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We've written a new blog. The blog reviews a recent publication by one of our colleagues that discusses what we might already know about the performance of SDECs.

You can read the blog on our website:

sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

ℹ️ Upcoming work:

WP3a will involve observations of SDEC services around the country, and interviews with patients and staff.

Our plans have been developed through discussions with patients, stakeholders, hospitals, and research support networks. We will submit our plans for ethical review soon.

3️⃣In time for the beginning of our third work package, we'll be welcoming two new qualitative researchers to the team.

Both researchers will support Professor Fiona Sampson with observations of SDEC services around the country, and interviews with patients and staff.

2️⃣We spent the summer surveying type-1 EDs in England, asking about their SDEC services.

We are grateful to the kind and patient staff who took the time to complete our online survey.

We are now busy processing the responses to find a meaningful and helpful way to classify SDEC services.

1️⃣ We now have the data needed for the first national evaluation of SDEC services in England

WP2a is a study describing trends in health outcomes over time and between hospitals. WP2b is a cost-consequential study describing the policy-level effect of SDEC services on policy outcomes and NHS costs.

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