Expertise
Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement
Biography
I am a Research Associate in the PenARC Patient and Public involvement team, supporting the coordination of effective involvement and engagement of patients and public members in the ‘Children’s Health & Maternity’, as well as the ‘Ageing, Dementia and Frailty’, priority programme.
My background is in dementia care and stroke rehabilitation, working for a number of years as a support worker for the NHS and the Stroke Association, before studying Medical Sciences and supporting a number of frailty studies.
Projects
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) to sustain independence for older people living with heart failure with preserved ejection fracture (HFpEF) and frailty: The CHART Trial
- DREAM:Digital and Remote Enhancements for the Assessment and Management of older people living with frailty
- Children’s Health and Maternity programme
Publications
- Prioritising child health and maternity evidence-based interventions or service models: a stakeholder-driven process
- Nurses’ strategies for overcoming barriers to fundamental nursing care in patients with COVID-19 caused by infection with the SARS-COV-2 virus: Results from the ‘COVID-NURSE’ survey
- Fundamental nursing care in patients with the SARS-CoV-2 virus: results from the ‘COVID-NURSE’ mixed methods survey into nurses’ experiences of missed care and barriers to care
- COVID-NURSE: evaluation of a fundamental nursing care protocol compared with care as usual on experience of care for noninvasively ventilated patients in hospital with the SARS-CoV-2 virus—protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
- Rehabilitation to enable recovery from COVID-19: a rapid systematic review
Other team members
Rebecca Summers
Postgraduate Research Associate
Lauren Asare
Graduate Research Assistant
Tanya Hynd
Patient and Public Involvement Co-ordinator
Dr Kristin Liabo
Associate Professor