If you arrived at this page via the QR code on a poster in your unit, you are likely to be having a site visit from either Laura or Tommer, who are collecting data for the evaluation. You may see them at team meetings or quietly observing activities and interactions around your unit, though they will do their best to not to get in your way and they won’t be observing any clinical interactions with women, babies, or their families.
Laura or Tommer may ask to speak with you and to hear your views on the leadership and safety culture where you work. They may also invite you to arrange a short informal interview at a time to suit you, or perhaps invite you to join a small group discussion with a few of your colleagues. Sharing your experiences and perspective will help us evaluate the impact of the programme more fully and accurately, however, it is completely up to you whether you take part.
What are the benefits and risks of taking part?
You will have the chance to share your views and experience of the leadership and culture on your unit. This will help provide learning to NHS England on how effectively the PCLP has been implemented and any potential challenges and impacts that have been identified.
We do not expect there to be any risks involved in taking part in this study. In the unlikely event that information is given that indicates potential harm to women or their babies, our team has a professional accountability and duty of care to report these issues to the relevant maternity Trust management team.
How will we use information about you?
Nothing we publish in relation to this evaluation will identify individuals or specific units or NHS Trusts. The information we collect during site visits will be anonymised, so anything you share will be given an anonymous identifier or code. We will keep all information about you safe and secure.
In the UK all research must follow both the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 rules. We may collect information about you including your name, role, place of work, and contact details. We will do this to make sure that we are interviewing the correct people for this study and are able to arrange an interview with you. People outside of the research team will not be able to see your name or contact details.
Our university policy states that we must keep all other research data securely on file for 10 years so that study findings can be checked. We need to manage your data in specific ways for the research to be reliable. This means that we won’t be able to let you see or change the data we hold about you. You can find out more about how we use your information by:
Asking any member of the research team or contacting the University of Birmingham Data Protection Office at dataprotection@contacts.bham.ac.uk
What will happen to the research information?
We will analyse the information from all the interviews, surveys, and observations to help build up a picture of different experiences of participating in the PCLP and any impacts from implementation of the learning. The results will be written up in a report to be shared with NHS England. We may also publish findings from the study in peer-reviewed medical journals or at conferences.
Who is organising and funding the research?
We are a team of health researchers based in the Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham. We have been commissioned to independently evaluate the Perinatal Culture and Leadership Programme by NHS England. This is an independent service evaluation with full ethical approval from the University of Birmingham Ethics Committee [ERN2116-Feb2024].