Introduction

We are currently undertaking high quality health research in a number of areas at local, national and international levels. A central theme of the research activity within the school is translational research relating to quality improvement in health and social care. We use a range of methods to investigate aspects of the quality of health and social care, to determine how to improve care provision and to evaluate the effects of interventions designed to bring about improvement. We have active collaborations with other faculties and other UK universities.

Our research is focused in the following areas:

• Quality improvement in health and social care
• Mental health and criminal justice
• Primary care
• Prehospital and emergency care
• Community health and health services: sexual and reproductive health, diversity
• Healthcare workforce innovation, leadership and professional regulation
• Education for health and social care professionals working with elderly, children and families

Recent and current research projects

Mental Health Research Centre

• Refocusing the Care Programme Approach (CPA): the development of a national learning resource to support the Care Programme Approach. DH
• Implementation and evaluation of the ‘Ten Essential Shared Capabilities' (mental health workforce).
• Modernisation programmes - New ways of working for social workers, New ways of working for psychiatrists
• Systematic review of the relationship between health and offending
• Prevalence of mental health disorder amongst offenders on probation in Lincolnshire: NIHR Research for Patient Benefit

Primary Care Research Group

• Resources for Effective Sleep Treatment (http://www.restproject.org.uk/): Health Foundation
• Improving Primary Care Resources for Effective Sleep Treatment (IPCREST): East Midlands Health Innovation and Education Cluster (EM HIEC)
• Exploring social Networks to Augment Cognitive behavioural Therapy (ENACT): EPSRC
• Case-control of potential for influenza and/or pneumococcal vaccination in prevention of stroke and transient ischaemic attack (IPVASTIA): NIHR Research for Patient Benefit
• Understanding and improving influenza seasonal vaccination practices in primary care: NIHR Policy Research Programme

Prehospital and Emergency Care Research Group

• PreHospital Outcomes for Evidence Based Evaluation (PHOEBE): Developing new ways of measuring the impact of ambulance service care. NIHR Programme Grant for Applied Research
• Ambulance Services Cardiovascular Quality Initiative (ASCQI); improving the quality of cardiovascular care by ambulance services: The Health Foundation
• Decision making and safety in emergency care transitions: NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation
• Systematic Review of clinical outcome and cost effectiveness comparing a policy of triage and direct transfer to specialist care centres with delivery to the nearest local hospital: NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation

Members of the Community & Health Research Strategy Group

A Niroshan Siriwardena, Nigel Horner, Christine Jackson, Ros Kane, Janet Walker, Lesley Hicks, Markos Klonizakis, Zowie Davy, Jane Dyas (NIHR East Midlands Research Design Service), Sue Bowler (administrator)

Links

·         Community and Health Research Blog