Spotlight on Mental Health Emergencies: CaHRU’s Insights from the 999EMS Conference

CaHRU presented at the 999EMS Research Conference, Newcastle, 2025, highlighting the complexities of mental health service delivery by the Ambulance Service. 999 calls are not confined to chest pain or major trauma. A growing prevalence relates to mental health crises, Continue reading Spotlight on Mental Health Emergencies: CaHRU’s Insights from the 999EMS Conference

improving Pain mAnagement for childreN and young people attendeD by Ambulance (PANDA): A realist informed intervention development and feasibility study

The problem Each year in England approximately 86,000 children and young people under 18 years of age are transported by ambulance to emergency departments with acute pain. Acute pain is pain lasting less than 12 weeks. The acute pain may Continue reading improving Pain mAnagement for childreN and young people attendeD by Ambulance (PANDA): A realist informed intervention development and feasibility study

CaHRU-RCGP collaboration wins RCGP Research Paper of The Year in Medical Education for the third time

Members of the CaHRU in collaboration with RCGP examinations were awarded in 2024 the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Research Paper of the Year 2023, Category 3: Medical Education, for their paper, ‘Academic performance of ethnic minority versus White Continue reading CaHRU-RCGP collaboration wins RCGP Research Paper of The Year in Medical Education for the third time

Research seminar: Self-controlled case series methodology.

Dr Zahid Asghar

On 17th July Dr Zahid Asghar gave a seminar on “Self-controlled case series methodology”. Epidemiological study designs, such as cohort and case-control studies, have been widely applied in medical research. However, there are several situations, where standard epidemiological study designs Continue reading Research seminar: Self-controlled case series methodology.