Completed projects
An overview of the completed projects and other outputs by the Health Services and Delivery Research team, including conferences and peer-reviewed publications.
Completed projects
- Assessment and management pathways of older people with mild cognitive impairment
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This study identified barriers to the diagnosis of memory problems, such as reluctance to seek help and limited availability of advanced diagnostic tests, and highlighted the importance of a timely diagnosis.
- Increasing vaccination of healthcare workers
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This rapid review forms part of a wider review of organisational-level interventions to enhance the health and wellbeing of healthcare workers during times of increased demand for services. This synthesis focuses on the literature relating to the vaccination of staff during times of seasonal and pandemic influenza.
- Social care access for BAME and LGBT+ populations
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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) identified "inequalities within adult social care" as a priority research area and have commissioned an evidence review to support primary research and evaluation differences in provision and experience of adult social care in England. The focus of this review will be on access to adult social care and will include access for BAME adults and LGBT+ adults.
- Supporting staff physical and mental wellbeing during crises in health services
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What is the evidence of the effectiveness of system-level interventions to support staff physical and mental wellbeing during times of particular pressure or crisis in health services?
- Recognition of risk and prevention in safeguarding children and young people
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What interventions are feasible/acceptable, effective and cost-effective in:
- Improving health and social care practitioners' recognition of children or young people who are at risk of abuse?
- Improving recognition of co-occurring forms of abuse where relevant?
- Preventing abuse in these groups?
- Distance to emergency care
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What is the evidence on the relationship between distance/time to an emergency care facility and outcomes for patients? Are service changes that increase the distance for some patients associated with the increased risk of adverse outcomes?
- Preventable hospital admissions
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With regard to the implementation of interventions to reduce preventable hospital admissions for cardiovascular and respiratory conditions: what works, for whom, how, and in what circumstances?
- Digital health
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How safe and clinically effective are digital and online symptom checkers and how do they impact demand for services, patient compliance with the advice received and cost-effectiveness?
- Emergency and urgent care for vulnerable groups
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What interventions exist to manage the use of emergency and urgent care by people from vulnerable groups?
- Access to healthcare services
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What are the barriers to accessing healthcare services for people with learning disabilities and what interventions or models of service provision aim to improve access?
- Congenital heart disease
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What evidence is there for a relationship between organisational features and patient outcomes in congenital heart disease services?
- Measuring nursing input, workload, activity and care
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What research is currently being undertaken in nurse staffing and what gaps exist in the research literature?
- Group clinics
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What is the evidence for the feasibility, appropriateness, meaningfulness, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of group clinics for patients with chronic conditions?
- Models of urgent care
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What evidence is there on the effectiveness of different models of urgent care?
- Diagnostic services
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Evidence for models of diagnostic service provision in the community.
- Contact tracing
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Interventions to improve contact tracing for tuberculosis (TB) in specific groups and in wider populations: an evidence synthesis
- Frail older people in the emergency department
- Achievements and learning from the first three-year programme
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In collaboration with York Evidence Synthesis Centre.
Peer-reviewed publications
2021
Diversity and inequalities of access in social care – Social care access for BAME/LGBT populations.
Booth, A, Hock, E, Preston, L and Uttley, L
Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library
2020
Chambers, D, Cantrell, A, Baxter, S and Turner, J
BMC Medicine, 18, p. 117
Chambers, D, Cantrell, A and Booth, A
Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library
2019
Chambers, D, Cantrell, A J, Johnson, M, Preston, L, Baxter, S K, Booth, A and Turner, J
BMJ Open, 9(8)
Chambers, D, Booth, A, Rodgers, M, Preston, L, Dalton, J, Goyder, E, Thomas, S, Parker, G, Street, A and Eastwood, A (2019) 'Evidence to support delivery of effective health services: a responsive programme of rapid evidence synthesis', Evidence & Policy.
2017
Coster, J E, Turner, J K, Bradbury, D and Cantrell, A
Academic Emergency Medicine, 24(9)
Baxter, S, Goyder, E, Chambers, D, Johnson, M, Preston, L and Booth, A
Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library.
Chambers, D, Booth, A, Rodgers, M, Preston, L, Baxter, S, Dalton, J, Thomas, S, Johnson, M, Goyder, E, Parker, G, Street, A and Eastwood, A (2017)
Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library
2016
Chambers, D, Booth, A, Baxter, S K, Johnson, M, Dickinson, K C and Goyder E C
Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library
2015
Preston, L, Turner, J, Booth, A, O'Keeffe, C, Campbell, F, Jesurasa, A, Cooper K and Goyder E
BMJ Open, 5(12).
