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.

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).

Children with underlying medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes and cerebral palsy are ‘at risk’ of becoming more unwell from bacterial infections if they get flu. ARCHIE is a double-blind randomised placebo-controlled trial which aims to determine the effect of giving the antibiotic co-amoxiclav to ‘at risk’ children within five days of them becoming ill with flu or influenza-like illness.

The I-WOTCH intervention is targeting patients using Buprenorphine, Dipipanone, Morphine, Diamorphine, Fentanyl, Methadone, Oxycodone, Papavertum, Pentazocine, Pethidine, Tapentadol, or Tramadol for the treatment of persistent non-cancer pain. These drugs account for 95 per cent of UK strong opioid prescribing in primary care.

A study by researchers from across the UK, funded by Action Medical Research, is aiming to discover whether treating asthmatic children according to their genetic status can improve their quality of life and asthma control..