Browsing Research publications by Author "Davies, Susan"
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Can district nurses and care home staff improve bowel care for older people using a clinical benchmarking tool?
Goodman, Claire; Davies, Susan; Norton, Christine; Fader, Mandy; Morris, Jackie; Wells, Mandy; Gage, Heather (2013-12)A quasi-experimental study tested a clinical benchmarking tool (Essence of Care) to improve bowel-related care for older people living in six care homes. In the intervention care homes, district nurses and care home staff ... -
Can networks of research active care homes for older people be created and sustained?
Davies, Susan; Goodman, Claire; Iliffe , Steve; Manthorpe , Jill; Carrick, Natasha; Smith , Adam (2013-06-26)Background: In the UK care homes are one of the main providers of long term care for older people with dementia. Despite the recent increase in care home research, residents with dementia are often excluded (Gordon et al, ... -
Data Driven Museums
Davies, Susan (SHARE Museums East, 2023-02-22) -
Effective health care for older people resident in care homes : The Optimal study protocol for realist review
Goodman, Claire; Gordon, Adam L; Martin , Finbarr; Davies, Susan; Iliffe, Steve; Bowman, Clive; Schneider, Justine; Meyer, Julienne; Victor, Christina; Gage, Heather; Gladman, John; Dening, Tom (2014-05-24)Background: Care homes in the UK rely on general practice for access to specialist medical and nursing care as well as referral to therapists and secondary care. Service delivery to care homes is highly variable in both ... -
Effective heath care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review
Goodman, Claire; Dening , Tom; Gordon , Adam; Davies, Susan; Meyer, Julienne; Martin , Finbarr; Gladman, John; Bowman, Clive; Victor, Christina (2016-07-16)Background Care home residents in England have variable access to health care services. There is currently no coherent policy or consensus about the best arrangements to meet these needs. The purpose of this review was to ... -
Enabling research in care homes : an evaluation of a national network of research ready care homes
Davies, Susan; Goodman, Claire; Manthorpe , Jill; Smith , Adam; Carrick, Natasha; Iliffe , Steve (2014-04-05)In the UK care homes are one of the main providers of long term care for older people with dementia. Despite the recent increase in care home research, residents with dementia are often excluded from studies. Care home ... -
ENRICH : a new innovation to facilitate dementia research in care homes
Goodman, Claire; Davies, Susan (2012)There are currently almost three times as many care home beds as NHS hospital beds in England, and the number is projected to rise significantly by 2019 (Laing and Buisson, 2009). The majority of care homes have no on-site ... -
Establishing new nursing roles : A case study of the English community matron initiative
Drennan, V.; Goodman, Claire; Manthorpe, J.; Davies, Susan; Scott, C.; Gage, H.; Lliffe, S. (2011)Aim and objective : To examine the factors affecting the extent to which English policy on the introduction of community matrons for people with chronic conditions was implemented. Background : Improving health services ... -
Evaluation of the End of Life Care Train the Trainer (TTT) Education Model
Goodman, Claire; Mayrhofer, Andrea; Handley, Melanie; Smeeton, N.C.; Amador, Sarah; Davies, Susan (University of Hertfordshire, 2014) -
The feasibility of a train-the-trainer approach to end of life care training in care homes: an evaluation
Mayrhofer, Andrea; Goodman, Claire; Smeeton, N.C.; Handley, Melanie; Amador, Sarah; Davies, Susan (2016-01-22)Background: The ABC End of Life Education Programme trained approximately 3000 care home staff in End of Life (EoL) care. An evaluation that compared this programme with the Gold Standards Framework found that it achieved ... -
Good practice outside the care homes
Goodman, Claire; Davies, Susan (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011) -
The importance of staff support in the provision of emotionally sensitive care
Holman, Cheryl; Crowhurst, Keith (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009) -
Integrated working between residential care homes and primary care : a survey of care homes in England
Gage, Heather; Dickinson, Angela; Victor, Christina; Williams, Peter; Cheynel, Jerome; Davies, Susan; Iliffe, Steve; Froggatt, Katherine; Martin, Wendy; Goodman, Claire (2012-11-14)Older people living in care homes in England have complex health needs due to a range of medical conditions, mental health needs and frailty. Despite an increasing policy expectation that professionals should operate in ... -
Nurse case management and general practice : implications for GP consortia
Iliffe, Steve; Drennan, Vari; Manthorpe, Jill; Gage, Heather; Davies, Susan; Massey, Helen; Sott, Cherill; Brearley, Sally; Goodman, Claire (2011-10)Reducing hospital admission rates by nurse-led case management (community matrons) is attractive in theory but in practice is challenging for a range of reasons that need to be understood in commissioning similar services ... -
Nurse-led case management in the National Health Service : bridging clinical and social worlds
Manthorpe, Jill; Goodman, Claire; Drennan, Vari; Davies, Susan; Masey, Helen; Gage, Heather; Scott, Cheryll; Brearley, Sally; Iliffe, Steve (2012)To understand the effects of Nurse Case Managers (NCMs) working in primary care in the English National Health Service (NHS) from multiple perspectives and how this new role impacts on social workers, this paper reports ... -
OPTIMAL: A realistic evaluation of what supports effective health care for care home residents
Davies, Susan; Goodman, Claire; Gordon , Adam; Schneider, Justine; Gladman, John; Dening , Tom; Bell , Brian (2013-07-09)This poster presents early findings from phase one of OPTIMAL, a 3 year study that asked: 1.What is the range of health service delivery models that provide health care to care home residents? 2.What features of these ... -
Provision of NHS generalist and specialist services to care homes in England : review of surveys
Iliffe , Steve; Davies, Susan; Gordon, Adam L; Schneider, Justine; Dening , Tom; Bowman, Clive; Gage, Heather; Martin , Finbarr; Gladman, John; Victor, Christina; Meyer, Julienne; Goodman, Claire (2016-03-01)Background: The number of beds in care homes (with and without nurses) in the UK is three times greater than the number of beds in NHS hospitals. Care homes are predominantly owned by a range of commercial, not-for-profit ... -
Relationships, Expertise, Incentives, and Governance: Supporting Care Home Residents' Access to Health Care : An interview study from England
Goodman, Claire; Davies, Susan; Gordon, Adam L.; Meyer, Julienne; Dening , Tom; Gladman, John; Iliffe , Steve; Zubair , Maria; Bowman, Clive; Victor, Christina; Martin , Finbarr (2015-05-01)Objectives: To explore what commissioners of care, regulators, providers and care home residents in England identify as the key mechanisms or components of different service delivery models that support the provision of ... -
Supporting shared decision-making for older people with multiple health and social care needs: a protocol for a realist synthesis to inform integrated care models
Bunn, Frances; Goodman, Claire; Russell, Bridget; Davies, Susan (2017-02-07)Introduction: Including the patient or user perspective is a central organising principle of integrated care. Moreover, there is increasing recognition of the importance of strengthening relationships among patients, carers ... -
A systematic review of integrated working between care homes and health care services
Davies, Susan; Goodman, Claire; Bunn, Frances; Victor, Christina; Dickinson, Angela; Iliffe, Steve; Gage, Heather (2011)In the UK there are almost three times as many beds in care homes as in National Health Service (NHS) hospitals. Care homes rely on primary health care for access to medical care and specialist services. Repeated policy ...