Social care - defining, evidencing and improving: mixed-methods qualitative study

4. Aim and objectives

The aim of this research was to explore and critically examine how evidence-informed understandings of 'good' social care can be embedded into the design, implementation and continuous improvement of the National Care Service. This was broken down into three objectives:

1. Conduct individual interviews with stakeholders involved in the development of the 'The Healthcare Framework for Adults Living in Care Homes' to critically examine how policy makers conceptualise, find, and use evidence as part of the design and implementation of social care policy.

2. Host two cross-sector, creative research workshops to explore stakeholders' views on what 'good' social care looks like and how it can be evidenced, and to co-create a distinctly social care vision for evidence-informed improvement.

3. Combine the learning from objectives 1 and 2 to offer insights that inform the process of social care reform, including future NCS policy development and the design of a national improvement approach for social care.