Preparing to launch!
Onboarding and planning workshop
Yesterday we welcomed Kerry Rose Watts and Anna Lee to Decently HQ as part of the next stage of the Melo™ pilot with Salford Royal.
Kerry and Anna - both Senior Assistant Psychologists at Salford - will join the project team to help deliver the implementation and evaluation phase of the project.
We spent the day planning out various aspects of the evaluation from staff awareness and comms, training and support, evaluation methodology for collection of baseline and ongoing data, health economics modelling and ultimately how we will work together as an extended ‘hybrid’ team over the coming months to implement, assess and evolve the way in which Melo™ can support staff and patients.
Ensuring a robust approach for evaluation - aligned to the NICE Evidence Standards Framework - is a key piece of the overall jigsaw of how we are building Melo™ for longer term spread and adoption across the NHS.
James Chapman, co-founder and Product lead:
“The funding from the Northern Care Alliance - which we won through the Salford Innovation & Improvement fund - not only provides us with the ability to deliver the pilot but it also allowed the creation of dedicated research posts within the hospital. Having Kerry and Anna on the ground will effectively give us ‘eyes and ears’ to learn in real-time how Melo™ is making a difference.
No amount of surveys, focus groups or visits from ourselves would come close to the rich feedback and insights we will get by delivering the pilot in this way.
We are really proud of the partnership approach we are building together and look forward to working with Kerry and Anna (and the wider Salford team) over the coming months”.
Kerry Rose Watts, Research assistant for the pilot:
“The Melo™ pilot is a really exciting initiative to see how we can work together to share our clinical experiences and help better shape future services for our patients.
Working with the Decently team it is clear they want to put our patients, families, carer's and staff at the heart of everything they do to make a significant difference to the care they receive. I hope for the pilot to demonstrate how we can start to make sense of behaviours that challenge.
From a research point of view, it is exciting to be at the stage of getting hands-on with the product, working with the Decently team and the ward staff to deliver the pilot”.
