Taking time out

We are delighted to host a short series of blogs from the amazing PenARC (NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South West Peninsula) PhD students in which they reflect on the support they have received from each other over the last year...

Sharing ideas

We are delighted to host a short series of blogs from the amazing PenARC (NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South West Peninsula) PhD students in which they reflect on the support they have received from each other over the last year...

It’s the little things…

We are delighted to host a short series of blogs from the amazing PenARC (NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South West Peninsula) PhD students in which they reflect on the support they have received from each other over the last year...

We talk about the weather, our moods, our work…

We are delighted to host a short series of blogs from the amazing PenARC (NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South West Peninsula) PhD students in which they reflect on the support they have received from each other over the last year...

BEETLE (Better Outcomes for Older People), or the importance of planning planned treatments

A guest blog from our newest project team... It has been almost two months since the 1st of May 2021 when the BEETLE (Better Outcomes for Older People) officially started (and it is due to finish in August 2022). So...

‘Research-informed’ care homes

A guest blogpost from our colleagues working on the exciting ExCHANGE project. ExCHANGE is funded by the Alzheimer’s Society and Dunhill Medical Trust and aims to develop and test ways of engaging care home practitioners and others more practically in...

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."(Soren Kierkegaard) Welcome back to our blog! We have missed sharing our news with you and can’t quite believe it’s been over a year since our last post in...

Making sense of care homes

One of the most exciting projects we’re working on at the moment is ExCHANGE – an 18 month collaborative project, supported by a grant from the Alzheimer’s Society and the Dunhill Medical Trust, which seeks to develop and test a...

Perspectives on patient-initiated appointment systems: The Health Commissioner

In our previous intro blog we talked about a recent Cochrane systematic review on the use of patient-initiated appointment systems for managing the care of people with chronic or recurring conditions in secondary care. This is the fifth of a series of blogs looking...