{"id":5413,"date":"2024-05-22T19:06:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/?page_id=5413"},"modified":"2026-01-08T08:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:53:25","slug":"sarah-chessell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/about\/programme-group\/sarah-chessell\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Chessell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah is a senior leader with expertise in health and care strategy, research, innovation, improvement and clinical audit.\u00a0 Sarah has a pragmatic, reflective and facilitative style and loves networking and meeting like-minded people who embrace patient centred approaches, change and innovation.<\/p>\n

Sarah is currently Head of Research and Innovation at NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board (ICB), providing facilitative advice, tailored support for prioritised research and innovation projects, resources and tools, and the innovation education programme run in partnership with Health Sciences University.\u00a0 Sarah is also Lead for the Dorset Innovation Hub (hosted by NHS Dorset) and is responsible for the strategic oversight of the system partnership working and delivery.\u00a0 To find out more go to:\u00a0 Innovation \u2013 Our Dorset ICS Innovation<\/a><\/p>\n

Sarah uses over thirty years\u2019 experience working in local and national roles to support her system wide thinking approach through the golden thread of quality including: research, innovation, clinical audit, improvement and clinical ethics.\u00a0 Sarah advocates patient centred care using near-real time feedback and considers that the golden thread of quality is integral to all health and care staffs\u2019 roles and central to enabling patient centred approaches.\u00a0 Sarah encourages facilitative approaches to projects, advocating the use of the \u2018right approach, involving the right people, right tool and at the right time\u2019 to enable change to be undertaken to improve the outcomes and experiences of patients where necessary.<\/p>\n

Sarah is a post graduate researcher, undertaking her doctoral research with Bournemouth University focused on patient centred sustainable near-real time feedback. \u00a0Sarah is the chief investigator for the CREATE study (A mixed-methods C<\/strong>ritical R<\/strong>ealist evaluation of the E<\/strong>ffect over time of near real-time feedback measures on patients as part of an organisational A<\/strong>pproach T<\/strong>o improving patient outcomes and E<\/strong>xperience).\u00a0 The CREATE study commenced in September 2025 with planned completion completing in August 2026. Sarah was also the principal investigator for the research study \u201cAn evaluation of a real-time survey for improving patients\u2019 experiences of the relational aspects of care (After Francis)\u201d and has published the paper Staff perspectives of a near-real time feedback intervention to improve patient experiences<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sarah is a research fellow in the Centre for Workforce Systems and Innovation (CWSI), Health Sciences University.\u00a0 Sarah has a BA in Post Compulsory Education (Southampton University (2006)) and completed the Ashridge National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leadership Programme (2017).<\/p>\n

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