- A systematic review on interventional studies for people presenting with mental health symptoms to ambulance services in rural and urban settings
- Experiencing sleep disturbances and their management among residents and staff members in care homes: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis
- Researching Emergency Ambulance calls to Care Homes: a mixed methods study (REACH)
Completed projects
- Exploring experiences of the illness, its care and achieving function following Guillain-Barré syndrome (GAIN)
- Patient, family member and staff experiences and perceptions of prehospital management of acute pain in adults: a systematic review and meta-synthesis
- Delivering ambulance service care that meets the needs of EU Accession migrants in Lincolnshire
- Ambulance (Emergency Medical Service) interventions in response to pandemics: a scoping review (EMS pandemic review)
- Network exploring Ethics of Ambulance Trials (NEAT)
- Community First Responders: scoping review, qualitative study and database study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes (CFR study)
- Patient, family member and staff experiences and perceptions of prehospital management of acute pain in adults: a systematic review and meta-synthesis
- Delivering ambulance service care that meets the needs of EU Accession migrants in Lincolnshire
- Improving healthcare commissioning for probation: developing data collection and quality indicators
- Understanding and learning from the impact of COVID-19 on probation’s work to improve the health of people under its supervision
- Ambulance calls for Substance use and Alcohol in a Pandemic (ASAP)
A systematic review on interventional studies for people presenting with mental health symptoms to ambulance services in rural and urban settings 2021-2023
Unfunded. Key contact: Ms Despina Laparidou
This a two year study which aims to investigate current practice of managing mental health presentations to ambulance services in rural and urban settings.
Experiencing sleep disturbances and their management among residents and staff members in care homes:sleepincarehomesreview a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis 2021-2023
Unfunded. Key contact: Ms Despina Laparidou
This a two year study which aims to investigate experiences of sleep disturbances in care homes, for everyone involved including residents, their relatives, and care home personnel..
Researching Emergency Ambulance calls to Care Homes: a mixed methods study (REACH) 2021-2023
Funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands, awarding £133,607. Key contact: Professor Niro Siriwardena
This is a multi-method study with systematic review, complex mixed methods, and consensus study which aims to evaluate demographic and clinical predictors of ambulance conveyance to hospital following an emergency call from a care home and explore how outcomes and experiences of care home residents with emergency conditions and the practice capabilities and management experiences of staff involved can be improved.