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R & D Newsletters
Winter 2020/21
- Sir Michael Marmot on the research that pinpoints health inequalities
- Steve Pilling on opening pathways to BAME mental health services
- Emmanuel Rollings-Kamara on how diversity breeds confidence
- Black female researchers call for academia to help spread inclusion
- Vanessa Apea on developing and encouraging BAME role models
Spring 2019
- Hopes rest on AI detecting early signs of breakdown
- Mental health experts share UCL institute’s umbrella
- Regional accent emphasises strengths of inspection
- Whitehall slow to act on policy unit’s speedy start
- Major grants boost development of new ways to tackle dementia
- Child speech therapy trial aims for empowerment
- Pathways to training opportunities
Spring 2019
- Playing the Long Game: Boost for research in NHS 10-year plan
- Nick Lemoine: Influence of CRN spreads far and wide
- Shared Ambition: Patients given frontline role in studies
- Untangling the Web: Judith Stephenson on pregnancy choices
- Attractive options: "Smear" campaign given a positive spin
- Q&A Brexit Anxieties: Martin McKee's fears over leaving the EU
- Power of Participation: Service users' pride of place in research
- plus training and funding opportunities
Autumn 2018
- Future of Research: Dame Anne Johnson on Health 2040
- Tale of an NHS Timeline: Seventy years of being the best
- An Age-Old Enemy: Rob Howard on dementia care
- Hard Road to Rehab: Helen Killaspy on ‘virtual asylums’
- The Sexual Revolution: Claudia Estcourt on changing attitudes
- Out of Harm’s Way: Young people and mental health
- The Cinderella Science: Anne Lingford-Hughes on addiction
- Picture of Health: Life-saving power of clinical trials
- plus training and funding opportunities
Spring 2018
- Word on the Street: Core work helps tackle gang violence
- Q&A Andrew Hayward: Harnessing the power of Big Data
- Priceless Histories: Patient records and the mortality gap
- Profile Richard Watt: Biting into health inequalities
- Burst of Activity: New therapy targets depression
- Homing in on Neglect: Study highlights care home abuse
- plus training and funding opportunities
Winter 2017/18
- Breaking Barriers: Support for new South Asian mums
- Q&A Mike Crowford: New view on personality disorder
- Profile Brynmor Lloyd-Evans: Fine balance of policy and science
- High-Impact Hopes: Sexual health trial targets HIV rates
- Help to Beat Obesity: Mind matters in bariatric outcomes
- Prime Movers: UCL unit's clinical trials successes
- plus training and funding opportunities
Autumn 17
- Pill-on-a-string: early detection of throat cancer
- Q&A Glyn Lewis: Uplifting approach to mental health
- Profile Paul Ramchandani: Power of LEGO and child's play
- Positive images: How video can aid parenting skills
- Cluster Boom: Barnet boosts GP research skills
- Changing TACK: New app can help lift depression
- plus training and funding opportunities
Spring 2017
- Women’s Cancer Boost: Developing an early warning system
- Clearing Up Confusion: Delirium and dementia links
- Profile Angela Hassiotis: Champion of intellectual disability
- Q&A Dr Kamaldeep Bhui: Healthy approach to radicalisation
- Genes May Bring Ill Luck: GPs lead South Asian health study
- Winning Formula: West London R&D team success
- plus training and funding opportunities
Winter 2016/17
- Alzheimer’s Hype: ‘Game changer’ drugs fail trial
- Acute Awareness: New look at mental health crises
- The Avatar Effect: Virtual reality in depression therapy
- Profile Dr Sarah Yardley: Moving tales of palliative care
- Word to the Wise: Shedding lights on statins debate
- A Woman of Substance: Researcher’s breakthrough role
- plus training and funding opportunities
Autumn 2016
- Mental Health Care for Refugees: Evidence and recommendations for good practice
- WHO event explores the future of mental health care
- Care Planning and Care Coordination in Community Mental Health: What makes it collaborative, recovery-focused and personalised?
- Burnout syndrome among psychiatric trainees
- Social networks of patients with psychosis
- Can mental health interventions change social networks?
- Supporting patients with Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): an innovative care pathway piloted in primary care
- Double take on research quality
- Adolescent Sibling Groups within a CAMHS Disability Service: Service User Perspectives
- Studies recruiting: Volunteering in Mental Health Care for People with Psychosis plus: Upcoming Events and New Publications
Summer 2016
- Open to Influence: Researchers escape ‘gagging clause’
- Brexit Backlash: Concerns about referendum impact
- Cutting-edge Chaos: London’s social psychiatry elite
- Profile Prof Claudia Estcourt: Apps and happy outcomes
- Positive Attitudes: Reducing mental health relapses
- Harnessing Powers: Primary care research forum
Spring 2016
- Cutting dementia risk: Project to identify the warning signs
- What causes wellness? Link between poverty and poor health
- Profile Dr Fiona Nolan: Promoting the research role of nurses
- Show of strength: Focus on major mental health studies
- Primary inspiration: Crucial support for service delivery
- VIP Treatment: Help for older victims of crime
Winter 2015/16
- HIV Game-changer: Drug trial points to lower risk
- Profile Helen Killaspy: Creative support on the sidelines
- Matter of Principals: Call for research investigators
- Q&A Anne Lingford-Hughes: Unblocking the road to recovery
- Double take on quality: Sponsorship and Compliance
- Time for Action: Hypertension counterattack
- Alternative standpoint: Homeopathy faces threat
Winter 2015
- What is meant by reciprocity in professional – service user relationships?
