Outputs (40)

An evaluation of a public partnership project between academic institutions and young people with Black African, Asian and Caribbean heritage (2024)
Journal Article

Background: This project (named Reinvent) aimed to promote Public Involvement (PI) in health research. Academics worked with a community group, the Eloquent Praise & Empowerment Dance Company, to develop a community partnership with young people from... Read More about An evaluation of a public partnership project between academic institutions and young people with Black African, Asian and Caribbean heritage.

Safety And Contagion In Acute Psychiatric Wards: how the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents (2024)
Journal Article

In psychiatry, clustered safety incidents are often attributed to behavioural contagion. Drawing on Kindermann and Skinner’s conceptual work in our analysis of staff accounts, we explored whether clustered safety incidents could be attributable to co... Read More about Safety And Contagion In Acute Psychiatric Wards: how the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents.

Understanding the impact of Covid-19 on the delivery and receipt of prison healthcare: an international scoping review (2023)
Journal Article

Understanding the organisational influences on the quality of and access to primary care in English prisons: a qualitative interview study. (2023)
Journal Article

Primary care for routine healthcare conditions is delivered to thousands of people in the English prison estate every day but the prison environment presents unique challenges to the provision of high-quality health care. Little research has focused... Read More about Understanding the organisational influences on the quality of and access to primary care in English prisons: a qualitative interview study..

The quality of prison primary care: cross-sectional cluster-level analyses of prison healthcare data in the North of England (2023)
Journal Article

Prisoners have significant health needs, are relatively high users of healthcare, and often die prematurely. Strong primary care systems are associated with better population health outcomes. We investigated the quality of primary care delivered to p... Read More about The quality of prison primary care: cross-sectional cluster-level analyses of prison healthcare data in the North of England.

‘Trying to battle a very slow version of the system that exists outside’: Experiences of waiting for healthcare in English prisons (2023)
Journal Article

Prison has been described as the ultimate form of time-punishment – a place where time is no longer a commodity for individuals to spend, but is ordered by a system which symbolises its power through the control of segments of people’s lives. As such... Read More about ‘Trying to battle a very slow version of the system that exists outside’: Experiences of waiting for healthcare in English prisons.

Correction: To what extent are patients involved in researching safety in acute mental healthcare? (Research Involvement and Engagement, (2022), 8, 1, (8), 10.1186/s40900-022-00337-x) (2023)
Journal Article

The Quality of Prison Primary Care: Cross-Sectional Analyses of Prison Healthcare Data in England (2023)
Other

Background: Prisoners have significant health needs, are relatively high users of healthcare and often die prematurely. Strong primary care systems are associated with better population health outcomes. We investigated the quality of primary care del... Read More about The Quality of Prison Primary Care: Cross-Sectional Analyses of Prison Healthcare Data in England.

The quality of prison primary care: cross-sectional analyses of prison healthcare data in Northern England (2023)
Presentation / Conference

Background Prisoners have considerable health needs, are relatively high users of health care and often die prematurely. Prison healthcare research has typically focused on specific problems such as substance misuse, but ‘routine’ primary care has re... Read More about The quality of prison primary care: cross-sectional analyses of prison healthcare data in Northern England.

“It was really poor prior to the pandemic. It got really bad after”: A qualitative study of the impact of COVID-19 on prison healthcare in England (2023)
Journal Article

Background The impact of COVID-19 has been exceptional, particularly on the National Health Service which has juggled COVID affected patients alongside related staff shortages and the existing (and growing) health needs of the population. In prisons... Read More about “It was really poor prior to the pandemic. It got really bad after”: A qualitative study of the impact of COVID-19 on prison healthcare in England.

Interventions to improve the implementation of evidence-based healthcare in prisons: a scoping review (2023)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: There are challenges to delivering high quality primary care within prison settings and well-recognised gaps between evidence and practice. There is a growing body of literature evaluating interventions to implement evidence-based practic... Read More about Interventions to improve the implementation of evidence-based healthcare in prisons: a scoping review.

Results of the behaviour change technique synthesis: behaviour change techniques related to intervention procedures, outcomes and mechanisms of action (2022)
Book Chapter

Background Incidents in which children or young people experience severe distress or harm or cause distress or harm to others occur frequently in children and young people’s institutional settings. These incidents are often managed using restrictive... Read More about Results of the behaviour change technique synthesis: behaviour change techniques related to intervention procedures, outcomes and mechanisms of action.

