Professor Susan Nancarrow BAppSc(Pod)(QUT), MAppSc(QUT), PhD(ANU) Susan is Professor of Health Sciences and Director of Research in the School of Health and Human Science at Southern Cross University. She joined SCU in March 2011, returning to Australia following 10 years in Sheffield, UK where she worked as a health services researcher. Susan qualified as a podiatrist at Queensland University of Technology in 1993 and has a research masters (also from QUT) and a PhD from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University. Prior to moving to England in 2001, Susan worked in Australia a range of clinical and management roles, including aboriginal health, multidisciplinary team leader for a community health service and as part of a primary care team in northern India. Susan has been actively involved in research since 1996 when she started investigating lower limb complications associated with diabetes. Later, her interest in health services research developed as a result of work with a community health organisation, and through her PhD research. Her research interests are in workforce development, workforce flexibility and integration, particularly as they relate to primary care, allied health and older peoples' services. She is also actively involved in building research capacity and she project managed the introduction of the new Bachelor of Health Science (Podiatry and Speech Pathology) and Bachelor of Clinical Science (Pedorthics) which commence at SCU in 2013. Susan was principal investigator on a £300,000, National Institute of Health (NIHR) funded workforce research project investigating the impact of workforce flexibility on the costs and outcomes of older peoples' services (The COOP Workforce Project) and a £340,000 NIHR project which developed, implemented and evaluated an Interdisciplinary Management Tool. Her recent research has involved the investigation of workforce dynamics, particularly in the context of multidisciplinary services, community rehabilitation, and the care of older people. She has undertaken a number of research projects and consultancies in this field. Current projects: - Evaluating the Queensland Health Practitioners Models of Care Project. (HWA) - TURN-UP: Targeting the Use of Reminders & Notifications for Uptake by Populations (NIHR, UK) - Evaluation of CLAHRC South Yorkshire (Collaborations for Leadership and Applied Health Research and Care) - Enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of community based services for older people: a secondary analysis to inform service delivery (NIHR, UK) - Greater Southern Area Health Service Allied Health Supervision and Support Project (GAHSSP).
Building Research Capacity Allied Health
The challenges of evaluating large-scale multi-partner programmes: the case of NIHR CLAHRCs (with Graham P. Martin, Vicky Ward, Jane Hendy, Emma Rowley, Janet Heaton, Nicky Britten, Sandra Fielden, and Steven Ariss), Evidence & Policy: a Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (2011)
The limited extent to which research evidence is utilised in healthcare and other public services...
Collaborations for Leadership and Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRCs) in the NHS in England, Centre for Research and Action in Public Health (CERAPH) and ACT Health Conference (2010)
An evaluation of the 'Designated Research Team' approach to building research capacity in primary care (with Jo Cooke, Jane Dyas, and Martin Williams), BMC Family Practice (2008)
Background
This paper describes an evaluation of an initiative to increase the research capability of...
Building research capacity in the allied health professions (with Caroline Pickstone, Jo Cooke, Wesley Vernon, Gail Mountain, Rosalie Boyce, and Jackie Campbell), Evidence and Policy (2008)
This article discusses research capacity building and its relevance for health practitioners using allied health...
Building research capacity in the allied health professions (with Pickstone C, Jo Cooke, Wesley Vernon, Gail Mountain, Rosalie Boyce, and Jackie Campbell), Evidence & Policy (2008)
This article discusses research capacity building and its relevance for health practitioners using allied health...
Assistant practitioners
Assessing the implementation process and outcomes of newly introduced assistant roles: a qualitative study to examine the utility of the Calderdale Framework as an appraisal tool (with Anna M. Moran, Leah Wiseman, Alison Pighills, and Karen Murphy), Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare (2012)
Abstract: Internationally, the health workforce has undergone rapid transformation to help meet growing staffing demands...
Assisting role redesign: a qualitative evaluation of the implementation of a podiatry assistant role to a community health setting utilising a traineeship approach (with Anna M. Moran, Leah Wiseman, Kerryn Maher, Rosalie Boyce, Alan Borthwick, and Karen Murphy), Journal of Foot and Ankle Research (2012)
Background
Increasing demands for podiatry combined with workforce shortages due to attrition, part-time working practices...
The impact of enhancing the effectiveness of interdisciplinary team working (with Pamela Enderby, Steven Ariss, Tony Smith, Andrew Booth, Michael Campbell, Anna Cantrell, and Stuart Parker) (2012)
Research Aim: The aim of this study is to develop, implement and evaluate the cost...
Mechanisms for successful workforce change: spotlight on allied health assistants working with older people in the community (with Anna Moran), Primary Health Care Research and Information Service (PHCRIS) Conference (2012)
Are we using support workers effectively? the relationship between team characteristics and support worker utilisation in older peoples community based services in England (with Anna Moran, Pamela Enderby, and Michael Bradburn), Health and Social Care in the Community (2012)
Objective: To examine whether patient and/or team characteristics are associated with support worker contribution to...
Intermediate / Transition care workforce
The impact of enhancing the effectiveness of interdisciplinary team working (with Pamela Enderby, Steven Ariss, Tony Smith, Andrew Booth, Michael Campbell, Anna Cantrell, and Stuart Parker) (2012)
Research Aim: The aim of this study is to develop, implement and evaluate the cost...
