SAPPHIRE hosts successful interdisciplinary workshop on antibiotic prescribing
Is antibiotic overuse compromising the efficacy of current drugs? Are we going to run out of effective antibiotics? What interdisciplinary approaches may be useful for addressing the problem? These were some of the questions tackled at an international workshop at University of Leicester on 4th and 5th October this year. The focus of the workshop […]
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, […]
Feasibility of using the Patient Activation Measure in the NHS
Introduction: The challenge of person-centred care Over recent years the push for the NHS to become more person-centred has been mounting, with increasing attention paid both to the importance of patients’ experiences of care and supporting them to manage their own health. This emphasis is made clear in the vision laid out in the NHS […]
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 […]
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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