Components of interventions to reduce restrictive practices with children and young people in institutional settings: the Contrast systematic mapping review (2022)
Journal Article

Mapping review of interventions to reduce the use of restrictive practices in children and young people's institutional settings: The CONTRAST study (2022)
Journal Article

Restrictive practices are often used harmfully with children in institutional settings. Interventions to reduce their use do not appear to have been mapped systematically. Using environmental scanning, we conducted a broad-scope mapping review of Eng... Read More about Mapping review of interventions to reduce the use of restrictive practices in children and young people's institutional settings: The CONTRAST study.

Quality indicators and performance measures for prison healthcare: a scoping review. (2022)
Journal Article

Background Internationally, people in prison should receive a standard of healthcare provision equivalent to people living in the community. Yet efforts to assess the quality of healthcare through the use of quality indicators or performance measure... Read More about Quality indicators and performance measures for prison healthcare: a scoping review..

To what extent are patients involved in researching safety in acute mental healthcare? (2022)
Journal Article

Background There is a growing need to involve patients in the development of patient safety interventions. Mental health services, despite their strong history of patient involvement, have been slow to develop patient safety interventions, particula... Read More about To what extent are patients involved in researching safety in acute mental healthcare?.

Non-pharmacological interventions to reduce restrictive practices in adult mental health inpatient settings: the COMPARE systematic mapping review (2021)
Report

Objectives The study aimed to provide a mapping review of non-pharmacological interventions to reduce restrictive practices in adult mental health inpatient settings; classify intervention components using the behaviour change technique taxonomy; ex... Read More about Non-pharmacological interventions to reduce restrictive practices in adult mental health inpatient settings: the COMPARE systematic mapping review.

Integrating primary care across the prison and community interface (2021)
Journal Article

The prison population is commonly misconceived as static and distinct from patients served by community primary care.1 In reality, given an annual throughput of over 250 000,2 an average custodial sentence length of just under 20 months,3 and high ra... Read More about Integrating primary care across the prison and community interface.

Establishing Components of Programmes to Reduce Restrictive Practices in Adult Mental Health Inpatient Services: A Behaviour Change Technique Analysis (2020)
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The relationship between workforce characteristics and perception of quality of care in mental health: A qualitative study (2019)
Journal Article

Background Mental health services worldwide are under strain from a combination of unprecedented demand, workforce reconfigurations, and government austerity measures. There has been relatively little research or policy focus on the impact of staffi... Read More about The relationship between workforce characteristics and perception of quality of care in mental health: A qualitative study.

Making sense of being recalled: a grounded theory (2019)
Journal Article

Purpose A high proportion of forensic mental health service users (FSUs) are recalled to secure hospitals from conditional discharge in the community. The limited research on recall to date has preliminarily identified why FSUs are recalled, but not... Read More about Making sense of being recalled: a grounded theory.

Seeking assistance in later life: how do older people evaluate their need for assistance? (2018)
Journal Article

Carer involvement in compulsory out-patient psychiatric care in England. (2017)
Journal Article

Background There is an expectation in current heath care policy that family carers are involved in service delivery. This is also the case with compulsory outpatient mental health care, Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) that were introduced in Engla... Read More about Carer involvement in compulsory out-patient psychiatric care in England..

Mental health, coercion and family caregiving: issues from the international literature. (2017)
Journal Article

This article summarises current knowledge about two aspects of family care for people with mental illness: potentially pressurising or coercive aspects of family life; and family carers' experiences of being involved in coercive service interventions... Read More about Mental health, coercion and family caregiving: issues from the international literature..

USING TECHNOLOGY IN LATER LIFE: QUALITATIVE INSIGHTS INTO ACTUAL AND PERCEIVED BARRIERS (2017)
Presentation / Conference

Poor health is known to predict social exclusion in later life, however this relationship is moderated by internet and technology use. People’s approach to technology varies and older adults are known to engage less with technology and its associated... Read More about USING TECHNOLOGY IN LATER LIFE: QUALITATIVE INSIGHTS INTO ACTUAL AND PERCEIVED BARRIERS.

