Indicator | Teams | Comments | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||
Support infrastructure established in team administration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Administrative support helped with ethics and governance applications. Minutes taken in meetings by administrators helped action planning. | |||
Links developed to management in organisation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Teams that included managers, enabled protected time for practitioners. In Team five, management links enabled connections to quality improvement cycles in the PCT. | |||
Arrangements were in place for team members to take protected time to undertake research | ✓ | ✓ | *✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Having someone to cover clinical duties whilst engaged in research was a key determinant of enabling protected time for research to be undertaken. * Nurses had difficulty in Team three, and finding locum cover was a particular problem for the pharmacists in Team six. A GP in Team three had difficulty obtaining locum cover but was able to achieve protected time to do research by extending her part time hours. |