Research & Education
Lindsey Lodge Hospice and Healthcare work with partners to implement and ensure that North Lincolnshire patients receive high quality, evidence-based care they need when time is becoming shorter.
To achieve this, Lindsey Lodge have set clear strategic ambitions for being ‘always there to care’ and participating in research activity can go some way to help achieve this.
There is a need for expanding the evidence base in hospice and palliative care, and research is something of an investment for the future. Without research we cannot ensure we are achieving the highest quality care or understand which hospice-based interventions are effective, how they work and which models of care may be best.
Research can, not only ensure the services we offer are clinically effective, but also cost-effective, which is all the more important for a charitable organisation where every pound counts. Research is the platform that formulates nationally recognised patient-centred outcome measures for patients and their families which allow us to benchmark our performance with other providers and give assurance to our patients and supporters that we do what we say we will do.
At Lindsey Lodge we welcome students from many settings, including medical, nursing and allied health professional, and provide learning opportunities and placements for trainees, or healthcare professionals with a particular interest in palliative and end of life care. We also encourage on-site shadowing opportunities for clinicians and other healthcare professionals to help share learning and develop skills.
Our Research Strategy
Embedded within Lindsey Lodge’s wider ambitions, our research strategy focuses on key initial priorities:
- Establish a Clinical Impact Group – embedding the organisation’s quality improvement projects with evidence based practice
- Establishing links with the Yorkshire and Humber Palliative Care Research Network and National Institute for Healthcare Research
- Exploring staff training in research governance (Good Clinical Practice)
- Reviewing organisation research structure and governance using the nationally recognised SORT tool
- Optimising opportunities to share our own areas of good practice with the hospice sector, e.g. conference posters, publications
- Exploring opportunities to be involved in other larger research projects
- Improving our outcomes data including optimising digital solutions
These priorities help provide focus and will continually develop in line with the wider hospice organisational priorities.
The Team
Research activity within Lindsey Lodge is considered everybody’s business. On a day to day basis, our research strategy is led by the following team members:
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Helen Turner
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Dr Lucy Adcock
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Sarah Hodge
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Sally Watson
