Primary care domestic violence programme
Led by Queen Mary, University of London, this project focused on domestic violence and how the NHS, particularly in primary care, can better respond to it. The project used a randomised control trial ...
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Reducing emergency admissions from care homes: a measure of success for the NHS Long Term Plan?
Jennifer Dixon asks how the NHS Long Term plan can support efforts to reduce emergency admissions from care homes.
Quality improvement in chronic kidney disease
This project, led by St George’s, University of London and Kidney Research UK, focused on helping GPs identify and manage patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), a long-standing clinical problem a...
Resources for Effective Sleep Treatment
This project, led by West Lincolnshire Primary Care Trust, focused on sleep treatment and encouraging treatment options other than prescribed sleeping pills. The team analysed prescribing data, survey...
Harnessing data analytics to maximise NHS learning from patient safety incident reports
This project developed and tested analytical strategies to inform the design of quality improvement projects led by paediatric trainees.
Developing the foundations of applied analytics: using a collaborative approach to model ‘black days’
Significantly increased analytical capabilities and implemented processes to allow for data-mining and rapid exploration of datasets to inform future service reconfiguration.
Working with SHAs: NHS North East
Run by NHS North East, from December 2009 to January 2012, this project set out to improve patient safety, with a focus on nine clinical safety areas. The programme of work included identifying main a...
From data to decisions: embedding a Real-world Intervention Causal Evaluation (RICE) tool in the decision making process
This project involved developing a Real-world Intervention Causal Evaluation (RICE) tool, which semi-automates the process of intervention evaluation and significantly enhances analytical capability.
Computation of adherence to medicines to assist clinicians in the outpatient setting
This project used the programming language R to analyse prescription data to provide clinicians with adherence estimates and visualisation of medication histories at the point of care.
Working with SHAs: NHS South West
This project set out to improve quality and patient safety: developing the patient safety infrastructure; further testing of different safety measures; and achieving greater understanding of how to sp...
