Table 2 Recruitment and retention of settings in the English arm of the IMPACT study

No. of invitations to participate

20 + (Palliative care champions, academic GPs, GP registrars)

Negotiations with care home chain (3 meetings) resulting in 3 Expressions of Interest

2 recruited through a specialist Dementias & neurodegenerative diseases research network (DeNDRoN)

2 recruited through a Clinical Research Network (CLRN)

2 recruited through CLRN

No. recruited

0

2

2

2

2

Baseline assessments

-

2

2

2

2

Baseline meetings

-

With managers not staff

With staff and team leader

With staff and management

With staff and management

Changes planned

-

• Workshops with staff on End of Life Care

• Standardise use of pain scales

• Optimising IT use

• Ring-fencing beds

See Table 3

See Table 3

Follow up

-

2

2

2

Content of follow up

-

Both Care Homes dropped out

Both sites completed follow up QI profile and interviews

Both sites completed follow up QI profile and interviews

Both sites completed follow up QI profile and part in interviews

Continued quality improvement…

-

1

1

-

No plans

Continuing development

Continuing development