Table 2.

Recruitment and retention of settings in the English arm of the IMPACT study

	Setting
Set up	General Practitioners (GPs)	Care Homes	Hospital wards	Community Palliative Care teams (PC)	Hospices
No. of invitations to participate	20 + (Palliative care champions, academic GPs, GP registrars)	Negotiations with care home chain (3 meetings) resulting in 3 Expressions of Interest	2 recruited through a specialist Dementias & neurodegenerative diseases research network (DeNDRoN)	2 recruited through a Clinical Research Network (CLRN)	2 recruited through CLRN
No. recruited	0	2	2	2	2
Baseline assessments	-	2	2	2	2
Baseline meetings	-	With managers not staff	With staff and team leader	With staff and management	With staff and management
Changes planned	-	• Workshops with staff on End of Life Care • Standardise use of pain scales	• Optimising IT use • Ring-fencing beds	See Table 3	See Table 3
Follow up	-		2	2	2
Content of follow up	-	Both Care Homes dropped out	Both sites completed follow up QI profile and interviews	Both sites completed follow up QI profile and interviews	Both sites completed follow up QI profile and part in interviews
Continued quality improvement…	-			1	1
	-		No plans	Continuing development	Continuing development