A5066087395- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Endometriosis Research and Treatment
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Uterine Myomas and Treatments
University of Birmingham
2021-2024
Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit
2021-2023
Background Individuals living with severe mental illness can have significant emotional, physical and social challenges. Collaborative care combines clinical organisational components. Aims We tested whether a primary care-based collaborative model (PARTNERS) would improve quality of life for people diagnoses schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or other psychoses, compared usual care. Method conducted general practice-based, cluster randomised controlled superiority trial. Practices were...
There is uncertainty about the advantages and disadvantages of laparoscopic hysterectomy compared with abdominal hysterectomy, particularly relative rate complications two procedures. While uptake has been slow, situation changing greater familiarity, better training, equipment increased proficiency in technique. Thus, a large, robust, multicentre randomised controlled trial (RCT) needed to compare contemporary determine safest most cost-effective A parallel, open, non-inferiority,...
Background Current NHS policy encourages an integrated approach to provision of mental and physical care for individuals with long term health problems. The ‘PARTNERS2’ complex intervention is designed support psychosis in a primary setting. Aim trial will evaluate the clinical cost-effectiveness PARTNERS2 intervention. Design & setting This cluster randomised controlled superiority comparing collaborative (PARTNERS2) usual care, internal pilot assess feasibility. be within four...
Background Staff sickness absenteeism and presenteeism (attending work while unwell) incur high costs to the NHS, are associated with adverse patient outcomes have been exacerbated by COVID-19 pandemic. The main causes mental musculoskeletal ill health cardiovascular risk factors common. Objectives To undertake a feasibility study inform design of definitive randomised controlled trial effectiveness cost screening clinic in reducing amongst National Health Service staff. Design Individually...
Staff absenteeism and presenteeism incur high costs to the NHS are associated with adverse health outcomes. The main causes musculoskeletal complaints mental ill-health, which potentially modifiable, cardiovascular risk factors also common. We will test feasibility of an RCT evaluate clinical cost-effectiveness employee screening clinic on reducing sickness presenteeism. This is individually randomised controlled pilot trial aiming recruit 480 participants. All previously unscreened...