Signifier and duration of interview | Perspective
(discipline and level) | Level of Knowledge and personal stance | Quality of interview | Most important part of interview |
A
40 mins | Strategic national regional and operational
Urban and rural
Nursing | High
Pro FHN
Suggested urban pilot | Very good information. Frameworks suggested | Section on Integrated approach and framework towards end of interview. |
B
30mins | Health Council Local | Moderate
Sees nursing as looking after sick | Good in places. Concerned about plethora of nurses and titles and specialisms | Section on non-medical model and notion of family. |
C
45mins | Strategic to regional and operational
Nursing | Moderate
Pro HV
Anti Dr | Good
Tuned into the morale of D/Ns feeling devalued. | Section at the beginning on the strengths and use of models and records. |
D
30mins | LHCC Urban
Nursing | Moderate
Aware of deprivation and poverty issues. Post code health | Good
Sees need for more integration to avoid duplications | Section on education of community staff and section on the difficulties of the DN |
E
25mins | Local
Nursing | Low
Lack of knowledge | Average
Emphasised potential for confusion amongst public. | Section on beefing up general skills of community nurses. |
F
60 mins | Strategic operational and national
Rural and urban
Allied health professional | High
Good intellectual approach to the issues. Analytical problem solver
Learning from other contexts | Very good
Gave several leads for us to follow up. Keen on nursing development. | Section on Strengths and description of cohesive services. Section on Education and Multi-disciplinary approach and final section on FHN. |
G
20 mins | Health council
Local | Low Lack of knowledge
acute and primary care differences | Average
Enthusiastic for nurse-led services | Section on patient assessment towards end. |
H
25mins | LHCC urban
Medical | Moderate
Concerned about national projects which siphon off good staff | Average
Concerned about pace of change. Curative and treatment elements of care | Section on weaknesses re conflict and final statement about pace of change. |
I
50mins | Strategic operational and national
Nursing | High
Concerned about professional boundaries and need to free people's minds | Good
Gave insight into matching workforce with population needs | Section on weaknesses and also one on up-skilling |
J
35mins | LHCC
Remote and urban
Allied health professions | Moderate
Optimum use of workforce a concern | Good
Gave insight into notion of corporate caseload | Section on strengths and section on the FHN role as an aid to recruitment |
K
30mins | LHCC
Urban & rural
Nursing | Moderate
Pro HV perspective | Average
Gave some insight into needs assessment and staffing levels | Section on skills of FHN at end and section on staffing levels. |
L
25mins | Local rural
Nursing | High Keen on developing existing services and thinks DN service should be given a boost. | Good
Appreciates value of distance learning
Strength of existing service | Section on distance learning and section on FHN |
M
50 mins | LHCC
Urban
Nursing | High Concerned about short-termism in the NHS.
Very pro nurse | Good
Raised issue of supervision and concern about just keeping changing nursing courses | Section on education and FHN at the end and section on need to roll out short term projects which work well. |
N
45mins | Strategic and operational urban
Nursing | High
Need to integrate education practice and research | Very good
Raised awareness of care recording systems.
Concerned about how FHN would add to service. Need to
conduct service reviews to match workforce to patient needs | Section on reviews of service and section criticising literature available |
O
25mins | Health council
Local | Moderate
Still coming to terms with problems faced as a carer herself. | Good
Brought to awareness the patient line. | Section on holism as it brings in personal experiences and ideological beliefs. |
P
20mins | LHCC semi rural
Nursing | Low
Pro HV
Anti FHN without any real argument | Average
Raised issue that FHN was set up to solve recruitment problem only | Section at the beginning of the FHN conversation. |
Q
20 mins | LHCC and national primary care
Medical | Moderate
Concerned with out of hours services and reshaping services | Good
Raised issue to workforce organisation | Section on practice attachment and geographic working |
R
55mins | LHCC
Operational educational and developmental
Nursing | High
Concerned about patient expectations | Good
Provided insight into a framework for staff development | Section on demands under weaknesses and section on frameworks. |
S
45mins | Strategic operational and national
Nursing | High
Concerned to match workforce skill mix to patient need
Pro FHN | Very good
Provided insight into use of Arbuthnott
Problems of remote nursing
Links with mental health nursing & gaps in education | Section
On Arbuthnott and bench marking also contact economist cited.
Section on FHN |