Information for hospital staff who want to know more about participating in our case studies.

Information about participating in our case studies, for people who have used an SDEC or who care for someone who has.

We begin on-site case studies

Our third work package is getting underway. You might have noticed our main landing page has changed in preparation!

In the package of work, we are going beyond an aggregated, national level investigation of SDECs' performance and of how they work. We have recruiting 8 SDECs that we will visit and observe to gain a one-to-one understanding of the experience of service users and staff.

Fortunately, we have had enough expressions of interest from a diversity of SDECs so we are now in the process of sorting agreements; crossing the Ts and dotting the lower-case Js.

Even if your SDEC is not involved in the case studies, you can take a look at the participant information sheet that is available on our main landing page.

We submit our first outputs for academic review

Our first work package was all about clarifying our understanding of SDEC: what they are, where they are, what they achieve, and how they do it.

We are submitting two academic reports describing our work. The first investigated the published definitions and descriptions of SDEC to ask do we really know what SDECs are? (work package 1a). The second described how we rigorously developed a classification system for SDECs, and we wrote about the what insights it revealed to us (work package 1b).

The academic review and publication process takes time but we will keep you informed of any progress.

Our "taxonomy" explainer

We are soon to publish our work about developing a system for describing and relating same-day emergency care (SDEC) implementations, i.e. an SDEC classification system. But what makes a good-quality classification system, and how will it help us reduce avoidable admission?

You can read our explainer on our new blog. We will follow up with a blog presenting our classification system, shortly.