“The NIHR SSCR-funded study, UCAIRE (https://www.sscr.nihr.ac.uk/projects/p178/), is exploring the lived experience of infection transmission in care homes.  Staff working in any role in older people’s care homes are invited to take the UCAIRE online survey.  Inclusion criteria for the online survey:

Aged ≥18yrs and have worked ≥8 shifts in the UK in the last four month

Employed in any job role in an older people’s care home (e.g., office, estates, domestic, caring, management

The survey takes about 10-12 minutes to complete.  It is available until 15 May 2022.

Respondents will be offered the chance to win one of ten £10 e-vouchers after the survey closes in mid-May.

This online survey follows one UCAIRE held in autumn 2021.  Results from the survey running in spring 2022 will help us determine if staff experiences of infection-control measures are similar to or different from what staff reported in an earlier phase of the pandemic.

To take the survey for care-home staff, please follow this link.

If you work in a care home, we would be grateful if you passed along this notice to make all care-home staff aware of the online survey.

If you have colleagues who link with older people’s care homes, we would also appreciate you relaying this email to them.

Please contact the Principal Investigator with any questions about UCAIRE:

Dr Kathleen Lane, Research Fellow, University of East Anglia (UEA), kathleen.lane@uea.ac.uk”