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Research in Health and Social Care

Current projects

Revalidation Support Team (Department of Health)

The Faculty of Education, Health and Social Care successfully bid for funds to undertake research for the Revalidation Support Team, the Department of Health, to explore the identification of poor performance in doctors in NHS organisations.  The aim of this research project is to scope the existing knowledge-base concerning the identification of poor performance amongst doctors working in NHS organisations, and to collate the methods and processes currently used to identify practice performance issues in both primary and secondary health care. This is to be achieved through a literature review, a survey of a purposive sample of UK NHS trusts and interviews with key informants. The research is being undertaken by Dr Rachel Locke, Dr Camilla Leach, Dr Sam Scallan, Professor Mark Richenbach and Professor Joyce Goodman.

STAR (Start Tackling Alcohol Responsibly) project evaluation

The Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Social Sciences, Health and Social Care are working jointly on this project to evaluate the impact of the effect of multiple interventions on alcohol attitudes and behaviour in a local area.

An enquiry in professional awareness and quality of life issues of children and young adults suffering CVS

This project explores current awareness a medically and educationally disabling disorder and the effects on quality of life of children, young adults and their families. Although CVS has been reported on since 1843 and published research suggests that the condition may affect up to 2% of children, the condition is not widely recognised and many children may go undiagnosed for years. This project explores the holistic needs of children and young adults (educational, social, physical and psychological) with the condition and provides data valuable to professionals working with children who support them in achieving the Every Child Matters Outcomes. 

Impact of the Introduction of the Ward Manager Assistants

An increase in the time nurses spend on patient care is sought by government and a related call has been made for Ward Managers to be ‘pivotal’ in improving the quality of patient care on hospital wards.  To help achieve these targets, by relieving Ward Managers of some of their administrative duties, Ward Manager Assistants were placed for one year (2009-2010) into eight hospital Trusts across NHS South Central. To determine the effects of this novel role on the workload distribution of the Ward Manager and its effects on the quality of patient care, the project was evaluated by a team from NHS Education South Central and the Faculty of Education, Health and Social Care at the University of Winchester.

 Further information on our current projects can be found here.

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