Project Updates

Check our progress to date...

WP1 and WP2

Currently these work packages have ethical approval and are due to receive access to data in June. Further updates expected in the summer of 2025.

WP3

We have ethical approval and health research authority approval granted, pending CAG approval for this work package. CAG approval is expected to be granted June 2025...

WP4

Recruitment has begun for WP 4

We're pleased to announce we are now recruiting for structured interviews about how organisations minimise long lies before arriving to hospital.

If you are an Ambulance Service Clinical Lead/ Emergency Operations Centre Operator OR a care home, residential, or nursing home manager working in the UK and want to be involved in a 30-40 minute structured interview about how your organisation responds to patients who have had a long lie, please contact us via longlies@sheffield.ac.uk

This will inform a national survey coming soon...

WP5

We have obtained ethical and health research authority approval and are planning on opening this study for recruitment soon in Yorkshire and Humber, and two other ambulance service regions. Please contact us if you would like to submit an Expression of Interest about participating.

We are interested in speaking to stakeholders involved in:

Community falls response teams
paramedics or 999 call handlers with experience of providing advice or care for falls (including long lies)
Residential and care home staff
Hospital staff (ED, frailty wards and acute medicine)

Ethical approval was granted by University of Sheffield Research Ethics Committee (UOS REC 061049) and HRA approval (IRAS 350357).

WP6

We have ethical approval and health research authority approval granted, pending CAG approval for this work package.

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