Enhancing the effectiveness of interprofessional team working: costs and outcomes (with A Ariss, Pamela Enderby, and T Smith), All Together Better Health 5 - International Interprofessional Conference (2012)
The impact of workforce flexibility on the costs and outcomes of older people´s services (with Pamela Enderby, Anna Moran, Simon Dixon, Stuart Parker, Mike Bradburn, Caroline Mitchell, Alex John, and Alex McClimens), School of Health and Human Sciences (2010)
The relationship between workforce flexibility and the costs and outcomes of older peoples services (with Pamela Enderby, Anna Moran, Simon Dixon, Stuart Parker, Michael Bradburn, and Caroline Mitchell) (2010)
The relationship between workforce flexibility and the costs and outcomes of older peoples' services (with Pamela M. Enderby, Anna Moran, Simon Dixon, and Stuart Parker) (2010)
Health outcomes and accountability
Evaluation report for the Wakefield intermediate care services (with Pamela Enderby, A Johns, Jenny Freeman, and Jo Cooke), University of Sheffield (2005)
Measuring outcomes of care following a single assessment process, International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation (2005)
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) community health service successfully introduced a single point of entry...
Accountability and accreditation in the Australian allied health context (with Julie Clark), Practice Development in Health Care (2003)
This paper examines the professional accreditation systems developed by five allied health associations in Australia....
The evaluation of an intervention to prevent the early introduction of solids to babies, Practice Development in Health care (2003)
Aim: To report on the evaluation of a nutrition intervention that was designed to prevent...
Podiatry
Assisting role redesign: a qualitative evaluation of the implementation of a podiatry assistant role to a community health setting utilising a traineeship approach (with Anna M. Moran, Leah Wiseman, Kerryn Maher, Rosalie Boyce, Alan Borthwick, and Karen Murphy), Journal of Foot and Ankle Research (2012)
Background
Increasing demands for podiatry combined with workforce shortages due to attrition, part-time working practices...
Non-medical prescribing in Australia and the UK: the case of podiatry (with Alan M. Borthwick, Anthony J. Short, and Rosalie Boyce), Journal of Foot and Ankle Research (2010)
Background
The last decade has witnessed a rapid transformation in the role boundaries of the...
Achieving professional status: Australian podiatrists' perceptions (with Alan M. Borthwick, Wesley Vernon, and Jeremy Walker), Journal of Foot and Ankle Research (2009)
Background
This paper explores the notion of professional status from the perspective of a sample...
Promoting health: the role of the specialist podiatrist (with Alan M. Borthwick), Health promoting practice: the contribution of nurses and allied health professionals (2005)
Issues of podiatry status in the UK (with Wesley Vernon, Alan Borthwick, Lisa Farndon, and Jeremy Walker), British Journal of Podiatry (2005)
In consideration of concerns expressed over the relative status of podiatrists in the UK, a...
Conference Presentations
Enhancing the effectiveness of interprofessional working: costs and outcomes (with S Ariss), Centre for Research and Action in Public Health (CERAPH) and ACT Health (2010)
'Crisis' in the health workforce: opportunities for system, regulatory and occupational change (with Rosalie A. Boyce), European Sociological Association Research Network Conference (2006)
Using organisation as a strategic resource - the allied health professions: from allied to medicine to allied to each other? (with Rosalie Boyce), European Sociological Association Conference (2005)
No researcher is an island (with J Cooke), The Department of Health postdoctoral research fellows conference (2005)
Workforce Dynamics Questionnaire
Development and validation of a Workforce Dynamics Questionnaire, World Congress of Health Professions (2008)
No subject area
Evaluation of a system of monitoring allied health service provision, quality and outcomes (with Anna M. Moran and R A. Boyce), Global Science and Technology Forum (2012)
Allied health professionals provide a diverse range of patient care. However funders and purchasers of...
Retaining and motivating health workers in very remote areas of Indonesia, do they respond to incentives? (with Ferry Efendi, Retno Indarwati, Anna Kurniati, Rizki Fitryasari PK, and Ah. Yusaf), GSTF Digital Library (2012)
Adequate Human Resources for Health (HRH) are crucial to the delivery of health care services...
Health workforce reform: interprofessional education and practice and the division of labour (with Rosalie A. Boyce, Alan Borthwick, and Monica Morgan), Sociology of interprofessional healthcare practice: critical reflections and concrete solutions (2011)
The challenges of evaluating large-scale, multi-partner programmes: the case of NIHR CLAHRCs (with Graham P. Martin, Vicky Ward, Jane Hendy, Emma Rowley, Janet Heaton, Nicky Britten, Sandra Fielden, and Steven Ariss), Evidence & Policy: a Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (2011)
The limited extent to which research evidence is utilised in healthcare and other public services...
The 'Designated Research Team' approach to building research capacity in primary care (with Jo Cooke, Vicky Hammersley, Lisa Farndon, and Vernon Wesley), Primary Health Care Research and Development (2006)
Trent Focus, a Research and Development Support Unit, have introduced the 'Designated Research Team' (DRT)...