Research projects

Our research projects are carefully selected from ideas and projects submitted from our health and care community. They fall under our themes of healthier childhoods, mental health, public health and prevention, and integrated and optimal care.

Showing 26 projects in "Health economics"

Connecting evidence with decision making

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Can ‘Super Rehab’ turn the tide on a patient’s heart disease? A feasibility study

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Getting Fit for Surgery: evaluating a pre-surgery ‘health optimisation’ policy

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Commissioner, clinician, and patient experiences of a pre‐surgical health optimisation programme – a qualitative study

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Wellbeing in care homes: using outcomes-based practice

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Which types of mental health support offer best value to help children and young people who have experienced abuse or neglect?

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Improving review appointments for people with long-term conditions

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Evaluating Unity Sexual Health rapid results service

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BMJOpen paper modelling patient flows
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Modelling patient flows and resource use within a sexual health clinic through discrete event simulation to inform service redesign

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Providing smartphones to survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking

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Overcoming Digital Exclusion during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact of Mobile Technology for Survivors of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking – A Mixed Method Study of Survivors and Support Service Provider Views

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Reducing abusive head injuries in babies: Evaluating the ICON programme

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SHarED: Supporting people who repeatedly visit emergency departments

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Evaluating ‘Breathing Space’: a safe space for people experiencing mental health crisis

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Improving how hospitals forecast unplanned admissions

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The impact of policy changes to gluten-free food prescriptions

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The impact of policy changes to gluten-free food prescriptions

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Breaking bread: examining the impact of policy changes in access to state-funded provisions of gluten-free foods in England

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Why we need to improve the evaluation of surgical procedures using shoulder surgery as an example

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How shoulder surgery demonstrates the need to improve evaluation of surgical procedures

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Longitudinal study of use and cost of subacromial decompression surgery: the need for effective evaluation of surgical procedures to prevent overtreatment and wasted resources

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De-adoption: Is the NHS programme to stop treatments that don’t help patients working?

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Evaluating peer-led groups after pain management programmes

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Experiences of Patient-Led Chronic Pain Peer Support Groups After Pain Management Programs: A Qualitative Study

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Preventing cerebral palsy in premature babies: the PReCePT programme

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Drug use in street sex workers: the DUSSK study

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Drug Use in Street Sex worKers (DUSSK) study: results of a mixed methods feasibility study of a complex intervention to reduce illicit drug use in drug dependent female sex workers

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Developing recommendations for chronic disease testing in GP practices

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Are guidelines for monitoring chronic disease in primary care evidence based?

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Treating ankle fractures in older people: an analysis of the uptake of close contact casting

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Exploring trends in admissions and treatment for ankle fractures: a longitudinal cohort study of routinely collected hospital data in England

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