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This work package consolidates Arts & Humanities Medical Humanities and Design for Health expertise and accelerates this research to the benefit of the clinical sector and patients.

WP3-1: Does Design Care...? [3elfast]

WP3-1: Does Design Care...? [3elfast]: seeks to explore the use of design research methods to accelerate existing Arts & Humanities research towards unlocking impact pathways within the clinical sector. The AHRC’s Design Research for Change ‘Does Design Care...?’ programme will be delivered by Prof. Paul Rodgers (AHRC Design Champion) and his team.

WP3-2: Healthcare Collaboration Fund

WP3-2: Healthcare Collaboration Fund: with HSCNI partners, who in parallel apply for HSC R&D match funding for clinical service improvement influenced by Arts & Humanities research.

  • Real complaints: an alternative approach to evaluating complainant experience

    The NHS places significant emphasis on learning from complaints and therefore on improving the patient experience of making a complaint. However, current survey methods used within the NHS for evaluating the complaints process are failing to provide adequate evidence. The Real Complaints primary research offers the possibility of an alternative approach to evaluating complainant experience. Our project will thus draw on the Real Complaints primary research in a collaborative co-design process with both patient complainants and NHS complaints managers to develop a quality assurance tool to address this key data gap in the evaluation of complaint handling performance indicators.