All Outputs (32)

P064 It’s a long time to wait: exploring the support needs of people with rheumatoid arthritis starting methotrexate (2024)
Presentation / Conference

Background/Aims Methotrexate (MTX) is recommended as initial Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug (DMARD) therapy for people with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) but often takes several months to become effective. Little is known about the support needs o... Read More about P064 It’s a long time to wait: exploring the support needs of people with rheumatoid arthritis starting methotrexate.

The information required by people with inflammatory arthritis to take methotrexate: a mixed-methods systematic review (2024)
Journal Article

Objectives This mixed-methods systematic review aimed to identify and synthesize knowledge of the characteristics, content, and preferred format of information to support people with inflammatory arthritis (IA) to take methotrexate. Methods A literat... Read More about The information required by people with inflammatory arthritis to take methotrexate: a mixed-methods systematic review.

I feel a bit happier about going on it now: Exploring the information needs of people starting Methotrexate (2023)
Presentation / Conference

OP0275-HPR ‘IT’S A LOT TO TAKE IN’: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE INFORMATION NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH INFLAMMATORY ARTHRITIS STARTING METHOTREXATE (2023)
Presentation / Conference

Background Guidelines recommend that people with Inflammatory Arthritis have access to tailored information when starting treatment with Methotrexate (MTX) [1]. It is not known what information people with Inflammatory Arthritis (IA) need to take MTX... Read More about OP0275-HPR ‘IT’S A LOT TO TAKE IN’: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE INFORMATION NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH INFLAMMATORY ARTHRITIS STARTING METHOTREXATE.

E008 I feel a bit happier about going on it now: exploring the information needs of people starting methotrexate (2023)
Presentation / Conference

E047 I felt like I’d been given a new lease of life: Exploring the information needs and experiences of people with rheumatoid arthritis receiving bridging glucocorticoids when starting methotrexate (2023)
Presentation / Conference

Nursing and Midwifery Council's post-registration standards review: implications for district nursing (2020)
Journal Article

Optimising the assessment and management of lower limb wounds in general practice (2020)
Journal Article

Patients who present to general practice with a complex lower limb wound or vascular concerns are often referred to other services for review, which may cause delays to their assessment and treatment. To provide prompt assessment and management for p... Read More about Optimising the assessment and management of lower limb wounds in general practice.

Decolonising wound care teaching. (2020)
Journal Article

Editorial.

District and community nursing—‘still doing what we do’ through the pandemic (2020)
Journal Article

Advance care planning and decision-making in dementia care: a literature review. (2020)
Journal Article

Dementia is the leading cause of death in England and Wales, but traditionally it has not been considered a terminal or life-limiting condition. As a result, little significance may be placed on advance care planning (ACP) for people with dementia. E... Read More about Advance care planning and decision-making in dementia care: a literature review..

COVID-19 and district and community nursing. (2020)
Journal Article

'No abstract'

Evaluating the impact of a coaching pilot on students and staff (2019)
Journal Article

A coaching pilot was developed following the publication of a number of reports that recommended a review into how student nurses are taught in clinical practice. A bespoke version of the Collaborative Learning in Practice (CLiP) model was developed,... Read More about Evaluating the impact of a coaching pilot on students and staff.

Challenges to concordance: theories that explain variations in patient responses. (2019)
Journal Article

To meet the challenges of an increasingly ageing and multimorbid population, patients must be fully engaged to work in partnership with their health professional (HP) in the management of their condition(s). The NHS Long Term Plan (2019) outlines goa... Read More about Challenges to concordance: theories that explain variations in patient responses..

Comparison of manual and automated ABPI recording in patients (2019)
Journal Article

In the UK, up to 30% of patients who have a wound on their lower limb have not had the underlying cause of the wound determined (Wounds UK, 2019a). This lack of consistency in wound assessment represents an unnecessary variation in the provision of w... Read More about Comparison of manual and automated ABPI recording in patients.

A new quality of life wound checklist: the patient voice in wound care (2018)
Journal Article

Wounds are expensive; to the NHS as a whole, to local Trusts who provide wound care services with increasingly tightening budgets, to teams within predominantly primary care who deliver the care required and, lastly, but not least, to the patient and... Read More about A new quality of life wound checklist: the patient voice in wound care.

Collected Stories: Being cared for at home (2018)
Journal Article

Background Service user and carer experience of their illness trajectory and the health care services they receive are integral to programme delivery and key to the development of an empathetic future nursing workforce. Methods This project was... Read More about Collected Stories: Being cared for at home.

What a great opportunity (2018)
Journal Article

Chronic venous leg ulcer care: Putting the patient at the heart of leg ulcer care Part 2: Development and evaluation of the consultation template. (2018)
Journal Article

Part 2 in this article series summarises the final two phases of a study which explored the experiences of patients with leg ulcers and the impact of this condition on their quality of life. Early phases of the study revealed a mismatch between issue... Read More about Chronic venous leg ulcer care: Putting the patient at the heart of leg ulcer care Part 2: Development and evaluation of the consultation template..

Non-disclosure of symptoms in primary care: an observational study (2018)
Journal Article

Background: Symptoms form a major component of patient agendas, with the need for an explanation of symptoms being a prominent reason for consultation. Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of different symptoms pre-consultation, to investigate whet... Read More about Non-disclosure of symptoms in primary care: an observational study.