Latest Themed Reviews, Highlights and Signals from NIHR – includes stroke recovery and care options for depression

Bringing you the latest from the NIHR Dissemination Centre, March 2017 

 

Themed Reviews give an overarching view of published and ongoing NIHR research on a particular health care theme.

• “Roads to Recovery”: themed review of NIHR research on the organisation and quality of stroke services.

Highlights explore the research evidence around a particular condition, treatment or service with views from clinicians, patients and commissioners.

• Options in the care for people with depression 

Signals are short, critical summaries of research with headline findings put into context, wirtten by the NIHR Dissemination Centre:

• Personalised letters and a “taster session” help double attendance at NHS stop smoking services

• Nurses and pharmacists can prescribe as effectively as doctors

• Research highlights the challenges of preventing diabetes with group education sessions

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