Veronica Heney
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Cutting for Stone: Healing with kindness
Too often debates about ‘best practice’ in healthcare are held in remote forums, inaccessible to the people whose lives they impact because of physical distance, expensive paywalls and subscription policies, or unintelligible jargon. I was therefore delighted to read Abraham Verghese’s 2009 novel Cutting for Stone and find it dealing with issues of medicine, healing, […]
SAPPHIRE Spotlight: Emmilie Aveling
This week’s SAPPHIRE Spotlight profile will focus on the very exciting work of Dr Emmilie (Emma-Louise) Aveling. Emmilie is a Research Fellow in the SAPPHIRE group, who specialises in applied qualitative research in the fields of global health and healthcare quality and safety. Emmilie is currently based at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, […]
SAPPHIRE Spotlight: Damian Roland
We’re lucky in SAPPHIRE to have lots of incredible researchers doing fascinating work. These SAPPHIRE Spotlight profiles will highlight some of them and their exciting research projects. The series starts with Dr Damian Roland, who is a Consultant at the University of Leicester NHS Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the SAPPHIRE group. Damian’s […]
Using Theory in Improvement Research
A recently published paper seems the perfect start to this blog, exemplifying as it does SAPPHIRE’s concern with integrating the theory of social science academia with the practical world of healthcare improvement research. Mary Dixon-Woods and colleagues propose that better use of theory could enhance improvement efforts in quality and safety in healthcare. A popular […]
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