Table 3 Data collected for process evaluation

Delivery to the clusters

1. Collation of registers from QuIP meetings (30 meetings in total across 93 hospitals)

2. Collation of VLE usage logs

1. The names, roles and hospital of each of the attendees at the QuIP cluster meetings (2 meetings per cluster)

2. The level of usage of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) per hospital, determined by the number of visits / views logged by any staff member from each hospital

Response of the clusters

1. Online exit questionnaire

2. Ethnographic data

1. Free text responses regarding the positive and negative aspects of the programme

2. Observations and interviews with key staff in the 6 ethnographic sites

Delivery at the site level – QI intervention

1. Online exit questionnaire

1. Whether a stakeholder meeting was held (QI strategy 1)

2. Whether a QI team was formed and professional composition of any such team (QI strategy 2)

3. Whether and how data feedback occurred (QI strategy 3)

4. Whether run-charts were used (QI strategy 4)

5. Whether the patient pathway was segmented (QI strategy 5)

6. Whether the PDSA approach was used (QI strategy 6)

Response of the sites / individuals

1. Online exit questionnaire

2. Ethnographic data

1. Free text responses to 2 reflective questions:

If you were to be involved in EPOCH again, a) ‘what would you continue doing’ and b) ‘what would you do differently’?

2. Observations and interviews with key staff in the 6 ethnographic sites