• Waterbirth: a national retrospective cohort study of factors associated with its use among women in England 

  Aughey, H; Jardine, J; Moitt, N; Fearon, K; Jawdon, J; Pasupathy, D; Urganci, I; NMPA Project Team; Harris, T (Article)

  Background Waterbirth is widely available in English maternity settings for women who are not at increased risk of complications during labour. Immersion in water during labour is associated with a number of maternal ...

• Palliative care in Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease: Looking back, thinking ahead 

  de Vries, Kay; Cousins, Emily; Harrison Dening, Karen (Article)

  Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure. However, it is difficult to diagnose and is unique in that it is both a genetic and transmissible disease. The disease is ...

• Improving support for breastfeeding mothers: a qualitative study on the experiences of breastfeeding among mothers who reside in a deprived and culturally diverse community 

  Cook, Erica; Powell, Faye; Ali, Nasreen; Penn-Jones, Catrin; Ochieng, Bertha; Randhawa, Gurch (Article)

  Background: The United Kingdom has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in Europe, with the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding shown to be closely related to the mothers’ age, ethnicity and social class. Whilst ...

• Predictors of Peripheral Artery Disease among Elderly Respondents in an Urban Hospital, Edo State Nigeria 

  Akpan, Iboro Samuel; Ehimen, Ferguson Ayemere; Adedokun, Babatunde; Oviasu, Osaretin (Article)

  Peripheral artery disease (PAD) potentially affects health-related Quality of Life, Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and is a strong prognostic marker for future cardiovascular events in elderly population. PAD ...

• Safe visiting is essential for nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international perspective 

  Hinsliff-Smith, K.; Low, Lee-Fay; Devi, Reena; Spilsbury, Karen; Brown, Jayne; Sinhu, Samir; Stall, Nathan; Dow, Briony; Griffiths, Alys; Bergman, Christina; Verbeek, H.; Siette, J.; Backhaus, R.; Comas-Herrera, A. (Article)

  Blanket and total bans of nursing home visitors were widespread at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when governments and homes were unprepared to prevent and manage outbreaks. However, these visitor restrictions have ...

• Mapping Research Conducted on Long-Term Care Facilities for Older People in Brazil: A Scoping Review 

  Hinsliff-Smith, K.; Reena, Devi; Gordon, Adam; Oliveria, Deborah; Wachholz, P.A.; Villas Boas, P.J.F.; Shepherd, Victoria; Jacinto, A.F.; Watanabe, H.A.W.; Ricci, N.A. (Article)

  This scoping review aimed to explore the characteristics, strengths, and gaps in research conducted in Brazilian long-term care facilities (LTCFs) for older adults. Electronic searches investigating the residents ( 60 years ...

• The big picture of recovery: a systematic review on the evidence of photography-based methods in researching recovery from mental distress 

  Milasan, Lucian; Bingley, A.F.; Fisher, N.R. (Article)

  Background: In the context of a growing body of literature on incorporating visual media in researching well-being and mental health, this systematic review examined the evidence of using photography-based research methods ...

• How Quality Improvement Collaboratives Work to Improve Healthcare in Care Homes: A Realist Evaluation 

  Hinsliff-Smith, K.; Devi, Reena; Gordon, Adam; Chadborn, Neil; Goodman, Claire; Meyer, Julienne; Dening, Tom; Housley, Gemma; Long, Annabelle; Lewis, Sarah; Banerjee, J.; Gladman, J.R.F.; Long, A.; Usman, A.; Housley, G.; Glover, M.; Gage, H.; Logan, P.A.; Martin, F.C.; Gordon, A.L. (Article)

  Background Quality Improvement Collaboratives (QICs) bring together multidisciplinary teams in a structured process to improve care quality. How QICs can be used to support healthcare improvement in care homes is not fully ...

• Ethical care during COVID-19 for care home residents with dementia 

  Cousins, Emily; de Vries, kay; Harrison Dening, Karen (Article)

  The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on care homes in the UK, particularly for those residents living with dementia. The impetus for this paper comes from a recent review conducted by the authors. That review, ...

• Healthcare professionals’ knowledge, attitudes, and experiences of FGM in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic scoping review 

  Hinsliff-Smith, K.; McGarry, Julie; Ejiroghene ogigbah Adogho, Agatha (Article)

  Background: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) remains a challenge as evidence indicates that healthcare professionals (HCPs) who are required to play a role in the elimination of FGM, support the practice. The reasons some ...

