Project Title

Implementing change to prevent patient deaths by suicide: a knowledge exchange secondment

Research Focus

Knowledge Exchange Secondment with Department of Health

Funder & Dates

ESCR Impact Acceleration Secondment (Colette Ramsey)

Principal Investigator or Primary Supervisor

Dr Karen Galway (PI)

Co-Investigators or additional supervisors

Professor Gavin Davidson, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work

Research Fellow(s) or PhD Student

Colette Ramsey, PhD Student

Name of External Partner Organisations

Department of Health, Northern Ireland

Description of Project:

Aim; Methods; Expected Outcomes

Aims

1. To maximise the opportunity and synergy between policy development needs and relevant timely research findings.

2. To create space and time to share deeper insights arising from two key aspects of analyses; - formal written records from SAIs that inform changes in services and - Insights from focus groups with mental health professionals regarding the culture associated with implementation of change.

3. To contribute to development of new policies and/or processes for encouraging change in the culture of mental health service provision.

Activities

1. Presenting research findings with open Q&A sessions to target groups/individuals working on policy.

2. Presenting research findings with open Q&A to target groups/individuals working on implementing changes in practice.

Expected outcomes

1. To produce an infographic for wide dissemination across relevant stakeholders in mental health service and policy settings.

2. To translate research findings for implementation through influencing policy and practice.

Links/URLs to external pages

Ramsey, C., Galway, K. and Davidson, G., 2022. Implementing changes after patient suicides in mental health services: A systematic review. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(2), pp.415-431. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13332