Virtual Visit to Shared Lives Stoke
Upon completion of collaborative engagement with Shared Lives Stoke, Healthwatch Stoke-on-Trent organised an announced virtual visit to Shared Lives Stoke between 19 July 2021 and 23 July 2021. The rationale for the virtual visit was to capture the experiences and opinions of managers, service users, carers, professionals and relatives associated with the scheme, to identify what works well, not so well and what could be improved to enhance the quality of service delivery. The manager of Shared Lives Stoke disseminated visit details to carers, service users, professionals and relatives to assemble interested participants. To engage and collect the respective grouped experiences qualitative research was utilised by way of questionnaires and semi-structured interviews.