Booth, A, Cantrell, A, Preston, L, Chambers, D and Goyder, E
Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library
Turner, J, Coster, J, Chambers, D, Cantrell, A, Phung, V H, Knowles, E, Bradbury, D and Goyder, E
Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library
2014
Turner, J, Preston, L, Booth, A, O'Keeffe, C, Campbell, F, Jesurasa, A, Cooper K and Goyder, E
Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library.
Conferences
2022
HSRUK Conference (July)
Diagnostic ultrasound services in primary care or community settings: an updated systematic review and citation analysis.
Duncan Chambers, Andrew Booth, Susan Baxter, Elizabeth C Goyder.
2021
HSRUK Conference (July)
Supporting evidence-based decision-making in health services research: experience from two responsive evidence synthesis programmes.
Duncan Chambers, Anna Cantrell, Andrew Booth
2020
HSRUK Conference, online, July
School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), the University of Sheffield. Joining up health and social care policy: Implications for evidence identification from a rapid review of safeguarding.
Anna Cantrell, Andrew Booth, Duncan Chambers.
HSRUK Conference, online, July
The importance of diverse search methods for a rapid review of evidence on the distance to emergency care facilities.
Anna Cantrell, Andrew Booth, Duncan Chambers.
2019
HPPN Conference, Oxford, September
Alexa, should I see a doctor? Policy implications of a systematic review of digital and online symptom checkers.
Duncan Chambers, Liddy Goyder, Anna Cantrell, Louise Preston, Susan K Baxter, Andrew Booth, Janette Turner.
HPPN presentation slides (PDF, 384KB)
HSRUK Conference, Manchester, July
Public involvement in evidence synthesis of health services research: Experience of the Sheffield HS&DR Evidence Synthesis Centre.
Duncan Chambers, Susan Baxter, Louise Preston, Anna Cantrell, Maxine Johnson, Elizabeth Goyder, Andrew Booth.
HSRUK 2019 presentation slides (PDF, 282KB)
2018
HSRUK Conference, Nottingham, July
Interventions to reduce preventable hospital admissions for cardiovascular and respiratory conditions: UK data from a systematic mapping review.
Duncan Chambers, Anna Cantrell, Andrew Booth, Elizabeth C Goyder, ScHARR, the University of Sheffield.
HSRUK 2018 poster avoidable admissions (PDF, 319KB)
2017
Society for Social Medicine, Manchester, September
Reviewing evidence to support decision-making on changes in service delivery and organisation: Practical approaches and challenges.
Elizabeth Goyder and Duncan Chambers (Sheffield) Alison Eastwood and Mark Rogers (York).
Presentation SSM workshop 2017 (PDF, 526KB)
HSRUK Symposium, Nottingham, July
Responding to the Health Services and Delivery agenda: Lessons learnt.
Andrew Booth, Mark Rodgers (York) and Duncan Chambers.
Presentation HSRUK workshop 2017 (PDF, 588KB)
2016
Society for Social Medicine, York, September
Limitations of internet searching for understanding the commissioning and delivery of health services: Findings from a systematic review of diagnostic ultrasound services.
Duncan Chambers, Andrew Booth, Susan K Baxter, Maxine Johnson, Elizabeth Goyder.
SSM 2016 poster (PDF, 227KB)
Rapid and responsive evidence synthesis
Alison Eastwood (York), Elizabeth C Goyder, Mark Rogers (York) and Duncan Chambers.
SSM workshop 2016 (PDF, 1.1MB)
HSRUK Symposium, Nottingham, July
Diagnostic ultrasound services in primary care and community settings: A rapid systematic review and evidence map.
Duncan Chambers, Andrew Booth, Susan K Baxter, Maxine Johnson, Elizabeth Goyder.
Poster 1 (PDF, 377KB)
Models of diagnostic service provision in the community: Limited evidence and its implications for health services.
Duncan Chambers, Andrew Booth, Susan K Baxter, Maxine Johnson, Elizabeth Goyder.
Poster 2 (PDF, 370KB)
European Emergency Medical Services Congress, Copenhagen
Why do people access emergency and urgent care and how do they choose which service to access? A rapid evidence review.
Janette Turner, Joanne Coster, Daniel Bradbury.