Factors influencing antimicrobial resistance in residential care homes
A brief literature review by Christine Amedor I am Christine, a third-year Medical Physiology undergraduate at the University of Leicester who recently worked alongside the SAPPHIRE research team as part of a 3-week ‘Accelerate your career’ internship. This blog post is one of the by-products of my work on the ‘Preserving Antibiotics though Safe […]
Careers: Work experience with the SAPPHIRE research group – Heather Thorley
SAPPHIRE recently had the opportunity to have a Sociology undergraduate student, Heather Thorley, do a work experience placement with us. Below, Heather writes about her time with SAPPHIRE and what she’s taken away from the experience. In early January, I began my work placement alongside the SAPPHIRE research team. I have thoroughly enjoyed […]
Different strokes for different folks: Two patient safety tales
A bit about me I’ve been a researcher and part-time PhD student at SAPPHIRE at the University of Leicester for nearly four years. My day-to-day work is concerned with exploring how NHS hospitals ensure and improve patient safety – particularly focusing on organisational culture– while my PhD research is concerned with exploring patient safety from […]
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, […]
The risks of feeding back the results of clinical trials to participants
Feeding back the results of clinical trials to participants has long been seen as good ethical research practice, and new guidance from the Health Research Authority, the national regulatory body for research in England, makes it clear that feedback is part of researchers’ commitment to participants. But what are the consequences of sharing results […]
Improvements and Ice-cream
I’d like to start with a story about a young Tanzanian boy named Erasto Mpemba. It was 1969, it was very hot, and he was making ice cream. Ice-cream making was an extremely popular pastime and there was fierce competition to be fast to ensure that you would definitely get a spot in the freezer […]
Programme Theory – What is it and how will it help me to improve patient care?
Previously, I thought about how I have intuitively understood theory, and how I’ve been using it without realising it. But now, I have read a ‘using theory’ blog and a paper which proposes that better use of theory could enhance my improvement efforts. As I write this blog, I’m still not convinced if this extra […]
A Practitioner’s Musings on Theory and Quality Improvement
I am a PhD student and a practicing extended scope physiotherapist and I’d like to find out how my NHS colleagues can use information from quality improvement projects to change care for the better. If your quality improvement project has worked, helping others to understand what you did (so that the same results can be […]
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