A Day at the Races: The story of the LIMBIC project (including DVD)
2010 Conference
Abstract:
Learning to Improve the Management of Back Pain in the Community (LIMBIC) is a project funded by the Health Foundation and hosted by Bournemouth University’s School of Health and Social Care. It has aimed to develop ways of sharing best practice and engage all parties within primary health care in open communication via eight half-day workshops. This involved nine general practice teams and their patient representatives as well as researchers and clinical experts.
Practice teams worked as groups looking at services and testing ways of establishing improvements in service provision using Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles. This incorporated receptionists, GPs, nurses, patients and managers. There was also a variety of talks from health professionals along with activities that engaged all.
As the project drew to a close the teams and the researchers gathered together to make a film about their experience, carrying out activities which caught the flavour and vibrancy of the project in a DVD called A Day at the Races. The DVD captures the project from a variety of professional and service user perspectives.
Steve Williams, one of the patient representatives will give a brief introduction to the DVD. Steve says: “I personally found the project of enormous benefit and have gained knowledge, understanding and skills to manage my condition a lot more positively, enabling and empowering me to have a vastly different outlook in this area.”
Authors
Campion-Smith ~ Charles
GP and Senior Clinical Advisor in Primary Care, Bournemouth University Charles is a GP in Dorset, Senior Clinical Advisor in Primary Care at Bournemouth University and co-Principal Investigator for the Learning to Improve the Management of Back Pain in the Community (LIMBIC) Project.
View all articles by this authorCarr ~ Eloise
Eloise Carr is Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Canada. A nurse by background, she is strongly committed to improving pain management through collaborative research and practice. Her pain research interests include postoperative pain management, back pain and interprofessional education.
View all articles by this authorWilliams ~ Steve
Patient Representative, Bournemouth University Steve Williams has been involved in the Learning to Improve the Management of Back Pain in the Community (LIMBIC) project for 18 months as a patient representative with a long history of back associated disorders. His background is forces based and he is currently a facilities manager within the education sector.
View all articles by this authorWorswick ~ Louise
Louise Worswick is a researcher at the School of Health and Social Care at Bournemouth University. Louise has expertise in qualitative research including focus group and interview methods. A PhD student and former health service manager and clinician, her interests are quality improvement, primary care and service user involvement. Her doctoral research explores the experiences of service users involved in health research.
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