Table 1 Sampling frame for participants
Group | Stakeholders | Role |
|---|---|---|
1 | High level/ senior / executive and project managers and steering committee members | Responsible for QASC Europe project governance, decision-making and leadership |
2 | Angels Team Leaders: managers of Angels Consultants | Responsible for facilitating implementation of the FeSS Protocols into enrolled hospitals |
3 | Angels Consultants | Role to increase the number of patients treated in stroke ready hospitals and in relation to FeSS Protocols to facilitate and promote the use of the protocols in enrolled hospitals across a range of European hospitals. Each Angels Consultant was responsible for one or more countries. |
4 | Country Co-ordinators | Senior stroke nurses whose role was to promote the QASC Europe project within hospitals enrolled in their country and who also led implementation of the FeSS Protocols locally in their hospital |