At last - the charting phase of Framework is now finished.  All 30 transcripts are now encapsulated/summarised within 5 charts/spreadsheets.  Seems to have been a long haul to get to this stage, but I can now start to look at drawing out themes.  Initially this will be those themes which fit into Kleinman's Semantic Illness Network and the 5 Parts of the Illness Experience.  It will then be possible to highlight which parts of the data do not fit within Kleinman's Explanatory Model Framework.  I will then be able to offer up a discussion as to whether Kleinman has provided a good theoretical framework for this qualitative study, or not; and then also draw out themes from the data.  So lots to do but so good to be moving on with the data analysis.

One year since I last attended a Health Foundation event.  The second event of 2007 was on the day after I started my new job at Health E1 so not a good time to go!  This time the Health Foundation fellows were asked to contribute 75% of the day - poster presentations summarising our work and the implications of it - see attachment for my efforts.

As always an excellent day - always so good to meet up with colleagues, the peer support and meeting of 'friends' is so supportive and necessary for my academic life.  The day was entitled 'Translating research into improvement' i.e. an opportunity for fellows to share their emerging research findings, explore their potential impact and create solutions to shared challenges.  The day was headed up by an excellent interactive presentation about leading and implementing service improvement within an organisation - Alder Hey - an organisation which has undergone a traumatic time but has learnt from its past to develop a future which looks promising and exciting.  There was also an opportunity to practise using action learning sets - something which I had previously learnt about and practised on the Kings Fund course - although I have to admit was something I had forgotten all about.  It is actually quite amazing how everything all seems to link up eventually - like lots of dots in a giant circle - all the disparate parts join up in the end in some way or another.