Official Title
Remote-by-Default Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Addressing the Micro-, Meso-, and Macro-level Challenges of a Radical New Service Model
Brief Summary

18 month study, funded by ESRC COVID-19 research fund. The aim is to explore and support the rapid shift from face-to-face to remote (telephone and video) conversations in primary care. There are three components: a study of clinical interactions and decision making (micro); four locality-based organisational case studies of new models of care (meso); abd a a study of how digital innovation can support NHS infrastructure and vice versa (macro).

Detailed Description

18 month study, funded by ESRC COVID-19 research fund. The aim is to explore and support the
rapid shift from face-to-face to remote (telephone and video) conversations in primary care.
There are three components: a study of clinical interactions and decision making (micro);
four locality-based organisational case studies of new models of care (meso); abd a a study
of how digital innovation can support NHS infrastructure and vice versa (macro). The methods
are mainly qualitative (interviews, virtual ethnography, analysis of documents,
micro-analysis of conversations) and are designed to inform action research.

Key deliverables:

At least two evidence-based assessment tools: qualitative (questions for remote assessment of
breathlessness) and quantitative (a COVID-19-specific early warning score)

Transferable lessons about how to achieve rapid spread and scale-up, spread in real time
through our extensive intersectoral networks

Strengthened infrastructure for supporting digital innovation in the NHS

Completed
COVID-19
Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Inclusion criteria for interviews

Willing and able to give informed consent for participation

Aged 18 years or above

Staff involved in delivering remote-by-default services in the frontline or 'back offices'

Patients/carers who have crossed paths with primary care services during the Covid
pandemic.

Pharmacy case studies:

Staff involved in delivering remote pharmacist consultation services in the frontline or
'back offices'

Patients/carers who have crossed paths with community pharmacy primary care services during
the COVID-19 pandemic.

Inclusion criteria for video and telephone consultations

Patients who have remote primary care consultation regarding symptoms associated with
COVID-19 and their clinicians (based in Oxford/Thames Valley) who have agreed to
participate in the study

Inclusion criteria for focus groups

Patients that have experienced self-reported 'long Covid' symptoms (for patient only focus
groups)

Clinicians that have experienced self-reported 'long Covid' symptoms (for clinician only
focus groups)

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients or clinicians who are too ill to be interviewed

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Eligibility Gender
All
Eligibility Age
Minimum: 18 Years ~ Maximum: N/A
Countries
United Kingdom
Locations

University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

University of Oxford
NCT Number
MeSH Terms
COVID-19