Dr. Niamh Humphries:

Our research was different than intended because of the pandemic. We had planned to do ethnographic research in a number of different hospitals. We had scoped it out a little and the hospitals were quite supportive. Unfortunately, the pandemic put paid to all of that and we had to do all our data collection remotely. We have not linked in with hospital management as much as we would have done in non-Covid times. As the focus of our research has been on the individual doctor, we have sidestepped hospital management. We have a lot of findings on how hospital doctors and management relate to one another and it is not very positive. There is a lot of frustration. There is a feeling that change and initiatives just stop and do not translate into change on the ground because of hospital management or because of the structures of the hospitals. We have not engaged with hospital management as much as we would have in non-Covid times. We would like to do so again and I hope we get an opportunity to do so.