More information about each of the projects, supervisors and duration are given below. Please contact supervisors for an informal discussion if you would like to know more about one of these projects. There is a stipend of £1,000 for each internship.
The Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC) at the University of Bristol is a leading centre for primary care research and teaching in the UK, and one of nine centres that form the NIHR School for Primary Care Research. We are part of Bristol Medical School, an internationally recognised centre of excellence for population health sciences research and teaching.
To apply for a CAPC internship, please complete the CAPC summer internship application form (Office document, 17kB) and return it to the lead supervisor for the relevant project (contact details below).
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Applications close on 30 April 2023.
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The projects
Project 1: One in a Million TELESAFE: Understanding how clinicians in general practice make safe follow-up plans in telephone appointments
Contact Dr Barbara Caddick (barbara.caddick@bristol.ac.uk) or Dr Peter Edwards (peter.edwards@bristol.ac.uk)
The overall aim of the project is to understand how GPs and other primary care clinicians provide, and patients respond to, safety-netting advice in telephone consultations, and to provide an archive of telephone consultations in general practice for further use in research and training.
We will invite patients who have had a recent telephone consultation to give consent for their recorded consultations to be anonymised and used for research and the teaching and training of health professionals. This will include asking them to complete a questionnaire about their experiences in the consultation and permission to use extract relevant information from their medical records.
We will analyse these consultations to understand whether, how and in what circumstances GPs and other clinicians provided safety-netting advice, how patients responded to this advice, and whether this has an impact on subsequent consultations.
We have ethical approval, are NIHR Clinical Research Network adopted and have started recruiting GP practices. We aim to begin data collection at the beginning of March 2023.
You will be supported by Dr Edwards & Dr Caddick to code the content of a subsection of the consultations (estimate n=50) using a Safety-Netting Coding Tool. This will be achieved by: Listening to recorded consultations alongside transcripts, support and training on how to apply the tool and identifying different ‘problems’ discussed and the associated ‘issues’ attached to each problem.
Project 2: ‘Carry Naloxone Somerset’ – an opportunity to contribute to the evaluation of a complex intervention based in community pharmacies and community drug teams
Contact Dr Jenny Scott (jennifer.scott@bristol.ac.uk).
‘Carry Naloxone Somerset’ is a complex intervention that has been developed using the Person Based Approach, with people who use drugs, pharmacists and people who work in drug treatment. This co-design team is led by Dr Jenny Scott. It is funded by Somerset County Council Public Health department. It aims to encourage the carriage of naloxone, because this is known to be low amongst people at risk of witnessing an opioid overdose who have the potential to intervene to save life.
‘Carry Naloxone Somerset’ is being rolled out March 2023, in drugs services and pharmacies in Somerset, as an adaptation to the current take home naloxone scheme. Real Time Evaluation (RTE) will be used to investigate initial response to the intervention against our theory of change, as part of our process evaluation.
In Summer 2023 we will be examining the first three months RTE data and conducting some interviews with key stakeholders, including community pharmacist, drugs service staff and people who have experienced the intervention.
The intern will get the opportunity to gain insight into intervention development and evaluation within healthcare. You will join team meetings, have 1-2-1 discussions with Dr Jenny Scott and Deb Hussey (Turning Point), a colleague on the project, contribute to the analysis of the RTE data, learn about complex intervention development and modification in response to evaluation, and be supported to conduct some initial analysis on some anonymised stakeholder transcripts.
You are expected to have prior placement experience in community pharmacy, which you can draw upon when sharing your ideas on the findings.