HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH PROGRAMME
This scheme funds research aimed at improving the quality, effectiveness and accessibility of the NHS, focusing on three dimensions of quality that are of central concern to the NHS: patient safety, patient experience and effectiveness of care. Listed below and right (In Detail box) are the first three projects to be funded.
Award winner: Glenn Robert
Institution: King's College London
Value: £252,146
Facilitating knowledge exchange between healthcare sectors, organisations and professions: studying "boundary-spanning" processes and their impact on healthcare quality
Award winner: Rosalind Raine
Institution: University College London
Value: £695,002
Improving the effectiveness of multidisciplinary team meetings for patients with chronic diseases
HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME
Award winner: Sarah Lamb
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £2,509,848
Prevention of fall-related injuries trial (Pre-FIT)
SERVICE DELIVERY AND ORGANISATION PROGRAMME
Award winner: Julia Addington-Hall
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £474,690
The impact of variations in out-of-hours end-of-life care provision on patient experience, staff and health systems
Award winner: Graham Martin
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: £131,995
The medium-term sustainability of organisational innovations in the NHS
Award winner: Vari Drennan
Institution: Kingston University and St George's, University of London
Value: £350,168
Investigating the contribution of physician assistants to primary care in England
Award winner: Helen Snooks
Institution: Swansea University
Value: £518,375
Predictive risk stratification: impact on care for people with, or at risk of, chronic conditions
Award winner: Vicky Ward
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £298,917
The role of informal networks in spreading knowledge between healthcare managers
EFFICACY AND MECHANISM EVALUATION PROGRAMME
Award winner: Danny McAuley
Institution: Queen's University Belfast
Value: £964,437
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA reductase inhibition with simvastatin in acute lung injury to reduce pulmonary dysfunction (HARP)
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: Robert Williams
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £106,945
Metaphysical indeterminacy
Award winner: Simon Ditchfield
Institution: University of York
Value: £457,645
Conversion narratives in early modern Europe: a cross-confessional and comparative study, 1550-1700
Award winner: Daniel Branch
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £286,948
Empire loyalists: histories of rebellion and collaboration in the British Empire
Award winner: Katharine Hodgson
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £343,857
Reconfiguring the canon of 20th-century Russian poetry, 1991-2008
IN DETAIL
Award winner: Monica Lakhanpaul
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: £9,284
The use of a collaborative structured methodology for the development of a multifaceted intervention programme for the management of asthma, tailored to the needs of children and families of South Asian origin.
Basing her study on the perceptions and experiences of parents and children in this group, Dr Lakhanpaul will look to present healthcare commissioners and providers with evidence that can be taken into account when tailoring intervention programmes. Young South Asian asthma sufferers demonstrate poorer health than their white counterparts, and it is hoped that collaboratively developed techniques can empower them and their families to take a leading role in their healthcare. The study also aims to assess the feasibility of transferring this collaborative model to children with other chronic conditions and from other minority groups.