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Task shifting Midwifery Support Workers as the second health worker at a home birth in the UK: A qualitative study
(2018-03)Objective: Traditionally two midwives attend home births in the UK. This paper explores the implementation of a new home birth care model where births to low risk women are attended by one midwife and one Midwifery Support ... -
The theory-practice gap in wound care: effective ways of embedding your learning into clinical practice
(2020-12)It has been suggested that there are approximately 2.2 million patients in the UK with a chronic wound (Guest et al, 2016). The cost of managing these wounds and associated comorbidities is approximately £5.3 billion (Guest ... -
Trainee Leadership Board: learning about NHS leadership
(2018-03-27)Introduction: The development of a new generation of clinical leaders in the NHS has been increasingly endorsed by most recent literature in medical leadership and management. Despite providing academic rationale and ... -
Training and service provision for people with intellectual disability and mental illness: the views of psychiatrists
(2018-10-24)Objectives: The objectives of this mixed methods study are to 1) investigate the knowledge and skills of mainstream psychiatrists in managing patients with Intellectual Disability (ID) and comorbid mental health disorders, ... -
Typologies for Restructuring Relationships in Cancer Survivorship
(2017-07)Background: Cancer survivors with good social support are generally more motivated to undertake self-management behaviors and make lifestyle changes. However, the impact of changes in social support over time, from ... -
Understanding and working with suicide risk
(2015-07)Key learning points: Understanding risk factors associated with suicide; Considering a framework for understanding suicide; How to assess and manage suicide risk -
A usability study to test the effectiveness, efficiency and simplicity of a newly developed Internet-based Exercise-focused Health App for Lung cancer survivors (iEXHALE): Protocol paper
(2019-10)The Internet-based Exercise-focused Health App for Lung cancer survivors (iEXHALE) is a mobile web app being developed to provide lung cancer survivors with an algorithm-based, tailor-made, self-management programme to ... -
Using a modified Delphi methodology to gain consensus on the use of dressings in chronic wounds management
(2018-03-06)Objective:Managing chronic wounds is associated with a burden to patients, caregivers, health services and society and there is a lack of clarity regarding the role of dressings in improving outcomes. This study aimed to ... -
Using an implementation science approach to implement and evaluate patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) initiatives in routine care settings
(2020-07)Purpose Patient-reported outcome and experience measures (PROMs/PREMs) are well established in research for many health conditions, but barriers persist for implementing them in routine care. Implementation science (IS) ... -
Using local communities to establish geographical boundaries for case studies
(2019-02)Background Case studies are widely used in the social sciences to explore complex phenomena in natural settings. Applying boundaries is vital to ensure cases are easily identifiable and similar enough to be treated as ... -
Validation of UK Biobank data for mental health outcomes: A pilot study using secondary care electronic health records
(2022-02)UK Biobank (UKB) is widely employed to investigate mental health disorders and related exposures; however, its applicability and relevance in a clinical setting and the assumptions required have not been sufficiently and ... -
The value of nurse mentoring relationships: Lessons learnt from a work‐based resilience enhancement programme for nurses working in the forensic setting
(2020-06)This study aimed to evaluate a mento ring programme embedded in a work-based personal resilience enhancement intervention for forensic nurses. This qualitative study formed part of a wider mixed-methods study that aimed ... -
Variation in spend on young mental health across Clinical Commissioning Groups in England: a cross-sectional observational study
(2019-08)Objectives To investigate whether the rate of spend on child and adolescent mental health is influenced by demand for other competing services in local commissioning decisions. Design Analysis of spend data by Clinical ... -
Vitruvian plot: a visualisation tool for multiple outcomes in network meta-analysis
(2022-05)Objective A network meta-analysis (NMA) usually assesses multiple outcomes across several treatment comparisons. The Vitruvian plot aims to facilitate communication of multiple outcomes from NMAs to patients and ... -
Waiting list eradication in secondary care psychology: Addressing a National Health Service blind spot
(2021)Objectives: Waiting times for secondary care psychological therapy remain a 'blind spot' in serious mental illness (SMI) provision, and their reduction is a priority within the National Health Service (NHS) Five Year Forward ... -
A web-based clinical decision tool to support treatment decision-making in psychiatry: a pilot focus group study with clinicians, patients and carers
(2017)Background Treatment decision tools have been developed in many fields of medicine, including psychiatry, however benefits for patients have not been sustained once the support is withdrawn. We have developed a web-based ... -
Wellbeing and burnout amongst medical students in England
(2019-11)The wellbeing of doctors in training is currently under the spotlight. The British Medical Association (BMA) has committed to understanding issues of wellbeing amongst medical students. Medical students from England were ... -
Wellbeing Wednesdays: nurse-led clinic for improving physical health care in a general adolescent inpatient unit
(2020-02)Background: Young people with mental illness are at high risk of physical health complications. Physical healthcare on a general adolescent inpatient unit is complex. Aim: To establish a wellbeing clinic to improve ... -
Wellbeing, psychiatric morbidity and psychological distress amongst medical students in Denmark
(2022-02)Medical students in Denmark undertake a demanding 6-year course which is generally during a critical age for the development of psychiatric disorder and harmful substance or alcohol use behaviours. Previous literature has ...