Building Research Capacity Allied Health

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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)
 

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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)

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This paper describes an evaluation of an initiative to increase the research capability of...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

Developing measures for effective service user and carer participation (with Mark Doel, Chris Carroll, Eleni Chambers, Jo Cooke, Anne Hollows, and Linda Laurie), School of Health and Human Sciences (2007)
 

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Re:Cap - Identifying the evidence base for research capacity development in health and social care (with Jo Cooke, Andrew Booth, and Anna Wilkinson) (2006)

To map the literature on Research Capacity Development (RCD) interventions: at individual, institutional, organisational, and...

 

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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)...

 

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'The squeaky wheel gets the grease': a case study of service user engagement in service development (with Wesley Vernon and Anna Johns), Journal of Integrated Care (2004)

This paper discusses the practicalities and limitations of establishing a service user consultation group to...

 

Assistant practitioners

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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)
 

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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...

 

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Defining and identifying common elements of and contextual influences on the roles of support workers in health and social care: a thematic analysis of the literature (with Anna Moran and Pamela Enderby), Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (2011)

Rationale, aims and objectives

Support workers are the largest single group of staff involved...

 

Support workers in interdisciplinary community rehabilitation teams England: realising their contribution to and impact on care for older people (with Anna Moran, Pamela Enderby, and Mike Bradburn), All Together Better Health 5 - International Interprofessional Conference (2010)
 

The contribution of support workers to the delivery and outcomes of care in community rehabilitation teams in England (with Anna Moran, Pamela Enderby, and Mike Bradburn), Allied Health - Practice and Leadership for our Future Conference (2008)
 

Enabling independence: a guide for rehabilitation workers (with Hazel Mackey), School of Health and Human Sciences (2006)
 

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Stakeholder views of the training needs of an interprofessional practitioner who works with older people (with Fiona Shield and Pamela Enderby), Nurse Education Today (2006)

This paper, reports on United Kingdom research to examine the education and training requirements of...

 

Supervision, accountability and delegation of activities to support workers: A guide for registered practitioners and support workers (with Jenny Pigram, Rosemary Simpson, Susan Hopkins, Jenny Brown, Helen Caulfield, Catherine Smith, and Sue Heyward Giles) (2006)
 

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The introduction and evaluation of an occupational therapy assistant practitioner (with Hazel Mackey), Australian Occupational Therapy Journal (2005)

Background and Aim:

This paper describes the introduction and evaluation of an extended role...

 

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Assistant practitioners: issues of accountability, delegation and competence (with Hazel Mackey), International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation (2005)

The NHS Modernisation Agenda, alongside workforce shortages in health care professions, has led to increasing...

 

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Support workers in intermediate care (with Penny Shuttleworth, Alison Tongue, and Lucy Brown), Health and Social Care in the Community (2005)

Despite the proliferation of support worker roles in the UK, little is known about their...

 

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The development of support workers in allied health care: a case study of podiatry assistants (with Fiona Webb, Lisa Farndon, Alan Borthwick, and Wesley Vernon), British Journal of Podiatry (2004)

The aim of this study was to investigate why support workers were introduced, the development...

 

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Employment and Career Development Opportunities of Foot Care Assistants in the NHS, British Journal of Podiatry (2003)

Aim: To describe employment patterns of foot care assistants (FCAs) and podiatrists working in the...

 

Intermediate / Transition care workforce

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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)
 

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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)
 

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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)
 

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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)
 

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)
 

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“Riding the bumpy seas”: Or the impact of the Knowledge Skills Framework component of the Agenda for Change initiative on staff in intermediate care settings (with Alex McClimens, Anna Moran, Pamela Enderby, and Caroline Mitchell), Journal of Interprofessional Care (2010)

This paper explores the compatibility of the recently modernized NHS pay structure, “Agenda for Change”...

 

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The relationship between staff skill mix, costs and outcomes in intermediate care services (with Simon Dixon, Billingsley Kaambwa, Graham P. Martin, and Stirling Bryan), BMC Health Services Research (2010)

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The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between skill mix, patient...

 

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Understanding service context: development of a service pro forma to describe and measure elderly peoples' community and intermediate care services (with Anna Moran and Stuart G. Parker), Health and Social Care in the Community (2009)

The purpose of this paper was to develop a pro forma which classifies the components...

 

Health workforce reform: dynamic shifts in the division of labour and the implications for interprofessional education and practice (with Rosalie A. Boyce, Alan M. Borthwick, and Monica Moran), Sociology of interprofessional health care practice: critical reflections and concrete solutions (2009)
 

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Looking inside the black box of community rehabilitation and intermediate care teams in the United Kingdom: an audit of service and staffing configuration (with Anna Moran, Jenny Freeman, Pamela Enderby, Simon Dixon, Stuart Parker, and Mike Bradburn), Quality in Primary Care (2009)

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To generate a picture of the range, configuration and staffing of community and intermediate...