- Streetwise; using serious gaming to support preparation for discharge from secure forensic mental health services
- HRA Approval is coming!
- Are helpful treatments for PTSD available in Europe?
- City/ELFT researchers at 21st International Network of Psychiatric Nursing Research Conference
- What it means to be a Principal Investigator and how Noclor can support staff who want to be one
- Financial incentives to improve adherence to antipsychotic depot medication: Does it change over time
- ELFT Service User and Carer Research Group now up and running
- Studies recruiting: How can a positive self-help technology be used for depression & anxiety?
- plus: Upcoming Events and New Publications
Summer 2015
- Psychological interventions in people with HIV disease
- Are group psychotherapeutic treatments effective for patients with schizophrenia?
- Medication administration errors on mental health wards
- Modelling clinical decision-making for high-risk offenders using Bayesian Networks
- Cognitive therapy for Paranoid, Schizotypal, and Schizoid Personality Disorders
- SUGAR invites you to enter the Dragons’ Den!
- Studies recruiting: Interested in volunteering as a companion to a person with mental illness?
- Plus: Upcoming Events and New Publications
Spring 2015
- The political mission of psychiatry
- Clinicians' experiences of offering financial incentives to patients to increase their adherence to anti-psychotic medication
- ENRICH peer support for discharge NIHR research programme
- Continuity across inpatient and outpatient mental health care or specialisation of teams?
- Can online social networking help patients to increase their social contacts?
- The inter-relationship between mood, self-esteem and response styles in adolescent offspring of bipolar parents
- Studies recruiting: It's OK to ask about clinical research
- plus: Upcoming Events and New Publications
Winter 2014/15
- Participation in life in advanced older age
- Mental health care in Immigration Removal Centres
- Study to investigate diabetes care in people with severe mental illness
- Are psychiatric bed removals related to increasing prison population rates?
- Developing a positive psychology app for common mental health conditions
- Nine out of ten people would be willing to take part in clinical research
- Building capacity for case studies - a new initiative for ELFT
- Dr Catherine Carr awarded NIHR/HEE Clinical Leadership
- Studies recruiting: The Neuropsychological Profile of Early-Onset Obsessive-Complusive Disorder
- Plus: Upcoming Events and New Publications
Autumn 2014
- Are some clinicians just better than others?
- What can facilitate (or hinder) family involvement in mental health care?
- Psychiatric and psychosocial morbidity before and after surgical treatment for refractory epilepsy
- A sweet future of patient & public involvement in research ensured
- Millfields Unit: The only quantitative evidence of efficacy to emerge from the DSPD programme?
- European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees: a key stakeholder for psychiatric training in Europe
- plus: Upcoming Events and New Publications
Summer 2014
- Treatments can focus on resources rather than deficits of patients
- SUGAR Wins National Public Engagement Award
- Changes to booking and submission of NHS RECs
- Carers' Involvement in Acute Mental Health Treatment
- Understanding conduct disorder: The ways in which mothers attempt to make sense of their children's behaviour
- Serious Gaming in Forensic Mental Health
- Adverse events and deterioration reported by participants in a trial of therapies for CFS
- plus: Upcoming Events and New Publications
Spring 2014
- Sugar coated: Service user and carer collaboration in mental health nursing research
- Duration of untreated psychosis in adolescents: Ethnic differences and clinical profiles
- New research planned in diabetes self-management
- East London joins the noclor partnership
- Involving Service Users and Carers in Research
- After Cancer: Surviving or Living
- Recent Publications
Winter 2013/14
- Financial Incentives to Improve Adherence to Antipsychotic Maintenance Medication
- Can DBT Keep People out of Hospital?
- Wanted: Research Study Participants
- Predicting Future Violence among Individuals with Psychopathy
- Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders and Associations between Adult ADHD and Population Violence
- Developing Nonverbal Group Therapies
- Services Fail to Treat Prisoners with Schizophrenia
- The COFI Project
- plus: Upcoming Events and New Publications
Spring 2013
- East London Connects to the World - WHO Collaborating Centre
- Social Relationships in Schizophrenia
- Patient-Clinical Communication
- Mental Health Care Following War
- Patient-Reported Outcomes and Experiences
- Trends in Institutionalised Psychiatric Care
- Mental Health Care for Marginalised Groups
- Developing Novel Non-Verbal Therapies
- Upcoming Events
- New Publications
Autumn 2012
- Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- Assessments and admissions during the first six years of a UK medium secure DSPD service
- The INFORM Project: A Service User-Led Research Endeavour
- High Prevalence of Childhood Diabetes
- Nonverbal communication in schizophrenia: A 3-D motion-capture analysis
- Smoking cessation and serious mental illness
- Time to end the distinction between mental and neurological illnesses
- Tenth Annual East London Mental Health Research Presentation Day
- Upcoming events
- New Publications
Summer 2012
- Mental Health Care for Socially Marginalised Groups
- Improving Access to Health Care for Difficult to Reach Groups
- Personality Disorder - Does It Exist in Adolescents?
- Do young people with HIV feel stigmatised as a result of their status?
- Family Care Givers Experience of Hospital Admission
- Long term Impact of War on Healthcare Costs
- Group Music Therapy with people with PTSD
- Recent publications
Spring 2012
- Evaluating body psychotherapy as a treatment for the negative symptoms of schizophrenia
- Dancing Down Memory Lane
- Patient experience – the ingredient missing from cost-effectiveness calculations
- Streamlining Research Ethics Review
- Exploring the link between treatment satisfaction and symptoms
- Mental Health Research in the NHS: The Bottom Line
- Upcoming events
- New Publications