Identity in recovery from problematic alcohol use: A qualitative study of online mutual aid. (2017)
Journal Article

An empirical ethical analysis of community treatment orders within mental health services in England (2016)
Journal Article

Patient experiences and perceptions of coercion: universal meaning, individual experiences? (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter presents a synthesis of major research themes and findings on patients’ subjective experiences and perceptions of coercion in community psychiatry. Covering the 20-year period from 1994 to 2014, it reviews studies of both formal (legisla... Read More about Patient experiences and perceptions of coercion: universal meaning, individual experiences?.

Community treatment orders: Clinical and social outcomes, and a subgroup analysis from the OCTET RCT (2014)
Journal Article

Objective Despite widespread use internationally, there is no convincing evidence that community treatment orders (CTO) (legal regimes making out-patient treatment compulsory), reduce readmission rates or have wider patient benefit. The primary and... Read More about Community treatment orders: Clinical and social outcomes, and a subgroup analysis from the OCTET RCT.

Patient, psychiatrist and family carer experiences of community treatment orders: Qualitative study (2014)
Journal Article

Purpose Current literature on personal experiences of community treatment orders (CTO) is limited. This paper examines participants’ experiences of the mechanisms via which the CTO was designed to work: the conditions that form part of the order and... Read More about Patient, psychiatrist and family carer experiences of community treatment orders: Qualitative study.

Trust, Deals and Authority: Community Mental Health Professionals' Experiences of Influencing Reluctant Patients (2014)
Journal Article

The emphasis on care in the community in current mental health policy poses challenges for community mental health professionals with responsibility for patients who do not wish to receive services. Previous studies report that professionals employ a... Read More about Trust, Deals and Authority: Community Mental Health Professionals' Experiences of Influencing Reluctant Patients.

The use of leverage in community mental health: Ethical guidance for practitioners (2014)
Journal Article

Background: Leverage is a particular type of treatment pressure that is used within community mental health services to increase patients’ adherence to treatment. Because leverage involves practitioners making proposals that attempt to influence pat... Read More about The use of leverage in community mental health: Ethical guidance for practitioners.

Leverage and other informal pressures in community psychiatry in England (2013)
Journal Article

Purpose Informal practices aimed at managing psychiatric patients in the community setting fall outside legal and policy provision or guidance. “Leverage” is an informal practice whereby practitioners attempt to influence patients' treatment adheren... Read More about Leverage and other informal pressures in community psychiatry in England.

Community Treatment Orders: a qualitative investigation of patient experiences in England (2011)
Journal Article

Lay perceptions of the desired role and type of user involvement in clinical governance (2009)
Journal Article

Objective The aim of this paper is to explore variations in lay perceptions of user involvement in clinical governance. Context The English National Health Service has sought to build a dependable health service through enhanced effectiveness, res... Read More about Lay perceptions of the desired role and type of user involvement in clinical governance.

Can I risk using public services? Perceived consequences of seeking help and health care among households living in poverty: Qualitative study (2007)
Journal Article

Duty, desire or indifference? A qualitative study of patient decisions about recruitment to an epilepsy treatment trial (2006)
Journal Article

Epilepsy is a common neurological condition, in which drugs are the mainstay of treatment and drugs trials are commonplace. Understanding why patients might or might not opt to participate in epilepsy drug trials is therefore of some importance, part... Read More about Duty, desire or indifference? A qualitative study of patient decisions about recruitment to an epilepsy treatment trial.

Studying Social Policy and Resilience to Adversity in Different Welfare States: Britain and Sweden (2006)
Journal Article

Is poverty more damaging to health in Britain than in Sweden, and if so, why? Following previous research by the authors that suggested such an effect, a new comparative study is examining whether there are aspects of the social and policy context in... Read More about Studying Social Policy and Resilience to Adversity in Different Welfare States: Britain and Sweden.

Translating health policy into research practice (2005)
Book Chapter

The aim of this chapter is to explore and critically appraise the recent moves towards consumer involvement in health research. The UK government has attempted to initiate cultural shifts in how health research is undertaken through policy documents... Read More about Translating health policy into research practice.

User Views and Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research (2003)
Book Chapter