CS-Y Studies: Understanding and reducing inequalities for people with cancer: A programme of work based in Yorkshire

Professor Miriam Johnson Miriam.Johnson@hull.ac.uk
Professor

Professor Una Macleod U.M.Macleod@hull.ac.uk
Dean / Professor of Primary Care Medicine

TRANSFORM: Reducing Inequalities in Cancer Outcomes in Yorkshire: Realising our potential for innovation in Diagnosis, Patient Management, Survivorship and Palliative Care Research Sep 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2026
The death rate is higher in Yorkshire than the rest of England resulting in about 200 extra deaths each year of which more than half are in Hull. There are other significant cancer outcome inequalities between different groups; for example poorer pe... Read More about TRANSFORM: Reducing Inequalities in Cancer Outcomes in Yorkshire: Realising our potential for innovation in Diagnosis, Patient Management, Survivorship and Palliative Care Research.

PEOPLE: Primary care and community Engagement to Optimise time to Presentation with Lung cancEr symptoms in HULL Jun 1, 2017 - Jun 30, 2023
More people are diagnosed with and die from lung cancer in Hull than any other place in Yorkshire. Our aim is to improve earlier diagnosis of lung cancer by [1] getting people to see their doctor if they get lung symptoms and [2] getting GPs to refe... Read More about PEOPLE: Primary care and community Engagement to Optimise time to Presentation with Lung cancEr symptoms in HULL.

RDSI: A randomised controlled trial to determine the clinical and cost effectiveness of a self-management intervention for the respiratory distress symptom cluster (breathlessness-cough-fatigue) in lung cancer Jan 1, 2017 - May 31, 2019

REDUCE: REviewing long term anti-Depressant Use by Careful monitoring in Everyday practice programme Oct 1, 2016 - Jun 30, 2023

BREATHE: Breathlessness RElief AT HomE Apr 1, 2019 - Oct 31, 2021
A feasibility study to address this RQ:
Does a paramedic-administered short non-pharmacological complex breathlessness intervention improve breathlessness and reduce conveyance to ED for people with breathlessness crisis compared with usual pr... Read More about BREATHE: Breathlessness RElief AT HomE.