Current projects

Research in Emergency Care (REACH): a joint programme with the University of the West of England. Current projects are listed under 'Current research areas'.

Hospital admissions towards the end of life: How do and how should we approach decision making in Primary Care? Davies R, Booker M, Ives J, Huntley A. Funder: SPCR (2022-2026).

Completed projects

• Improving the interactions in urgent care of researchers with patients, clinicians and health service managers: developing training workshops to support knowledge co-production sustainability. Baxter H. Funder: NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Fellowship (2018-2021)

• Using video to explore context and communication in urgent 'primary care sensitive' health encounters: a pilot study using body worn video badges to investigate admission decisions. Booker M, Heawood A, Barnes R, Purdy S. Funder: NIHR School for Primary Care Research (2018-2020)

• Accessing urgent care with dementia. Dooley J, Booker M, Creavin S, Barnes R. Funder: NIHR School for Primary Care Research Launching Fellowship (2018-2020)

• General Practitioners and Emergency Departments (GPED): Efficient Models of Care. Benger J, Salisbury C, Cowlishaw S, Purdy S, Adamson J, Bloor K, Doran T, Gutacker N, Voss S, Gibson A. Funder: NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research (2017-2020) 

• Development of a sub-cellular fluctuation imaging (SCFI) anti-microbial susceptibility testing device for use in community healthcare settings. Booker M, Antognozzi M.  Funder: Bristol AMR (2019)

• Investigating the impact of the introduction of a named GP assigned to patients 75 and over on their continuity of care and emergency hospital admission. Tammes P, Morris R, Chalder M, Payne R, Purdy S, Salisbury C. Funder: NIHR School for Primary Care Research (2017-2018)

• Using the researcher in residence model to facilitate collaboration between academia and the telecommunications industries. Baxter H, Davies B. Funder: Elizabeth Blackwell Institute (2017)

• A patient-orientated hospital discharge summary to promote self-care in older patients: a mixed-method study to determine suitability and outcome measures’. Huntley A, Davies B, Steiner M, Johnson R, Baxter H, Purdy S, Richfield E. Funder: Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Research for Health Challenge Scheme (Awarded November 2017)

• An evaluation of the effectiveness of ‘care bundles’ as a means of improving hospital care and reducing hospital re-admission for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.  Purdy S, Chalder M, Heawood A, Metcalfe C, Hollingworth W, Calvert J, Benger J, Jenkins S. Funder: NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research (2014-2017)

• Supporting Access to First Aid Education (SAFE Project). Mytton J, Booker M, Baxter H, Bowen L, Davies B. Funder: British Red Cross (BRC) (2016-2017)

• Exploring 'primary care sensitive' contacts with the ambulance service: a mixed methods ethnographic study. Booker M, Heawood A, Barnes R, Purdy S. Funder: NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship (2013-2017)

• Deaths and hospital admissions during cold weather: derivation and validation of a tool to help primary care identify vulnerable people. Morris R, Hay A, Wannamethee SG, Lasserson D, Tammes P, Sartini C, Whincup P, Roberts S. Funder: NIHR School for Primary Care Research (2016-17). Related paper: Can we identify older people most vulnerable to living in cold homes during winter?

• Managing uncertainty to reduce emergency bed days in older patients: the role of social isolation and connectedness. Chalder M, Purdy S, Marno P, Hanratty B, Lasserson D. Funder: Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative RCF (2015-2016)

• Managing uncertainty to reduce emergency bed days in older patients: evidence synthesis and feasibility testing. Huntley A, Chalder M, Heawood A, Metcalfe C, Hollingworth W, Benger J, Purdy S. Funder: NIHR Programme Development Grant (2015-2016)

• Can continuity of primary care decrease unscheduled secondary care use? Morris R, Purdy S, Salisbury C, Tammes P, MacKichan F, Lasserson D. Funder: NIHR School for Primary Care Research (2015-2016)

• Do comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) toolkits performed in a community setting prevent hospital admissions and improve health outcomes? Baxter H, Huntley A. Funder: Elizabeth Blackwell Institute (2016)

• A tool to examine where an admission has been avoided. Helen Baxter and Alyson Huntley in collaboration with Bristol and South Gloucestershire CCGs Funded by APCRC. Supported by the ITHAcA HIT (March 2016 - December 2016)

• SR case management unplanned admissions for heart failure. Huntley A.

• Early phase development of a primary care device to detect rapidly antibiotic resistance in common bacteria. Massimo Antognozzi, Ariel Blocker, Helen Baxter and Niamh Redmond. Funded by BristolBridge Supported by the ITHAcA and Rubicon HITs. (April 2016 - June 2016)

• Discharge from secondary into primary care for elderly patients: clinical decision making and risk management, Helen Baxter, Sarah Purdy, Bethany Simmonds, Fiona Fox, Kyra Neubauer, Peter Goyder, Ali Heawood, Sabi Redwood, Sandra Hollinghurst, Sean Cowlishaw, Ann Sephton, Sarah McCracken, Mark Hemmings (Funded by: Avon Primary Care Research collaborative)

• Exploring urgent care service use by children with asthma in Bristol. Chalder M, Purdy S, Heawood A, Dangerfield B. Funder: Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative RCF (2014-2015)

• Out-of-Hours Test Results Project, Ben Davies, Helen Baxter, Alyson Huntley, Helen England, Mike Taylor, Christopher Dykes and Sarah Purdy (Funded by Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative)

• A qualitative study to evaluate the process of identifying patients at the end of life by GPs. L Pocock, S Purdy, L Wye. Severn Faculty RCGP.

• Interventions to reduce unplanned hospital admission: a systematic review. S Purdy, P Brindle, H England, S Paranjothy, D Hyws, G Elwyn.

• A qualitative study to inform the development of interventions to reduce primary care sensitive hospital admissions. S Purdy, A Heawood, L Munro-Davies.

• Avoiding primary care sensitive hospital admissions. S Purdy. MRC Clinical Scientist Fellowship

• Primary care factors associated with utilisation of unscheduled secondary care.  S Purdy, D Lasserson, K Checkland, R Morris, C Salisbury, L Wye, A Huntley.  NIHR: National School for Primary Care Research

• Can a practice based approach using Significant Event Audit identify key factors that might help identify avoidable non-elective hospital admissions? A feasibility study. R Fleetcroft, A Howe, NSteel, P Myint, J Smith, J Maas, G Prove, A Lipp, S Purdy. NIHR RfPB (2013 for 18 months)

• An exploratory study utilising system dynamics to understand use of unscheduled secondary care services by adults with chronic respiratory disease. M Chalder, S Purdy, A Heawood, J Calvert, J Benger, N Jarad, H England S Brailsford, funded by Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative RCF (2012-2013)

• Understanding and enhancing post-discharge recovery after “fast-track‟ elective surgery. F MacKichan, S Purdy. Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative Research Capability Funding.

• How can frontline expertise and new models of care best contribute to safely reducing avoidable acute admissions? C Gericke, J Benger, R Byng, M Daly, S Purdy et al. NIHR SDO

 

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