enhancing The Health Of NHS Staff

eTHOS is a multicentre, randomised controlled pilot trial of an employee health screening clinic for NHS staff. The aim of this NIHR funded trial is to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a complex intervention in reducing absenteeism and presenteeism in NHS staff, comparing a hospital-based staff health screening and referral clinic with usual care.

The National Centre for Mental Health (NCMH) brings together world-leading researchers from Cardiff, Swansea and Bangor Universities to learn more about the triggers and causes of mental health problems.

Improving the understanding of back-pain by combining patient generated data with health-records.

The primary care PPIE team have purchased 30 bespoke vidibooks.

The vidibooks aim to increase research awareness and improve patients understanding about health research through watching four, short videos. They will allow for bite-size learning which has been proven to improve engagement and improve mobility of information as they can be used in any venue. Vidibooks are fully portable so can be used in different practices, venues and community settings, without the need for WIFI or licences.

Researchers at the Universities of Bristol and Southampton are looking for GPs and nurse practitioners nationwide to help recruit 399 children to a study comparing antibiotic treatments for Acute Otitis Media with discharge (AOMd).

Behavioural counselling with intensive follow-up for obesity is effective, but in resource-constrained primary care settings briefer approaches are needed. The aim of the study was to estimate the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an internet-based behavioural intervention with regular face-to-face or remote support in primary care, compared with brief advice.

 (www.joindmentiaresaerch.nihr.ac.uk) is still being widely promoted across the UK and members from the West Midlands primary care Patient Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) team continues to actively develop and support  new ways of approach to spread the word to a wider audience, and increase the volunteer recruitment rate for the region