Community and Health Research Unit
High quality research for quality improvement in health and social care
The Healthier Aging Patient and Public Involvement (HAPPI) group, established in July 2014, was recently successful in gaining funding from the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network. The group has expanded and is working with researchers from the Community and Continue reading HAPPI group awarded funding from East Midlands Academic Health Science Network
Professor Niro Siriwardena and the CaHRU team have been awarded a major grant from the Health Foundation under their Scaling Up Improvement programme. The project is led by Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust supported by the University of Lincoln, Continue reading New implementation study to improve prescribing safety in general practice
A team from CaHRU, led by Dr Jo Middlemass has come together with researchers from the Schools of Education (Prof Terence Karran), Psychology (Dr John Hudson) and Social Science (Despina Laparidou, Prof Niro Siriwardena, Dr Karen Windle, Dr Paul Mansfield) Continue reading Carers of dementia sufferers: Empowerment and Efficacy via Education (CADS: E3)
Funded by the European Commission, awarding €62,000. Key contact: Coral Sirdifield. The QUALICOPC study crosses over 30 European countries and aims to investigate which aspects of the structure and organisation of primary care are the most important in promoting service quality Continue reading Quality and Costs of Primary Care in Europe (QUALICOPC)
Members of Community and Health Research Unit (CaHRU), Jo Middlemass (research nurse) and Prof Niro Siriwardena travelled north to Tromsø, Norway, in the Arctic Circle, to discuss progress and the next phase of the European Commission Framework 7 funded study, Continue reading CHROMED meeting under the midnight sun