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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 help reduce obesity
(2020-09)With the government publishing a policy paper on obesity in July 2020, Bethany Boddy looks at the health visitor role in early identification, health promotion and intervention for families -
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 -
Online patient feedback as a measure of quality in primary care: a multimethod study using correlation and qualitative analysis
(2020-02)Objectives To ascertain the relationship between online patient feedback and the General Practice Patient Survey (GPPS) and the Friends and Family Test (FFT). To consider the potential benefit it may add by describing the ... -
The Oxford Textbook of Inpatient Psychiatry
(Oxford University Press, 2019-05)Inpatient mental health care is an essential part of community-based mental health care in the UK. Patients admitted to acute mental health wards are often experiencing high levels of distress and acute mental illness and ... -
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. ... -
Patterns in Weight and Physical Activity Tracking Data Preceding a Stop in Weight Monitoring: Observational Analysis
(2020-03)Background: Self-regulation for weight loss requires regular self-monitoring of weight, but the frequency of weight tracking commonly declines over time. Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether it is a decline ... -
Paul Harrison—investigating the psychiatric sequelae of COVID-19
(2022-04)Paul Harrison describes his academic career as being low profile until several large studies on the psychiatric effects of COVID-19, including those linked to so called long-COVID, thrust him and his team into the limelight. ... -
Point-of- care blood tests during home visits by out-of- hours primary care clinicians; a mixed methods evaluation of a service improvement
(2020-01)Objectives We aimed to evaluate test usage and patient and clinician experience following the introduction of point-of- care (POC) blood tests into a primary care out-of- hours service. Design A mixed methods service ... -
Pre-analytical error for three point of care venous blood testing platforms in acute ambulatory settings: A mixed methods service evaluation
(2020-02)Introduction Point of care blood testing to aid diagnosis is becoming increasingly common in acute ambulatory settings and enables timely investigation of a range of diagnostic markers. However, this testing allows scope ... -
Predicting clinical deterioration after initial assessment in out-of-hours primary care: a retrospective service evaluation
(2017-01)Background: Accurate assessment of the need for admission is challenging in out-of-hours (OOH) primary care. Understanding more about patient contacts where the decision to continue care in the community may have been ... -
Prediction of violent reoffending in people released from prison in England: External validation study of a risk assessment tool (OxRec)
(2023-05)We aimed to externally validate the Oxford Risk of Recidivism (OxRec) tool to estimate 1- and 2-year risk of violent reoffending in people released from prison in England. We identified individuals using admiistrative ... -
The prevalence of anxiety in general hospital inpatients: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(2021-08)Objective To determine the prevalence of anxiety in general hospital inpatients by conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis of all relevant published studies. Method We searched Ovid Medline, Ovid Embase and ... -
The Prevalence of Problem Gambling and Gambling Disorder Among Homeless People: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis
(2022-07)Gambling problems are often associated with homelessness and linked to elevated psychiatric morbidity and homelessness chronicity. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis on prevalence rates of problem gambling ... -
Primary school-based screening for childhood mental health problems and intervention delivery: a qualitative study of parents in challenging circumstances
(2022-10)Few children with mental health problems access evidence-based interventions. Primary schools may be an ideal setting to improve access to treatment through screening and intervention programmes, but some families’ ... -
Promoting safety in the home during the pandemic and beyond
(2021-03)With families home schooling their children, caring for young babies and managing housework during lockdown, it is important for health visitors to promote home safety advice to help prevent unintentional accidents and injuries