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Newly qualified health visitor: Parents' and professionals' views of health visiting practice
(2020-03)Bethany Boddy discusses the importance of user feedback to health visiting practice, encouraging clients to let us know what they think about the service, including the positive aspects and areas for improvement -
Newly qualified health visitor: Resilience in practice
(2019-09)As a new cohort of health visitors qualify, Bethany Boddy reflects on the importance of resilience and the way individuals, teams and organisations can support staff as they develop their skills as practitioners through ... -
Newly qualified health visitor: Routine enquiry and disclosure of domestic abuse
(2020-01)Bethany Boddy explores the evidence in relation to domestic abuse prevalence, asking routine enquiry question and responding to a disclosure -
Newly qualified health visitor: Safeguarding the ‘unseen’ child
(2020-02)Bethany Boddy considers the need for holistic assessment of appointments where children were not present, and the importance of considering that a child was not brought, rather than did not attend -
Newly qualified health visitor: The evidence to support home visiting
(2020-05)COVID-19 has changed the way health visiting is being delivered across the country. With the need for social distancing, new practices have been put in place to restrict non-essential visiting and keep families and ... -
Newly qualified health visitor: Working with families to support breastfeeding
(2020-11)Bethany Boddy explores the barriers to breastfeeding in the UK and how practitioners can promote breastfeeding within health visitor practice -
Nurses' experiences of racism in mental health settings through patient and family interactions: A systematic review
(2024-03)Nursing staff engage readily with patients and associates in mental health/forensic inpatient settings. These settings are known to have instances of workplace violence directed towards staff and such violence includes ... -
Nursing Resilience Interventions - A way forward in challenging healthcare territories
(2020-04)Resilience in nursing must be viewed and acknowledged as a dynamic, fluid process that requires continuous nurturing and commitment, as well as adaptability and flexibility in the face of changing professional and personal ... -
Out-of-area placements in acute mental health care: the outcomes
(2019-02)Out-of-area placements (OAPs) are heavily relied upon by the NHS to meet growing demand but they are expensive, disruptive for patients, and may reduce quality of care and outcomes for patients. Here, the authors compared ... -
Out-of-hours primary care end of life prescribing: a data linkage study
(2019-05)Objectives: Out-of-hours (OOH) primary care services are contacted in the last 4 weeks of life by nearly 30% of all patients who die, but OOH palliative prescribing remains poorly understood. Our understanding of prescribing ... -
The Oxford and Reading Cognitive Comorbidity, Frailty and Ageing Research Database exploiting hospital Electronic Patient Records (ORCHARD-EPR): protocol
(2023-11)With population ageing, a wide range of hospital specialties now manage older people with complex conditions and cognitive or physically frailty with associated poor outcomes as highlighted in current guidelines aimed at ... -
Oxford Health Arts: Artist in Residence Project (AiR), Witney January – May 2022
(2022)We are now happy to share a brief review of the outcomes of the Oxford Health Arts: AiR- ‘Artists in Residence’ project based in Witney Community hospital, specifically from January – May 2022. The project was funded by ... -
Paediatric contacts with the UK out-of-hours primary care service and contact outcomes: a regional service evaluation
(2020-07)Background Demand on hospital emergency departments for paediatric problems is increasing. However, the volume and nature of paediatric health demands placed on other parts of the urgent care system have not been explored. ... -
Paediatric enteral feeding at home: an analysis of patient safety incidents
(2019-06)Aims To describe the nature and causes of patient safety incidents relating to care at home for children with enteral feeding devices. Methods We analysed incident data relating to paediatric nasogastric, gastrostomy ... -
Partnerships at the Interface of Education and Mental Health Services: The Utilisation and Acceptability of the Provision of Specialist Liaison and Teacher Skills Training
(2023-02)Partnerships between school staff and mental health professionals have the potential to improve access to mental health support for students, but uncertainty remains regarding whether and how they work in practice. We ... -
Patient and public involvement in reducing health and care research waste
(2018-01-08)Background: Eighty five per cent of health research expenditure is potentially wasted due to failure to publish research, unclear reporting of research that is published, and the failure of new research studies to ... -
Patient safety regulation in the NHS: mapping the regulatory landscape of healthcare
(2019-07)Objectives The current research project sought to map out the regulatory landscape for patient safety in the English National Health Service (NHS). Method We used a systematic desk-based search using a variety of sources ... -
Perceptions and experiences of employee mental health support: a cross-sectional survey of UK ambulance service staff
(2020-09)Background Mental ill health among ambulance staff is widespread. Evidence suggests that, with the right support, staff experiencing mental ill health can continue to work, symptom severity can be reduced and suicide ... -
Pharmaceutical industry, academia and people with experience of mental illness as partners in research: a need for ethical guidance [version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]
(2020-08)Background: Several social and policy developments have led to research partnerships in mental health research, which depart from traditional research models. One form of such partnerships is among research institutions, ... -
Poor medical student welfare—a growing threat to healthcare
(2021-08)The events of the last year have highlighted the importance of healthcare systems and of those who work in them to the wellbeing and functioning of society. As SARS-CoV2 has swept around the world, touching every family ...