Outputs from programme

Grants

2016

  • Dept of Health PRP Public Health Research Consortium, Department of Health, £174,913.00, Apr-16-Sep-17, contact: Ashley Adamson
  • Evaluation of the North East Vanguard Programmes, NHS £168,570, Oct-16-May-17, contact: David Hunter

2015

  • Policy Research Programme, Department of Health, £537,941, Jan-15-Jun-17, contact: Shelina Visram
  • Policy Research Programme, Department of Health, £415,326, Jan-15-Jun-17, contact: Shelina Visram
  • Newcastle University: Institute of Sustainability. Consumer heuristics and biases in the identification of sustainable food products, Institute of Sustainability, £10,000, Feb-15-Jan-16, contact: Falko Sniehotta
  • Shifting the Gravity of Spending? Exploring methods for supporting public health commissioners in priority-setting to improve population health and address health inequalities - Follow on study, NIHR SPHR £75,000, Sep-15-Mar-17, contact: David Hunter
  • EPSRC Digital Economy Research Centre Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), £451,357.00, Nov-15-Oct-20, contact: Ashley Adamson

2014

  • Evaluation of NHS 111 Service on behalf of NHS North of England CSU, North of England Commissioning Support (NECS), £109,460, Jan-14-Nov-15, contact: Eileen Kaner
  • Evaluation of Psychiatry Liaison Services in Emergency Care, Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT) £101,757, Jan-14-Jan-16, contact: Eileen Kaner
  • Pathways to Impact funding, Durham University, £13,500, Feb-14-Jan-15, contact: Shelina Visram
  • SPHR Evaluation Guidance, School for Public Health Research (SPHR), £42,353.00, Apr-14-Mar-15, contact: Jean Adams
  • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), £4,707,329.00, Apr-14-Mar-19, contact: Ashley Adamson
  • National Trial of Tonsillectomy in Adults (NATTINA), NIHR £1,399,268, Jul-14-Mar-19, contact: Catherine Haighton

2013

  • The Health Foundation PhD award for improvement science, The Health Foundation £694,403, Oct-13-Sep-13, contact: Luke Vale
  • NIHR Research Design Service North East, NIHR, £5,011,816, Oct-13-Sep-18, contact: Falko Sniehotta

2012

  • FSA Scotland (INTAKE24), Food Standards Agency Scotland, £629,040.00, Jan-12-Feb-14, contact: Ashley Adamson
  • NIHR SPHR, UK Clinical Research Collaboration £2,113,676.00. Apr-12-Mar-17, contact: Ashley Adamson
  • Shifting the gravity of spending? Exploring methods for supporting public health commissioners in priority-setting to improve population health and address health inequalities, NIHR SPHR £245,628, Nov-12-May-15, contact: David Hunter

2010

  • Addictions and Lifestyles in Contemporary Europe: Reframing Addictions Project - ALICE-RAP, European Commission, £10,027,917, Jan-10-Jan-16, contact: Eileen Kaner
  • Looking at Economic Analyses of Drugs and Economic Recession (LEADER) European Commission, £392,690, Jan-15-Jan-17, contact: Eileen Kaner

 

An evaluation of transformational change in NHS North East

The outputs and events from this study are all on Durham University's Centre for Public Policy and Health website.

Publications

2013

Jonathan Erskine, David J Hunter, Adrian Small, Chris Hicks, Tom McGovern, Ed Lugsden, Paula Whitty, Nick Steen, and Martin Paul Eccles. Leadership and transformational change in healthcare organisations: A qualitative analysis of the North East Transformation System. Health Serv Manage Res, February 2013; vol. 26, 1: pp. 29-37.

2009

Erskine J, Hunter D J, Hicks C, McGovern T, Scott E, Lugsden E, Kunonga E, Whitty P. 'New Development: First steps towards an evaluation of the North East Transformation System', Public Money & Management, September 2009.

NETS Research Dissemination Event
A research dissemination event took place on 11 November 2013 to provide an invited audience of NHS staff in North East England with some of the main findings from the research project, and to promote discussion about the future of the NETS. The presentation from the research dissemination event is available here.

Health Services Research Network (HSRN) Symposium 2012
The HSRN Symposium, held in Manchester 19-20 June 2012, is one of the leading showcase events for health services research. The NETS Research Team submitted an abstract on early, emerging issues related to leadership and sustainability. This was accepted for oral presentation. Click on the web links below for further HSRN content:

ISQua 2012 International Conference
The International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) conference took place in Geneva, 21-24 October 2012. The conference's scientific committee accepted an abstract based on emerging findings from the NETS research. More information on the ISQua conference.

From April 2010 to May 2012 the research team included an NIHR Management Fellow, Allison Welsh, who contributed both her extensive experience of quality improvement programmes in the NHS and her knowledge of the structures and leadership of the organisations that comprise NHS North East.

Scoping study
In 2008 the research team was commissioned to undertake a scoping study as a prelude to the NIHR SDO research call. Read the final report.

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Transformational change presentation

Shifting the gravity of spending? Exploring methods for supporting public health commissioners in priority-setting to improve population health and address health inequalities

The process and impact of change in the school food policy on food and nutrient intake of children aged 4-7 and 11-12 years both in and out of school

The outputs from this study can all be found on the Public Health Research Consortium website.

Publications

2013

Spence S, Delve J, Stamp E, Matthews JNS, White M, Adamson AJ. The Impact of Food and Nutrient-Based Standards on Primary School Children's Lunch and Total Dietary Intake: A Natural Experimental Evaluation of Government Policy in England. PLoS One 2013, 8(10), e78298.

Adamson, A., Spence, S., Reid, L., Conway, R., Palmer, A., Stewart, E., McBratney, J., Cather, L., Beattie, S. and Nelson, M. (2013) 'School food standards in the United Kingdom: implementation and evaluation', Public Health Nutrition, 16(6), pp. 968-981.

Events

2017

Shifting the Gravity of Spending? Workshop to explore methods in public health priority-setting. 17 January, Danubius Hotel Regents Park, London. 

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