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Mrs Deborah Baldie

Debbie Baldie is a registered nurse working part time as a Senior Practice Development Nurse within NHS Tayside . She is also currently undertaking a CSO funded part time PhD with SDHI. She has 4 years experience as a health service researcher working for the initial 3 years as a clinical research fellow within the Alliance for Self Care Research.

Debbie's clinical practice interests are:
development and performance
nursing leadership and management
using data for quality improvement and patient centred nursing care

Her research interests include:
Understanding the mechanisms/processes by which staff make improvements in practice
Understanding patients's experiences of health services and how they can be captured in useful ways in practice
Understanding how organisations can best support nurses to provide patient centred, safe and effective care


Her PhD is exploring how practitioners working within GP practices respond to and use patient feedback. the study is using mixed methods including a large national survey of Scottish GPs and Practice managers followed by 3 case studies if GP practice.

Debbie is also collaborating with others in SDHI and the School of Nursing and Midwifery to undertake the following research activities:

Further development of a patient experience survey tool which seeks to quantify the extent to which patients feel they are treated as an individual whilst in acute hospital care

Evaluation of the impact the National Leading Better Care (Senior Charge Nurse Review). This study is a longitudinal multi method design. Questionnaires and real time work sampling data are being used to ascertain if a programme of change leads to demonstrable changes in the role performance and well being of SCNs and/or changes in how post holders perceive their role, role support and job satisfaction.

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