgar Schein and Anthony Suchman are involved in certainly feels very relevant to this.
      Recording should be coming round on Wednesday, I think…

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