Expertise
Primary Care and Community Mental Health
Biography
In addition to my role as Plymouth-based Deputy Director for ARC South West, I lead the University of Plymouth Community and Primary Care Research Centre and NIHR Mental Health Research Group (MHRG). I am a Professor in Primary Care Research and a General Practitioner at Adelaide Street and St Levan Surgery. I have been a clinical researcher since 1995 and have experience of service development, management, policy development and teaching.
My specific areas of expertise and interest include shared care for long-term mental illness, management of common mental health problems and offender health care. I have been involved in projects related to access, commissioning, inter-professional working and implementation of evidence-based practice; becoming experienced with a range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies relevant to health services research. I have developed a particular interest in developing and field testing theoretical models (programme theory) based on realist approaches. This is of particular relevance for the development and evaluation of both innovative interventions, programmes for translating evidence into practice and understanding systems as whole.
Projects
- National evaluation of weight medication access (NEWA)
- Helping to Optimise Pain control in the Elderly experiencing Analgesic Overprescribing (HOPE-AO)
- Evaluation of the Cornwall Community Health and Wellbeing Worker (CHWW) Service
- Coastal and Rural Mental Health Realist Study (CARMHRS)
- Enhanced Reconnect Evaluation
- Community Assessment Treatment Units for frail patients in Cornwall
- Medical Research Council Project
- Community Mental Health Framework Pilot Evaluation
- The Development of Research Knowledge and Culture in Care Homes
- The Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework Study
- Hidden in Plain Sight
- The Peninsula Mental Health Research Initiative (PenMHRI)
- Peninsula Adult Social Care Research Collaborative (PARC)
- Implementing effective primary care responses to poverty-related mental distress (DeSTRESS-2)
- Remote-by-Default Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- General Practice Hubs
- Social Prescribing – Cornwall and Plymouth Researcher in Residence
- D-PACT: Dementia – PersonAlised Care Team
- Researchers in residence
- Sharing Evidence Routine for a Patient Centred Plan of Action (SHERPA)
- DeSTRESS
- PROGROUP: ImPROving GROUP treatment for people with severe obesity
- Social Prescribing – Effective Mechanisms for Social Prescribing
- Effectiveness of interventions to reduce ordering of thyroid function tests: a systematic review
- Engager
- Patient-initiated clinics (PIC) for people with long-term conditions
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