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Management Seminar by Dr. Alison Smart (University of Aberdeen)
Clinical success does not always lead to adoption - a study of the pilot outsourcing of glaucoma monitoring
Wednesday 14th November at 14.30hrs in MAC MR304
Abstract: The number of patients with chronic eye disease who require regular monitoring and treatment is increasing. For example, in the UK glaucoma results in more than one million NHS outpatient visits to hospital eye services every year. The capacity for hospital-based glaucoma care is not rising in line with demand, and alternative models of monitoring of glaucoma patients are being sought. One alternative model piloted in the Grampian Health Board investigated moving the monitoring of patients with stable glaucoma from a hospital eye clinic to community-based optometry practices. The intervention was initiated by the hospital eye clinic and built upon a previous initiative working with local optometrists. The local optometrists all volunteered to be part of the initiative. As part of the growing links between the Business School and the Health Services Research Unit, an assessment of the intervention was carried out by a team of researchers from the two areas (also including Dr Raluca Bunduchi, Professor Lorna McKee, Dr Kathryn Charles and Professor Augusto Azuro Blanco). This talk will describe the nature of the intervention, the findings from interviews with stakeholders from the Ophthalmology Clinic and the Optometrists involved, and use new institutional theory to explore why the intervention, despite being a clinical and technological success, was not extended more broadly.
- Speaker
- Dr. Alison Smart (University of Aberdeen)
- Hosted by
- Management Studies
- Venue
- Dr. Alison Smart (University of Aberdeen) Clinical success does not always lead to adoption - a study of the pilot outsourcing of glaucoma monitoring Wednesday 14th November at 14.30hrs in MAC MR304