 

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Challenges, benefits and weaknesses of intermediate care: results from five UK case study sites (with Emma Regan, Graham Martin, Jon Glasby, Graham Hewitt, and Hilda Parker), Health and Social Care in the Community (2008)

The authors explore the views of practitioners and managers on the implementation of intermediate care...

 

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The impact of intermediate care services on job satisfaction, skills and career development opportunities, Journal of Clinical Nursing (2007)

Aim. The purpose of this study was to examine, in depth, the impact of intermediate...

 

Dynamic professional boundaries in the health care workforce, University of Teeside Health Seminar Series (2006)
 

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The impact of workforce flexibility on older people's services (with Anna Moran, Pamela Enderby, Stuart Parker, Simon Dixon, Mike Bradburn, Alex McClimens, Alan M. Borthwick, and James Buchan), International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation (2006)
 

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Place, policy and practitioners: On rehabilitation, independence and the therapeutic landscape in the changing geography of care provision to older people in the UK (with Graham P. Martin, Hilda Parker, Kay Phelps, and Emma L. Regen), Social Science and Medicine (2005)

A growing body of literature in geography and other social sciences considers the role of...

 

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"There's no place like home": A pilot study of perspectives of international health and social care professionals working in the UK (with Anna Moran and Allister Butler), Australian and New Zealand Health Policy (2005)

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Many countries are reporting health workforce shortages across a range of professions at a...

 

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Dynamic professional boundaries in the healthcare workforce (with Alan Borthwick), Sociology of Health and Illness (2005)
 

Evaluation report for the Wakefield intermediate care services (with Pamela Enderby, A Johns, Jenny Freeman, and Jo Cooke), University of Sheffield (2005)
 

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Support workers in intermediate care (with Penny Shuttleworth, Alison Tongue, and Lucy Brown), Health and Social Care in the Community (2005)

Despite the proliferation of support worker roles in the UK, little is known about their...

 

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Improving intermediate care: giving practitioners a voice, Journal of Integrated Care (2004)

This paper presents the experiences and perspectives of practitioners involved in the delivery of intermediate...

 

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Dynamic role boundaries in intermediate care services, Journal of Interprofessional Care (2004)

This paper examines the impact of intermediate care service delivery on the role boundaries of...

 

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Promoting flexibility in the intermediate care workforce, Journal of Integrated Care (2003)

This paper discusses the pressures on intermediate care services to provide a flexible approach to...

 

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)
 

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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...

 

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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....

 

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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

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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)

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Increasing demands for podiatry combined with workforce shortages due to attrition, part-time working practices...

 

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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)

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The last decade has witnessed a rapid transformation in the role boundaries of the...

 

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Achieving professional status: Australian podiatrists' perceptions (with Alan M. Borthwick, Wesley Vernon, and Jeremy Walker), Journal of Foot and Ankle Research (2009)

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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)
 

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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...

 

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Participatory action research improves podiatry care in diabetes, The Diabetic Foot (2004)

This study identified current levels of adherence by podiatrists to the Australian Podiatric Guidelines for...

 

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Consulting stakeholders in high-risk foot care services development (with Nicole Devlin), The Diabetic Foot (2003)

This paper reports the results of stakeholder consultation in the development of high-risk foot services...

 

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Employment and Career Development Opportunities of Foot Care Assistants in the NHS, British Journal of Podiatry (2003)

Aim: To describe employment patterns of foot care assistants (FCAs) and podiatrists working in the...

 

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Can footwear retailers play a role in primary care prevention?, Australasian Journal of Podiatric Medicine (2001)

The aim of this project was to investigate whether footwear retailers can play a role...

 

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Reported rates of foot problems in rural south-east Queensland, Australasian Journal of Podiatric Medicine (1999)

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of self-reported foot problems in...

 

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The footwear suitability scale: a measure of shoe-fit for people with diabetes, Australasian Journal of Podiatric Medicine (1999)

Footwear has been found to be a precipitating cause of injury leading to lower extremity...

 

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)
 

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)
 

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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...

 

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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)
 

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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...

 

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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)...

 

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Issues of podiatry status in the UK (with Wesley Vernon, Alan M. Borthwick, Farndon L, and J Walker), British Journal of Podiatry (2005)
 

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The employment of podiatrists and foot care assistants in the UK NHS (with Farndon Lisa), British Journal of Podiatry (2001)
 

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To err is human, editorial, Australasian Journal of Podiatric Medicine (2000)