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Interdisciplinary Research in Health Sciences (IRIHS)

>£2.5m in ongoing and new research studies

107 peer-reviewed publications in 2022

27 doctoral students and a further 8 students outside IRIHS

Fever, represented as a frenzied beast, stands racked in the centre of a room, while a blue monster, representing ague, ensnares his victim by the fireside; a doctor writes prescriptions to the right. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.

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Interrupted or invigorated? Qualitative health research during the Covid-19 pandemic

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Explore the social science of innovation with this highly applied course to translate research findings into practical application.

New: MSc in Translational Health Sciences

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Weighing up the pros and cons - patients’ views and experiences of video consultations

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IRIHS, founded in 2015, is a mixed-method research unit led jointly by Professor Trish Greenhalgh and Associate Professor Sara Shaw. We undertake interdisciplinary research, teaching and applied scholarship in fields relating to clinical practice, organisation and delivery of health services, health policy, translational science (covering the social and behavioural science of innovation and adoption), digital health and the patient experience.

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Meet our DPhil students

Meet the team

Group Leads

Trish Greenhalgh

Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences
Sara Shaw

Professor of Health Policy & