Table 5 Documenting and recording goal setting

V1:

But probably you would have gone through the same process but just recorded it in your notes whereas you’re recording it in a goal format …

LK:

How different was it?

V1:

Hugely different [all voice agreement].

V4:

I suppose we are doing goal setting just now anyway we are just doing it differently. We are not doing the recording stage of it so how do you know what, I mean our patients still have goals; they say “this is what I want to do” and we are going to help them through that process. We are just not formally writing it.

V1:

And recording it.

V3:

… the girl I have done it with, she wouldn’t have verbalised that without me asking ‘what’s that goal that you want to be achieving?’ I was asking her about the forms, and she said…”It gives you a focus to know that’s there, and I’ve filled this in [the goal setting sections]