Enabling primary healthcare service development with patient participation : a qualitative study of the internal facilitator role in Norway

AIM: To explore how primary healthcare professionals (HCPs) tasked with facilitating primary healthcare service development with patient participation perceived their role.

INTRODUCTION: Patient participation in health service development is a recognized means of ensuring that health services fit the public's needs. However, HCPs are often uncertain about how to involve patient representatives (PRs), and patient participation is poorly implemented. Inspired by the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services framework, we address the innovation (patient participation), its recipients (PRs, HCPs, supervisors, and senior managers), and its context (primary healthcare at a local and organizational level).

METHODS: We conducted semi-structured individual interviews with six HCPs working as internal facilitators in primary healthcare in four Norwegian municipalities. The data were analyzed by applying Braun and Clarke's reflexive thematic analysis.

FINDINGS: The themes show that to develop primary healthcare services with patient participation, facilitators must establish a network of PRs with relevant skills, promote involvement within their organization, engage HCPs favorable toward patient participation, and demonstrate to supervisors and senior managers its usefulness to win their support. Implementing patient participation must be a shared, collective responsibility of facilitators, supervisors, and senior management. However, supervisors and senior management appear not to fully understand the potential of involvement or how to support the facilitators. The facilitator role requires continuous and systematic work on multiple organizational levels to enable the development of health services with patient participation. It entails maintaining a network of persons with experiential knowledge, engaging HCPs, and having senior management's understanding and support.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

Primary health care research & development - 24(2023) vom: 27. Sept., Seite e57

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sandvin Olsson, Ann Britt [VerfasserIn]
Stenberg, Una [VerfasserIn]
Haaland-Øverby, Mette [VerfasserIn]
Slettebø, Tor [VerfasserIn]
Strøm, Anita [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Facilitation
Health service development
Implementation
Involvement in research
Journal Article
Patient participation
Primary healthcare
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.09.2023

Date Revised 17.10.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1017/S1463423623000488

funding:

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM362499845