The Community and Primary Care Research Group has at its heart the Professional Services Team. You may ask, “Why do I need administration?” The answer is, more than you may realise! They are the wheels that keep the ‘well-oiled machine’…
There is significant research interest into how nature, natural environments, and associated activities might benefit health; particularly mental health. Clearly, this has become more important over the last year or so. Announced in July 2020, and running for the next…
I started working from home on March 18th 2020 to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, and like many, I’m yet to return to the office. What we thought would be a precautionary few months has turned into fourteen and…
The theme of this year’s mental health awareness week, ‘Nature’, could not be more fitting for the exciting collaborative project between EDP Drug and Alcohol Services, Devon Wildlife Trust, Active Devon, and the University of Plymouth: Flourish in Nature. Funded…
Emails – love them or loathe them, they have definitely increased during the last 12 months whilst we have been navigating home working during a global pandemic. You know the feeling when you open an email or even read…
The NIHR funded Dementia-Person Aligned Care Team (D-PACT) project https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/primarycare/dementia/dementia-person-aligned-care-team, aims to develop and evaluate a person-centred Dementia Support Worker (DSW) intervention based in primary care. The project is…
We are Research Fellows on the NIHR funded Dementia-Person Aligned Care Team (D-PACT) project which aims to develop and evaluate a person-centred Dementia Support Worker (DSW) intervention based in primary care. Interviewing people with dementia and carers, about their experiences of…
Scoping out the Issues in the Rapid Scaling Up of Remote Triage and Consulting in the Covid-19 Pandemic – November 25th 2020 Public Health England’s ‘Open for Business’ campaign has been an attempt to reassure the public that they should…
I am a qualitative researcher on the NIHR funded Dementia-Person Aligned Care Team (DPACT) project (https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/primarycare/dementia-person-aligned-care-team). We are looking at whether quality of life for people with dementia and their carers can be improved by having a dedicated support worker…
Well, the milestone of publishing my first academic journal article has been reached. What can I say other than I am excited about my contribution to an article being published in Health Expectations. Hopefully sometime this month the article will…