Category: project-05
Mixed methods evaluation of the Getting it Right First Time programme – improvements to NHS orthopaedic care in England: study protocol
Dr Helen Barratt
Helen is a consultant in public health medicine and a health services researcher. She is a member of the CLAHRC research partnership team, and Deputy Director of the CLAHRC Academy. Her research uses qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate health care and public health services.
Dr Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths
Jasmina joined the RPT in January 2018. With undergraduate, MSc and DPhil degrees in applied mathematics, Jasmina’s research focuses on applying different quantitative techniques to explore a variety of biological and physiological systems, comminicable and non-communicable diseases and answer emerging public health and healthcare questions. In conjunction with her role within the RPT, Jasmina also holds Honorary Lectureships at the Department of Mathematics and Institute for Global Health at UCL and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), as well as an Honorary Academic Researcher Post at Public Health England.
Dr Tamara Djuretic
Ruth Plackett
Ruth’s PhD is exploring whether using new educational technologies, such as online simulation, can improve the teaching of clinical reasoning skills for medical students. Ruth, along with her supervisors and medical experts has developed an electronic clinical reasoning educational simulation tool (eCREST). ECREST shows patients in general practice, all patients presenting with vague, non-specific respiratory symptoms, which could be indicative of serious conditions that are often missed in primary, such as lung cancer. This will allow students to practise gathering information from a patient, interpret that information and make informed decisions on diagnosis and management. Ruth is currently conducting a feasibility randomised controlled trial at three medical schools, to see whether it can improve clinical reasoning skills, and a qualitative think aloud interview study, to explore how eCREST can help students to learn clinical reasoning skills. This PhD aims to improve future doctors’ awareness of the presentation of potentially serious conditions, such as lung cancer in primary care, to help reduce future diagnostic errors.
Dipesh Patel
Dipesh Patel is a post-doctoral Advanced Orthoptist working at Moorfields Eye Hospital. His one-year CLAHRC HEE NCEL fellowship will be spent investigating factors affecting treatment outcomes in children with amblyopia (lazy eye).
Dipesh has been an Orthoptist for 10 years, and has previously researched visual field testing in children with glaucoma and neuro-ophthalmic disease.
Bélène Podmore
Belene’s project is focusing on how long-term conditions impact on access to and outcomes of hip and knee replacement surgery
