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.

Preventing cerebral palsy in pre-term babies: the first PReCePT project

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Rapid research into testing patients in ambulances

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Evaluating the Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT)

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Using the recommended summary plan for emergency care and treatment (ReSPECT) in care homes: a qualitative interview study

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Do pooled budgets help children with complex needs?

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Examining how to improve HIV prevention and testing in GP practices

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What impact are remote consultations having on NHS clinicians?

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

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Evaluating the impact of new stop-smoking services in hospitals

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Creating a coronavirus support app

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How gender construction impacts English and Ghanaian young people

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Evaluating ‘we can move’: a whole systems approach to addressing low levels of physical activity in Gloucestershire

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Navigating the river(s) of systems change: a multi-methods, qualitative evaluation exploring the implementation of a systems approach to physical activity in Gloucestershire, England

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Can a community building initiative help increase people’s opportunities for physical activity in Gloucestershire?

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Ripple effects mapping: capturing the wider impacts of systems change efforts in public health

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Measuring demand in general practice

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Measuring Demand in General Practice An exploratory study across the West of England Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) region

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Providing evidence about ‘long COVID’ to healthcare services

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Lessons from the ‘Everyone In’ programme to help people who were homeless during COVID-19

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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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EPICCC-19: Exploring perspectives on COVID-19’s impact on continence care

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Professional perspectives on impacts, benefits and disadvantages of changes made to community continence services during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the EPICCC-19 national survey

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