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Research Theme 1: Long-Term Conditions

Long-term conditions

The care of people with long-term conditions currently accounts for 70% of healthcare expenditure. Feedback from patients suggests the care system has a long way to go in providing patient-focussed, seamless care, integrated across organisational boundaries.

In this, our largest theme, we will work with local organisations and patients to improve the management of long-term conditions and evaluate new models of care designed to improve integration, patient satisfaction and efficiency.

Theme lead

Professor Christian Mallen
c.d.mallen@keele.ac.uk
Keele University

Objectives

Short-term:

  • We will undertake studies that are an immediate local priority, that can plausibly generate evaluations of widespread roll-out, and that explicate theory.
  • We will co-design and pilot new evidence-based interventions, which can be tested in multiple sites through NIHR-funded research.

Long-term:

  • Our results will be used to influence policy at home and abroad in areas of massive interest to services, patients and citizens.

Latest updates

Workplace health and wellbeing: a mixed-methods evaluation of cross-regional workplace health initiatives including a cluster randomised controlled trial of a behaviour change intervention

Leads: Dr Laura Kudrna (Theme 6) with Kelly Ann Schmidtke, Lena Al-Khudairy, Laura Quinn, Richard Lilford, Paul Bird, Kate Jolly, Ila Bharatan, Graeme Currie, Magdalena Skrybant, Niyah Campbell, and colleagues from ARC Northwest London and ARC North East and North Cumbria

Dates: September 2021 – September 2023