The Operating Theatre journal April 2021

Sheffield researchers to lead major study
seeking to understand what matters most
to patients with colitis and Crohn’s disease
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Professor Alan Lobo (centre) and Professor Danny Hind (far right) outside the
Royal Hallamshire Hospital with nurses and practitioners from Sheffield’s
specialist inflammatory bowel centre
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals to lead £450,000 grant award that aims to
change the way healthcare services respond to the needs of those living
with inflammatory bowel disease
Researchers from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are
to play a leading role in a major new study that aims to change the
way healthcare services respond to the needs of people living with
inflammatory bowel disease by putting the patient’s voice at the centre
of care.
The £450,000 grant award, which is being funded by the Health
Foundation’s Common Ambition programme, seeks to create
partnerships, led by people living with inflammatory bowel disease, to
co-design future services and improve care.
It is one of four national projects selected from over 350 national
applicants.
The research will be led by Professor Alan Lobo, Consultant
Gastroenterologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in partnership with
the University of Sheffield and Crohn’s and Colitis UK.
It will build on previous research awards given to Professor Lobo and his
team at Sheffield’s inflammatory bowel disease centre that put patients
at the heart of decision-making.
The study evaluation will be led by Professor Dan Hind of the University
of Sheffield’s School of Health and Related Research, who are recognised
for their world leading health services research.
Advances in treatments of inflammatory bowel disease have been
rapid in the past few years, with more and more new drugs and
affordable therapies becoming available. This includes powerful drugs
that target the immune response and biosimilar drugs, newer versions
of original licensed biological drugs, that can be given to patients in
hospital through a drip or at home by injection pen. However, there
remain limitations in patients’ opportunities to express to healthcare
professionals what is important to them and to develop personalised
care.
During the three-year study, the team will actively engage with
lesser heard voices in the community, helped by independent charity
Voiceability, including those from ethnic minority backgrounds,
disadvantaged groups and women’s groups, to understand what matters
to them.
All 4,000 patients attending Sheffield’s specialist inflammatory bowel
centre will be invited to participate in a way that is accessible to them.
There will also be an app to deliver real time information from people
with inflammatory bowel disease to clinicians.
Professor Alan Lobo, Consultant Gastroenterologist at Sheffield Teaching
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and chief investigator of the study, said:
“This is a really exciting project which could represent a radical shift
in the way groups of healthcare services engage with patients. As one
of the largest inflammatory bowel disease centres in the country, this
is also excellent news #PSPP21 for Sheffield as we can recruit large numbers of
patients and engage with a huge and diverse population. We will be
communicating with all our patients about the study in due course, and
reaching out to lesser 5 CPD heard credits voices to further understand what matters
to them.”
Inflammatory bowel disease affects 300,000 people in the UK (or
roughly 1 in every 210 people). Crohn’s and colitis disease are the two
main forms of inflammatory bowel disease.
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