• Work Live Leicestershire Summary Report 

  Blair, Krista; Brown, Jayne; de Vries, Kay (Other)

  The Work.Live.Leicestershire (WiLL) programme is providing help for at least 541 economically inactive or unemployed people in Leicestershire to move into job search, training, or employment. The programme seeks to reach ...

• Developing healthy weight maintenance through co-creation: a partnership with Black African migrant community in East Midlands 

  Ochieng, Lorraine; Amaugo, Lucky; Ochieng, Bertha (Article)

  Background: Obesity prevalence in the UK varies according to ethnicity, with children from minority ethnic groups experiencing higher levels, and yet, there is a scarcity of projects that involve minority ethnic groups ...

• Parents’ experiences of complementary feeding among a United Kingdom culturally diverse and deprived community 

  Cook, Erica Jane; Powell, Faye Caroline; Ali, Nasreen; Penn-Jones, Catrin; Ochieng, Bertha; Randhawa, Gurch (Article)

  Complementary feeding practices and adherence to health recommendations are influenced by a range of different and often interrelating factors such as socio- economic and cultural factors. However, the factors underlying ...

• NHS Maternity Care for Women with Multiple Births and Their Babies A study on feasibility of assessing care using data from births between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2017 in England, Wales and Scotland. 

  Relph, Sophie; Gurol-Urganci, Ipek; Blotkamp, Andrea; Dunn, George; Harris, Tina; Hawdon, Jane; Pasupathy, Dharmintra; van der Meulen, Jan (Technical Report)

  Introduction This report focuses on the maternity care for women with multiple births during the period 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2017 and their babies. The purpose of this report is to describe the feasibility of ...

• LGBTQ+ people living with dementia: An under-served population 

  Cousins, Emily; de Vries, Kay; Harrison Dening, Karen (Article)

  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) people living with dementia are an under-served population. They are often at greater risk of vulnerability, discrimination, loneliness, health inequalities and poorer ...

• USING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS TO SHAPE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION INTO CARE HOMES IN BRAZIL: A WHITE PAPER 

  Hinsliff-Smith, K.; Jacinto, A.F.; Achterberg, W.; Wachholz, P.A.; Dening, T. (Article)

  The Brazilian care home sector is underdeveloped, and the limited available evidence suggests that care quality falls below international standards. Development of the Brazilian care home sector could be associated with ...

• Improving the quality of care in care homes using the Quality Improvement Collaborative approach: lessons learnt from six projects conducted in the UK and the Netherlands 

  Hinsliff-Smith, K.; Devi, R.; Martin, G.; Banerjee, J.; Butler, L.; Pattison, T.; Cruickshank, L.; Maries-Tillott, C.; Wilson, T.; Damery, S.; Meyer, J.; Poot, A.; Chamberlaine, P.; Harvey, D.; Giebel, C.; Chadbourne, N.; Gordon, A.L. (Article)

  The Breakthrough Series Quality Improvement Collaborative (QIC) initiative is a well-developed and widely used approach but most of what we know about it has come from healthcare settings. In this article, those leading ...

• Risk of complicated birth at term in nulliparous and mutiparous women using routinely collected maternity data in England: cohort study 

  Jardine, Jennifer; Blotkamp, Andrea; Gurol-Urganci, Ipek; Knight, Hannah; Harris, Tina; Hawdon, Jane; van der Meulen, Jan; Walker, Kate; Pasupathy, Dharmintra (Article)

  Abstract Objectives To determine the rate of complicated birth at term in women classified at low risk according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guideline for intrapartum care (no pre-existing ...

• The contemporary prescriber: improving working relationships between disciplines. 

  Harrison, Tim; Dunbar, Helena; Ford, Karen (Conference)

  UK policy promotes collaborative working and integrated care, with professions working from common competency frameworks. Interprofessional Education is acknowledged as an effective approach to enabling collaborative ...

• On the need for an ecologically dimensioned medical humanities 

  Coope, Jonathan (Article)

  Increasing calls from medical professionals and scholars suggest an urgent need for better and more widespread understandings of the ecological dimensions of health. Such calls have included: two recent Lancet special ...

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