Type 1 RCF Funded Projects
These are very early stage projects, exploring a particular health condition or the needs of a particular patient group to find out what research is most needed. Mainly these projects involve talking to the people who plan, deliver and receive health and care services.
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- A qualitative study exploring ethnic minority patients’ under-standing of the link between their physical and mental health to improve patient care
- A series of public and patient involvement (PPI) and stakeholder workshops to explore and refine the scope for educational and supported-self management interventions to support people with cancer-related chronic pain
- Change understanding and awareness of HPV and associated health conditions across the life course
- Chronic Pain in Weston-Super-Mare, Worle and Villages
- Co-design a research question exploring how Lifestyle Medicine interventions may improve the health outcomes of children in care through the development and evaluation of a trauma-informed, evidence-based intervention framework specifically designed for this vulnerable population
- Community researcher to establish the research priorities of Chinese, Caribbean and South Asian communities living with dementia.
- Continence management and antimicrobial resistance specifically through development of a digital catheter passport
- Continuity of care in general practice and its relationship with access to care and health inequalities.
- Engaging Stakeholders to Identify and Address Outdoor Occupational Risks Contributing to Chronic Kidney Disease of Non-Traditional Origin (CKDnt)
- Experiences of HRT prescribing in the perimenopause
- Explore a novel approach to reducing health inequalities in people who use drugs. Understanding the acceptability of, practicalities around and barriers to the introduction of a community pharmacy-based health check for people who use drugs
- Exploring how loneliness affects people living with chronic pain, and what role community based and nature based social prescribing might play in improving connection, wellbeing, and self management
- Exploring research capacity among the pharmacy workforce
- Exploring stakeholder concerns around children and young people’s access to community mental health care
- Exploring the understanding and experiences of gynaecological issues (including endometriosis) for under-served women from ethnically minoritised communities. This will include interactions with healthcare professionals while accessing care
- Exploring ways to deliver primary care for people aged over 50 living with HIV
- Functional Neurological Disorders – Ambulance services recognition, care and management of FND patient presentations.
- Head and neck cancer patients who have localised disease but are not fit for radical radiotherapy: the patient experience following completion of palliative radiotherapy
- Healthcare professionals’ active engagement in promoting lifestyle management
- How health inequalities experienced by disabled people have been exacerbated by the cost-of-living crisis
- Improving continuity of care and health outcomes of people with Learning Disabilities living in assisted housing. Developing and enhancing work initiated by the BNSSG ICB
- Investigating how the buildings and interior spaces through which primary care is delivered impact the workforce and patients’ wellbeing and experience of care and their health
- Low-burden treatment approaches for Fibromyalgia
- Menopause: Perimenopause, awareness, knowledge and support for women experiencing menopausal symptoms
- Minor trauma in older adults (SilverMinT)
- Nutritional assessment of the homeless population. A collaboration with patients and stakeholders to refine a new nutritional assessment tool.
- Osteoporotic fractures and injuries from fall
- Provision of mental health support for people with serious, life-limiting illnesses including those receiving end-of-life care within a primary care setting
- Public and patient involvement (PPI) and stakeholder workshops to explore and refine educational and supported self-management interventions that support people with cancer-related chronic pain
- Racial inequalities in mental health
- Reasons for ordering laboratory tests and the cascade effects of testing in UK primary care
- Reducing Health Inequality amongst a Somali Community in Lawrence Hill, Bristol with a focus on cardiovascular risk factor interventions developed through community based participatory research
- Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) inequalities in underserved communities
- The impact of changes to general practice delivery due to COVID-19
- The impact of operational improvements on patient experience in multi-specialist GP practices
- The management of blunt chest wall injuries following trauma, in adults presenting to standalone Urgent Treatment Centres (UTC) and Minor Injury Units (MIU) with access to chest X-Ray only