The CATALYST Programme: Working with new GPs to re-energise General Practice across Humber coast & vale Jan 1, 2021 - Jul 31, 2026
Collaboration between CCGs across Humber Coast and Vale and HYMS for workforce innovation and evaluation
All Projects (37)
PrimaryBreathe: programme to develop and test a brief remote primary care intervention for chronic breathlessness Sep 1, 2022 - Aug 31, 2027
Breathlessness affects the daily lives of one in ten adults and a quarter of those aged over 70. The number of people experiencing breathlessness is growing worldwide as long-term health conditions, like heart or lung disease, become more common. COV...
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The clinical, social and cost effectiveness of a decision support tool to optimise tailored community-based tailored management of sleep (TIMES) for people living with dementia or mild cognitive impairment and sleep disturbance TIMES - Tailored ManagEment of Sleep TIMES Feb 1, 2022 - Jan 31, 2027
NIHR Programme Grant: deprescribing hypnotics
TRANSFORM: YCR Cancercare: Experiences of diagnostic pathways and cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic Apr 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024
The global coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has led to the disruption of cancer care services, as healthcare resources (personnel, facilities) were reprioritised to respond to the pandemic. The implications of this for cancer outcomes and patients’ ps...
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Public Involvement Funds Apr 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2022
Cancer screening is effective at preventing the onset of cancer and reducing cancer deaths. However, there are widespread inequalities in the uptake of cancer screening. Cervical screening uptake is lower among ethnic minority patients, patients who...
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WISE GP Fellowship Jun 1, 2021 - Jul 31, 2023
HEE funding to support scholarship activity to develop, implementand evaluate a MOOC tackling extended professional skills for GP practice
SPLENDID: Social Prescribing for people to Live ENjoyably with Dementia/memory problems In Daily life Oct 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2027
Evaluating the effectiveness and acceptability of free door to door transport to increase the uptake of breast screening appointments in Yorkshire: A cluster randomised GP pilot trial Jun 1, 2023 - Jul 31, 2025
Breast screening is one of the key tools in identifying breast cancer at an early stage. It is currently offered to women between the ages of 50 and 70 on a three yearly cycle. Whilst nationally breast screening uptake is 70% this leaves 30% of wom...
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ENHANCE –TailorEd iNtervention for brain HeAlth aNd Cognitive augmEntation Jan 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2028
Primary research question: does a 24-week technology-based multi-domain intervention targeting potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia (BELL) in cognitively healthy adults older than 60 years of age lead to improved change in cognition at 1...
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TRANSFORM: AT RISK BOWEL SCREENING Oct 1, 2021 - Oct 31, 2022
TRANSFORM: The development of a mobile phone app to capture the journey time and patient experience throughout a day in the life of cancer patient attending hospital. Oct 1, 2021 - Oct 31, 2022
People with cancer have to travel to specialist cancer hospitals to access treatments such as radiotherapy. A number of studies have identified an association between patients living further away from a cancer centre and being less likely to be treat...
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Catch up HPV screening project Apr 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2027
In 2019, HPV testing replaced cytology (a smear) as the first (primary) cervical screening test. This project will offer a catch-up HPV test to women now aged 65-79 who exited the screening programme before ever having a primary HPV test. This will i...
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Measuring the travel burden from attending radiotherapy treatment. Testing a bespoke mobile phone application with cancer patients Oct 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2023
People with cancer have to travel to specialist hospitals to access treatments such as radiotherapy. Living further away has been associated with being less likely to receive radiotherapy. For those who do travel, difficult journeys to and from hospi...
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Publication Costs Award: PC/38 Nov 28, 2018 - Feb 25, 2023
Bereaved people need a supportive response from those around them. Knowing children's and surviving parents' needs following parental death is the first step to ensuring a supportive response. However, no systematic review has reported on this phenom...
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Exploring GP referral behavior for serious non-specific symptoms where cancer is suspected Apr 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
This is project will be funded through money from the York and Scarborough Trust. To look at the referral behaviour of GPs when faced with a patient with vague symptoms that could be cancer.
The funding would come from York and Sc...
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