Stage 1: ideas generation

Participants were sent an email containing information about the GCM project, and asked to complete the following focus prompt/incomplete sentences as many times as they wished, creating a new statement for each idea:

A specific way the Therapy Services Quality Improvement Network could support my team in their day-to-day work to improve patient outcomes and experience is….

The email contained a secure web link to the groupwisdom platform, which participants could access via a unique username and password generated by the GCM project team. Participants who wanted to take part in the ideas generation phase but did not wish to log on to the online platform were invited to submit their ideas in paper format or via return email. These responses were uploaded onto the groupwisdom platform by LR using the participant’s unique username and password.

Interim analysis of these statements by the project team enabled us to identify the point at which data saturation was achieved²⁰ and no new ideas were being generated through the additional qualitative responses received.¹⁴