Completed Projects

There is weak but inconclusive evidence of acupuncture’s efficacy for IBS and there is no evidence on cost-effectiveness. 

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A patient-led, electronic incident reporting scheme for renal patients.

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TRiP-LaB will work with four other CLAHRC research themes and their associated clinical and service user communities to develop, implement and evaluate strategies for evidence-based change in services.

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This research theme will work together with the eight other themes of CLAHRC to enable the NHS to meet the local and national healthcare needs of its population.  

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Frailty is a condition that becomes more common as people get older.  Around 1 in 10 people aged 65 years and over are frail, rising to between a quarter and a half of people aged over 85.

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This project seeks to build upon the findings from two recently completed NIHR SDO studies on assistant roles in secondary healthcare.

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The scope of ECHO will be to describe equitable access, quality and efficiency, at hospital, healthcare area, regional and country level.

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There have been many changes to the regulation of health professionals (e.g. doctors, nurses and therapists) in England over the last decade, intended to protect the public by ensuring professionals are fit to practise and making them accountable through effective regulatory arrangements. This research study sets out to see how the new arrangements for medical revalidation are being implemented both in the NHS and more widely, and to evaluate the impact of revalidation in terms of its costs and effects on medical performance.

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This study will examine how acute hospitals in England have developed the assistant practitioner role.

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Hospital consultants are key decision makers in the teams that provide healthcare in the NHS. Over recent years, there have been large increases in NHS expenditure, particularly on staff salaries.

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Health Policy Matters was a journal published by The University of York from 2000 to 2007. 

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This project examines the way that patients, carers, health professionals and health researchers use language when talking, thinking and writing about chronic illness through the medium of poetry.

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Following a successful bid to the RCN Foundation, researchers in the Department have been awarded funding to carry out research into care and nursing homes. 

This important baseline work will help ensure that the Foundation’s future project grants programmes are well targeted in order to achieve the best possible outcome for patients.

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This is a collaborative writing project between nursing students on clinical placements in nursing care homes and care home residents. 

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Serious mental illness (SMI) is a set of chronic enduring conditions associated with poor outcomes, high healthcare costs and high levels of disease burden. Life expectancy for people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder is typically around 20 years less than for the general population and the majority of premature deaths in people with SMI are attributable to preventable causes. People with SMI are at higher risk of physical ill-health and hospitalisations. Yet primary care plays a central role in the provision of care for people with SMI, with around 31% treated solely by their general practitioner (GP).

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Support matters: use of assistant staff in the delivery of primary and community nursing services in England.

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Following a successful bid to the Department of Health Policy Research Programme, a team of researchers from the University of York, Department of Health Sciences and The King's Fund will work in partnership to conduct fast, responsive research and analytical work to inform all stages of national policy development, implementation and evaluation in health and social care.

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This research intends to answer vital questions by examining data on patient admissions and outcomes from a large acute hopsital in Greater Manchester.

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The National Health Service (NHS) employs over a million people, the vast majority in front-line patient care. Recent failures in care, particularly in mid-Staffordshire hospital, have raised more general concerns about quality in the NHS. This research study proposes to assess how universities and NHS organisations are implementing values based recruitment (in full), and how this affects students, staff and patients.

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