Lucy Johnston
Lucy Johnston

Mrs Lucy Johnston

Senior Research Fellow

Biography

Lucy joined ENU with an established reputation in the design and delivery of applied research in health and social care. Over the last 30 years she has conducted service reviews, evaluation, research and VFM audits. Lucy has held research posts at NHS Lothian Health Council, Audit Scotland, Volunteer Development Scotland and prior to joining Napier was a self- employed researcher/research consultant. Clients included, Scottish National and Local Government and third sector social care organisations. She joined Edinburgh Napier University School of Health and Social Care in January 2014 as the lead Research Fellow for the five year Macmillan Funded National Evaluation of TCAT - Transforming Care After Treatment. Since 2019 Lucy has led and developed a large portfolio of research and innovation projects focusing on care homes, data collection and re-use, the wellbeing of staff and practice support.

Themes

Esteem

Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • International Public Policy Observatory on COVID-19 (IPPO, 2021) on the mental wellbeing of staff in care homes
  • Covid-19 Register of Experts to support the Scottish Parliament in its scrutiny of Covid-19
  • Invited contributor to EHRC round table for priority setting for health and social care (2020)

 

Invited Speaker

  • NHS Lothian Care Home Strategic Oversight Committee
  • Scottish Government Wellbeing Network
  • Healthy Aging Innovation Cluster

 

Media Activity

  • Associate feature: The vast potential for Scotland’s care home sector that lies in data-led innovation

 

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Avoiding Burnout of the Care Home Workforce During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Sharing National Learning and Local Initiatives

Journal Article
Johnston, L., Malcolm, C., Rambabu, L., Hockley, J., & Shenkin, S. D. (2021)
Avoiding Burnout of the Care Home Workforce During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Sharing National Learning and Local Initiatives. Age and ageing, 50(Suppl. 1), i12-i42. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afab030.62
Introduction COVID-19 in care homes has heightened the risk of staff burnout, undermining already problematic staff retention and low morale. There has been an associated prol...

Online Supportive Conversations and Reflection Sessions (OSCaRS): A Feasibility Studywith care home staff during the pandemic

Report
Johnston, L. (2021)
Online Supportive Conversations and Reflection Sessions (OSCaRS): A Feasibility Studywith care home staff during the pandemic. Edinburgh: CSO
A study in three cares homes was undertaken to assess the feasibility of providing online emotional support and practice-based learning on death/dying and end of life care dur...

Avoiding Burnout of Care Home Workforce

Report
Johnston, L., & Malcolm, C. (2021)
Avoiding Burnout of Care Home Workforce. Edinburgh: CSO
This small study focused on the resources available and used to support the wellbeing and mental health of frontline care workers (FCW) in care homes for older people. It had ...

Online Supportive Conversations and Reflective Sessions (OSCaRS) in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic

Presentation / Conference
Johnston, L., Shenkin, S., Hockley, J., & Watson, J. (2020, November)
Online Supportive Conversations and Reflective Sessions (OSCaRS) in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Poster presented at BGS Autumn Meeting, Online

Avoiding burnout of the care home workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: sharing national learning and local initiatiatives

Presentation / Conference
Johnston, L., Malcolm, C., Rambabu, L., Hockley, J., & Shenkin, S. (2020, November)
Avoiding burnout of the care home workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: sharing national learning and local initiatiatives. Poster presented at BGS Autumn Meeting 2020, Online

Developing a Data & Innovation Platform for Care Homes In Scotland

Presentation / Conference
Johnston, L., Hockley, J., & Henderson, D. (2020, October)
Developing a Data & Innovation Platform for Care Homes In Scotland. Presented at EuGMS Congress 2020, Online
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the need for reliable, real time data on the care of older people. We aimed to identify current data availabi...

Supporting the resilience and retention of frontline care workers in care homes for older people: A scoping review and thematic synthesis

Working Paper
Johnston, L., Malcolm, C., Rambabu, L., Hockley, J., & Shenkin, S. D. Supporting the resilience and retention of frontline care workers in care homes for older people: A scoping review and thematic synthesis

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Johnston, L., Malcolm, C., Rambabu, L., Hockley, J., & Shenkin, S. D. Supporting the resilience and retention of frontline care workers in care homes for older people: A scoping review and thematic synthesis
The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the need to ensure that strategic and operational approaches to retain high quality, resilient frontline care home workers, who are not re...

The Development of a Care Home Data Platform in Scotland: Insights from the Care Home Innovation Partnership, Lothian

Working Paper
Johnston, L., Hockley, J., Henderson, D. A., & Shenkin, S. D. The Development of a Care Home Data Platform in Scotland: Insights from the Care Home Innovation Partnership, Lothian

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Johnston, L., Hockley, J., Henderson, D. A., & Shenkin, S. D. The Development of a Care Home Data Platform in Scotland: Insights from the Care Home Innovation Partnership, Lothian
Care homes collect a large amount of data about their residents, and the care provided, but there is a lack of consistency in how this information is collected. There is also ...

Beneath the ‘PROM’? What people affected by cancer really value from services: thematic synthesis of findings from two national cancer programmes

Presentation / Conference
Johnston, L., & Young, J. (2019, September)
Beneath the ‘PROM’? What people affected by cancer really value from services: thematic synthesis of findings from two national cancer programmes. Poster presented at IPOS World Congress of Psycho-Oncology and Psychosocial Academy, Banff, Canada
Objective/Purpose Internationally, little is known about how services contribute to positive changes in Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) from the patients’ perspectiv...

Systematic review and thematic synthesis of the implementation and impact of holistic needs assessments for people affected by cancer

Presentation / Conference
Johnston, L., Young, J., & Campbell, K. (2019, September)
Systematic review and thematic synthesis of the implementation and impact of holistic needs assessments for people affected by cancer. Poster presented at IPOS World Congress of Psycho-Oncology and Psychosocial Academy, Banff, Canada
Background/rationale or Objectives/purpose: International government and clinical policy recommends individuals affected by cancer should have all their needs ass...

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • Review of methods and research approached used to evaluate health interventions in natural environments. A contribution to the developing green space and health evidence base. With Aileen Marshall-Brown, February 2011
  • o Engaging Disability Organisations: Mapping Scotland's Disability Organisations. Lucy Johnston, Clare Lardner, Anna Barton and Mike Martin. Scottish Government Social Research 2009
  • review of evidence to contribute to the debate on, and inform the development of, the policy on shifting the balance of care. Lucy Johnston, Clare Lardner and Ruth Jepson. Scottish Government Social Research 2008.
  • Engaging Disability Organisations: A Resource Guide to Engagement, Standards, Guidance and Tool Kits
  • Missed Out, Missing Out. Learning disabled adults living in the family home. Quarriers, 2008
  • o Evaluation of the operation and impact of free personal care, Scottish Executive February 2007, Hexagon Research and Consulting, with Lucy Johnston
  • Growing up, going down: A preliminary comparison of services for children and adults with disabilities. Quarriers, 2005

Current Post Grad projects