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Evaluation of effectiveness and safety of pharmacist independent prescribers in care homes: cluster randomised controlled trial (2023)
Journal Article
Holland, R., Bond, C., Alldred, D. P., Arthur, A., Barton, G., Birt, L., …Wright, D. (in press). Evaluation of effectiveness and safety of pharmacist independent prescribers in care homes: cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ, Article e071883. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-071883

Objective To estimate the effectiveness, cost effectiveness (to be reported elsewhere), and safety of pharmacy independent prescribers in care homes.

Design Cluster randomised controlled trial, with clusters based on triads of a pharmacist indepen... Read More about Evaluation of effectiveness and safety of pharmacist independent prescribers in care homes: cluster randomised controlled trial.

‘Smart’ BLE wearables for digital contact tracing in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic—a process evaluation of the CONTACT feasibility study (2023)
Journal Article
Thompson, C. A., Daffu-O’Reilly, A., Willis, T., Gordon, A., Noakes, C., Khaliq, K., …Spilsbury, K. (in press). ‘Smart’ BLE wearables for digital contact tracing in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic—a process evaluation of the CONTACT feasibility study. Implementation Science Communications, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-023-00533-0

Background
Rapid and mass transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus amongst vulnerable people led to devastating effects from COVID-19 in care homes. The CONTACT intervention introduced Bluetooth Low Energy ‘smart’ wearable devices (BLE wearables) as a b... Read More about ‘Smart’ BLE wearables for digital contact tracing in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic—a process evaluation of the CONTACT feasibility study.

Quality in care homes: How wearable devices and social network analysis might help (2024)
Journal Article
Thompson, C., Gordon, A., Khaliq, K., Daffu-O’Reilly, A., Willis, T., Noakes, C., & Spilsbury, K. (in press). Quality in care homes: How wearable devices and social network analysis might help. PloS one, 19(5), Article e0302478. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0302478

Social network analysis can support quality improvement in care homes but traditional approaches to social network analysis are not always feasible in care homes. Recalling contacts and movements in a home is difficult for residents and staff and doc... Read More about Quality in care homes: How wearable devices and social network analysis might help.

Exploring the Religious Practice of Langar as a Route to Health Promotion in the Sikh Community in Northern England: A Qualitative Study (2024)
Journal Article
Daffu-O’Reilly, A., Bharj, K., Horne, M., O’Connor, D., Conner, M., & Astin, F. (in press). Exploring the Religious Practice of Langar as a Route to Health Promotion in the Sikh Community in Northern England: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Religion and Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-024-02077-6

Cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes are prevalent among UK South Asians. Langar is a Sikh religious food practice that could be important in dietary health promotion. This study explored perceptions of langar, its role in health, readiness and... Read More about Exploring the Religious Practice of Langar as a Route to Health Promotion in the Sikh Community in Northern England: A Qualitative Study.

Control of stimulus-set and response-set in task switching (2023)
Working Paper
Grange, J. Control of stimulus-set and response-set in task switching

Successful goal directed behaviour requires not only selecting the correct response to an object in our environment, but also requires selecting the correct object in our environment upon which to act. Whilst most studies on task switching investigat... Read More about Control of stimulus-set and response-set in task switching.