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CAHRU at the College of Social Science Summer Conference

IMG-20150703-WA0002CaHRU members, Viet-Hai Phung, Ana Godoy and Dr Jo Middlemass all presented posters at the recent College of Social Science Summer Conference, held at the University of Lincoln Business School on Thursday 2nd July. The purpose of the Conference was to showcase a range of work from across the College of Social Science that had been funded by its small grants scheme.

IMG-20150703-WA0000Ana was busiest as she presented four posters: Resources for Effective Sleep Treatment utilising Community Pharmacists (REST-UP), bisphosphonates and stroke and two for Quality and Costs of Primary Care in Europe (QUALICOPC)! Jo and Viet-Hai presented their work on dementia and ethnic inequalities in prehospital care respectively. All six posters generated considerable interest from attendees. Research from the wider School of Health and Social Care was also very well represented. Alongside the poster sessions were three sessions with 20 oral presentations from PhD students and staff. As with the posters, the oral presentations captured the diversity of the College’s work: from the work of the Red Cross to the future of Christmas markets; from gender identities and football through to the psychology of decision-making; from empathy in nursing to branding cities.

Viet-Hai_posterIt is sometimes felt that students and academics rarely know what research colleagues in other parts of a School or College do. If the university is serious about raising awareness about the work of different departments, schools and colleges, then events such as this should become a permanent fixture in the academic calendar.

Viet-Hai Phung

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Improvement science and research methods seminar on discourse analysis given by Michael Toze

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mtozeThe latest ‘Improvement science and research methods seminar’ on ‘Discourse analysis’ was delivered by Michael Toze, doctoral student at CaHRU. Discourse analysis aims to study the use of oral and textual communication in relation to meaning beyond the words, social context and thought and focuses on analysing how speech and text are organised to achieve an end. The speaker went on to explain related methods such as conversation analysis, content analysis, critical discourse analysis and ethnomethodology an their applications. Finally, Michael described how he was using discourse analysis in his doctoral research exploring competing discourses about sexuality, gender identity and health in LGBT people interacting with general practice staff. The seminar was well attended by colleagues from CaHRU, the School of Health and Social Care, and researchers from Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust and East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust.


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Jolien Vos wins Postgraduate Choice Award at Lincoln Student Union Awards 2015

suawardsJolien Vos, graduate research assistant and PhD student with CaHRU, was winner of the student Postgraduate Choice Award at the University of Lincoln Student Union Awards ceremony on 23 April 2015. The award, sponsored by the Graduate School, is given to individuals who improve the postgraduate learning environment and encourage collaborative, interdisciplinary work.

JolienJolien won the award for being an inspiration to other research students due to the quality and interdisciplinary nature of her work. Jolien has supported other PhD students by co-running, with staff member Kelly Sisson, the successful PhD PALS Scheme. She has also represented the University at a number of external events and conferences, including the internationally renowned Ageing & Society conference, where she won an award in 2014 for her presentation from her doctoral studies on navigating the health care system.

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CaHRU attends regional SAPC meeting at Nottingham University

JolienposterMembers of the CaHRU team, Jolien Vos, Fiona Togher, Despina Laparidou, Viet-Hai Phung, Ana Godoy, Dr Coral Sirdifield, Dr Zahid Asghar and Prof Niro Siriwardena, recently attended the Spring Trent Regional Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) meeting at the University of Nottingham on 17 March 2015 representing the University of Lincoln. It promised to be an exciting day with CaHRU members giving three oral presentations and four posters.

Coral&AnaposterAn opening keynote by Professor Alan Ford from the University of Nottingham gave an overview of the challenges we face to innovate in teaching and learning. His talk was followed by a series of interesting parallels or the chance to attend a workshop. Parallel session captured research surrounding medical education as well as topics regarding care pathways, responsiveness in primary care and the development of a quality control framework for mobile app based health behaviour change interventions.

Fiona&NiroposterJust before lunch, time was allocated to poster viewing. Despina Laparidou presented a poster on the CADS:E3 study of dementia carers. Fiona Togher presented result from her doctoral work on the development of a prehospital Patient Reported Experience Measure. Ana Godoy and Coral Sirdifield displayed a poster on their analysis of the Quality and Costs of Primary Care (QUALICOPC) study in England, in particular on what patient’s value and what they experience in general practice. Jolien Vos presented the scoping review of her doctoral study on care navigation by older people with multimorbidity in a poster.

DespinaposterThe afternoon began with a keynote from Professor Chris Salisbury from Bristol University, focussing on the redesign of primary health care in the context of multimorbidity. Another series of parallels took place which featured research taking place within CaHRU. Ana Godoy presented a case-control study investigating the association of bisphosphonates and stroke, Coral Sirdifield presented a further analysis of QUALICOPC and Jolien Vos presented a qualitative study of telecare for patients with multimorbidity ongoing research.

The day came to an end with the announcement of the winners of the early career prizes and the CaHRU team looking back on a successful conference.

By Jolien Vos

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CaHRU to contribute to Institute for Healthcare Improvement Web and Action on Improving Prehospital Emergency Care

NProfessor Niro Siriwardena will join Dave Williams and EMS leaders from the United States and abroad, conducting pioneering work in the field of prehospital quality improvement, for an Institute for Healthcare Improvement Web and Action on Improving Prehospital Emergency Care the spring (March and April 2015). The Web and Action will consist of five sessions over the next two months.

NIn Session One, Introduction to Improving Prehospital Emergency Care Systems (Thursday, March 5, 2015, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Time), David Williams and Kedar Mate will introduce the agenda for the Web & Action Series, providing an overview of the history of ambulance service, the current state of the profession and improvement opportunities for prehospital care. Jerry Overton and Paul Gowens join Session Two, Early Identification of Deteriorating Patients (Thursday, March 19, 20, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET), introduce the concept of early identification, resource allocation, and intervention and present the use of a prehospital early warning score to identify prehospital patients who are deteriorating (e.g., sepsis) to expedite transport, intervention, and emergency department notification.

NProf Niro Siriwardena and Jonathan Studnek present key care pathways for improving core prehospital care processes and outcomes in Session Three, Key Care Pathways – Change Package and Measurement of Time Sensitive Conditions (Thursday, April 2, 2015, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET). They go on to discuss the development of a change package and measurement strategy in the NHS England Ambulance Trusts and profile case examples of improving care reliability in stroke and STEMI in the U.S. and U.K.

NIn Session Four, Prehospital Emergency Care Trigger Tool (Thursday, April 16, 2015, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET), Loua Al Shaikh introduces the concept of trigger tools and the application the prehospital care ecosystem. Finally, Mike Taigman and Brenda Staffan lead Session Five, Paramedic Care in the Community (Thursday, April 30, 2015, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET) where they define the emerging opportunity of utilising paramedics in the community through prevention, partnerships, intervention, and post discharge care.