Projects

Current studies

• Acupuncture Clinical Trials
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for treatment resistant depression in primary care (COBALT)
• Development and Implementation of a European Guideline and Training Standards for Diabetes Prevention (IMAGE)
• The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of exercise referral schemes: a systematic review and economic evaluation (ERS)
• The effectiveness and cost effectiveness of telephone triage of patients requesting same day consultations in general practice (ESTEEM)
• Engaging Offenders with Common Mental Health Problems (Engager 1)
• Evaluation of the GMC multi-source feedback questionnaires for potential use in the revalidation of UK doctors
• Experience of primary care for people of a South Asian ethnicity: interviews and survey
• General Practice Patient Survey (GPPS)
• Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
• Improving Community Health Networks (ICHNet)
• Pilot study of acupuncture in a group setting for chronic knee pain (Scruti-knee)
• Treatment Options Patients Use for Pain (TOPUP)
• Waste the Waist

Recently completed studies

• Application of nettle sting for persistent knee pain
• Care for Offenders: Continuity of Access (COCOA)
• The Devon Ageing and Quality of Life study (DAQoL)
• Decision rule for severe symptoms and complications of acute red throat in everyday practice (DESCARTE)
• Exploring access to out-of-hours health care for patients with cancer
• Financial Assessment and Benefits (FAB)
• GMC Patient and Colleague Questionnaire Study 
• Health Enhancing Activity in Lung Therapy (The HEALTH Study)
• Marma Therapy
• Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Released Prisoners: the Role of the Probation Service. A Scoping Study
• MESH Asthma Self-Care Pilot Study
• Out-of-hours Care - Developing a User-based Measure of Quality
• Pain Clinic Practitioners' Beliefs About the Causality of, and Expectations for Treatment of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
• A pragmatic randomised controlled trial to evaluate physical activity as a treatment for depression (TREAD)
• Preventing falls in Parkinson’s disease: an exploratory study
• Professional Experience of Governance and Incentives (PEGI)
• Sickness Absence Project
• Special Messages in Primary Care Study
• Suicide and Deliberate Self Harm Prevention Project
• The effect of targeted exercise on falls and function for people with Parkinson's disease (GETuP study)
• Upstream Healthy Living Centre
• Ways to Address Knowledge Education and Understanding in Pre-Diabetes (WAKEUP)