All Outputs (37)

Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on recovery colleges: multi-site qualitative study (2024)
Journal Article

Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health problems increased as access to mental health services reduced. Recovery colleges are recovery-focused adult education initiatives delivered by people with professional and lived mental health ex... Read More about Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on recovery colleges: multi-site qualitative study.

Bisphosphonate alternative regimens for the prevention of osteoporotic fragility fractures: BLAST-OFF, a mixed-methods study (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Bisphosphonates are a class of medication commonly used to treat osteoporosis. Alendronate is recommended as the first-line treatment; however, long-term adherence (both treatment compliance and persistence) is poor. Alternative bisphosph... Read More about Bisphosphonate alternative regimens for the prevention of osteoporotic fragility fractures: BLAST-OFF, a mixed-methods study.

How Institutional Logics Inform Emotional Labour: An Ethnography of Junior Doctors (2024)
Journal Article

Sociological analysis of emotional labour can be aided by considering how institutional logics inform the performance of emotional labour. We consider the link between institutional logics and emotional labour by conducting an in-depth case study of... Read More about How Institutional Logics Inform Emotional Labour: An Ethnography of Junior Doctors.

Clinicians’ views of prescribing oral and intravenous bisphosphonates for osteoporosis: a qualitative study (2023)
Journal Article

Background Bisphosphonate medications, including alendronate, ibandronate and risedronate administered orally and zoledronate, administered intravenously, are commonly prescribed for the treatment of osteoporosis based on evidence that, correctly tak... Read More about Clinicians’ views of prescribing oral and intravenous bisphosphonates for osteoporosis: a qualitative study.

Becoming active in the micro-politics of healthcare re-organisation: The identity work and political activation of doctors, nurses and managers (2023)
Journal Article

The changing organisation and governance of healthcare work represents a persistent focus of micro-politics. Whilst there is a developed literature describing the micro-politics struggles that occur amongst health occupations, there is little underst... Read More about Becoming active in the micro-politics of healthcare re-organisation: The identity work and political activation of doctors, nurses and managers.

"Crack on": a qualitative study of care home managers experiences and responses to system-led setbacks during the crisis of the COVID- 19 Pandemic in England (2023)
Journal Article

Objectives: To explore care home managers’ experiences of systems working with various organisations, including statutory, third sector and private, during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic from Sept 2020 to April 2021 Design: An exploratory q... Read More about "Crack on": a qualitative study of care home managers experiences and responses to system-led setbacks during the crisis of the COVID- 19 Pandemic in England.

Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding (2023)
Journal Article

Purpose Recovery Colleges (RCs) have been implemented across England with wide variation in organisational characteristics. The purpose of this study is to describe RCs across England in terms of organisational and student characteristics, fidelit... Read More about Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding.

Navigating the micro-politics of major system change: The implementation of Sustainability Transformation Partnerships in the English health and care system (2022)
Journal Article

Objective To investigate how health and care leaders navigate the micro-politics of major system change (MSC) as manifest in the formulation and implementation of Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) in the English National Health Se... Read More about Navigating the micro-politics of major system change: The implementation of Sustainability Transformation Partnerships in the English health and care system.

Acceptability and engagement amongst patients on oral and intravenous bisphosphonates for the treatment of osteoporosis in older adults (2022)
Journal Article

Background: Osteoporosis is common in older adults leading to fragility fractures at enormous individual and economic cost. Improving long-term adherence with bisphosphonate treatments reduces fracture risk, but adherence rates for first line oral bi... Read More about Acceptability and engagement amongst patients on oral and intravenous bisphosphonates for the treatment of osteoporosis in older adults.

Recovery Colleges Characterisation and Testing in England (RECOLLECT): rationale and protocol (2022)
Journal Article

Background: Recovery Colleges are a relatively recent initiative within mental health services. The first opened in 2009 in London and since then numbers have grown. They are based on principles of personal recovery in mental health, co-production be... Read More about Recovery Colleges Characterisation and Testing in England (RECOLLECT): rationale and protocol.

Acceptability of, and preferences for, remote consulting during COVID-19 among older patients with two common long-term musculoskeletal conditions: findings from three qualitative studies and recommendations for practice (2022)
Journal Article

Background Guidance for choosing face-to-face vs remote consultations (RCs) encourages clinicians to consider patient preferences, however, little is known about acceptability of, and preferences for RCs, particularly amongst patients with musculosk... Read More about Acceptability of, and preferences for, remote consulting during COVID-19 among older patients with two common long-term musculoskeletal conditions: findings from three qualitative studies and recommendations for practice.

Understanding the Political Skills and Behaviours for Leading the Implementation of Health Services Change: A Qualitative Interview Study (2022)
Journal Article

Background: The implementation of change in health and care services is often complicated by organisational micro-politics. There are calls for those leading change to develop and utilise political skills and behaviours to understand and mediate such... Read More about Understanding the Political Skills and Behaviours for Leading the Implementation of Health Services Change: A Qualitative Interview Study.

Care homes, their communities, and resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic: interim findings from a qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article

Background: From late February 2020, English care homes rapidly adapted their practices in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to accommodating new guidelines and policies, staff had to adjust to rapid reconfiguration of services external... Read More about Care homes, their communities, and resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic: interim findings from a qualitative study.

Acceptability of bisphosphonates among patients, clinicians and managers: a systematic review and framework synthesis. (2020)
Journal Article

OBJECTIVE: To explore the acceptability of different bisphosphonate regimens for the treatment of osteoporosis among patients, clinicians and managers, payers and academics. DESIGN: A systematic review of primary qualitative studies. Seven databas... Read More about Acceptability of bisphosphonates among patients, clinicians and managers: a systematic review and framework synthesis..

The contingencies of medical restratification across inter-organisational care networks (2020)
Journal Article

Sociologists have long-debated how health and care reforms have transformed the social organisation of medical work, especially where managerial and market interventions appear to challenge the autonomy and power of doctors (Alford 1975; Harrison and... Read More about The contingencies of medical restratification across inter-organisational care networks.

Factors influencing utilisation of ‘free-standing’ and ‘alongside’ midwifery units for low-risk births in England: a mixed-methods study (2020)
Journal Article

Factors influencing the utilisation of free-standing and alongside midwifery units in England: a qualitative research study (2020)
Journal Article

Translating healthcare research evidence into practice: The role of linked boundary objects (2019)
Journal Article

Recent years have seen widespread interest in the process of evidence implementation and growth of implementation science. Whilst this work has drawn attention to the challenges and complexities of implementing evidence into everyday practice, for th... Read More about Translating healthcare research evidence into practice: The role of linked boundary objects.

Health States of Exception: unsafe non-care and the (inadvertent) production of ‘bare life’ in complex care transitions (2019)
Journal Article

This paper draws on the work of Giorgio Agamben to understand how the social organisation of care transitions can reduce people to their 'bare' life thereby making harmful and degrading treatment seemingly legitimate. The findings of a two-year ethno... Read More about Health States of Exception: unsafe non-care and the (inadvertent) production of ‘bare life’ in complex care transitions.

An ethnographic study comparing approaches to inter-professional knowledge sharing and learning in discharge planning and care transitions (2019)
Journal Article

An ethnographic study comparing approaches to inter-professional knowledge sharing and learning in discharge planning and care transitions Abstract Purpose: This paper investigates how three communication interventions commonly used during discharge... Read More about An ethnographic study comparing approaches to inter-professional knowledge sharing and learning in discharge planning and care transitions.