All research, implementation and evaluation projects
Project title: ‘Peer support’ for improved social care and health of older prisoners: in search of effective, implementable and sustainable solutions for Her Majesty’s Prison Service. Type of research: Evidence synthesis, policy review, case studies and development work. Background and Rationale for new research: With growing prison populations and spiralling […]
Project title: Improving Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: An evaluation of Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) Type of research: Applied Research Background & Strength of Scientific Evidence: The Adult IAPT programme arose from a national desire to improve access to talking therapies for […]
Project title: Prepared to Share. Data sharing in end of life care. Type of research: Applied research and implementation Background & Rationale: Electronic Palliative Care Co-ordination Systems (EPaCCS) have been proposed as a key mechanism for improving coordination of care, enabling patient choice and achieving cost effectiveness in end of […]
Project title: The Cascade study (Dementia case finding) Type of research: Applied research What is this study about? When someone aged 75 or older goes into hospital unexpectedly it is government policy that, amongst the many tests they have done, there should also be an assessment of their memory. This […]
Project title: Understanding Hospital Admissions Close to the End of Life (ACE) Study Type of research: Applied research Background & Scientific Rationale: Where patients die, and whether that place is their choice, reflects how we view and care for people at the end of life. National and local NHS policy […]
Project title: Research into Older people with Dementia and their carers use of Emergency ambulance Services (RODES). Type of research: Complex evaluation: development grant to progressively refine the design before embarking on a full scale intervention design and evaluation. Background & strength of scientific evidence: Care for older people with […]
Project title: Training nurses in a competency framework to support adults with epilepsy and intellectual disability: the EpAID cluster RCT. Type of research: Experimental investigation followed by a clinical trial Background: People with an intellectual (learning) disability (ID) and epilepsy have an increased seizure frequency, higher frequencies of multiple antiepileptic […]
Project title Population Dementia Risk Reduction. Background & Scientific Rationale Maximising the potential of existing observational studies for targeted preventive interventional research is a high priority. Observational evidence from the population studies coordinated from Cambridge has shown that the prevalence of dementia in the population at particular ages has dropped, […]