Annabel Price is a CLARHC Fellow 2014 and Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust (CPFT). She is based in the Liaison Psychiatry for Older People (LPOP) team at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Project: DiAgNostic pracTice in dEmentia (DANTE): Use of routine anonymised NHS secondary care records to examine presentation, […]
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is pleased to announce the development of the NIHR Trainees Welcome Pack online. It is a resource for all trainees funded by NIHR and has been designed to help with understanding the NIHR system and what opportunities it offers. It includes details of trainees meetings, workshops, NIHR and other […]
I’m a lay member of the Norfolk & Suffolk Patient & Public Involvement in Research Panel (the Panel) and I’ve been involved with health research for well over ten years. The Panel was set up to facilitate and coordinate the involvement of lay members in research. In this blog I […]
Louise Lafortune is Senior Research Associate in the Dementia, Fraily and End of Life Care Research theme. Research team: Louise Lafortune, Sarah Kelly, Steven Martin, Isla Kuhn, Andy Cowan, Carol Brayne Background Despite a wealth of evidence on the association between low physical activity, smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, and ill […]
It’s tricky, trying to keep the research grounded and applicable, yet robust and not swayed by anecdote. Yet when we take our findings to a stakeholder group we expect personal experience and stories and opinion on what ‘should or should not be done’ we want that to ‘test’ what has […]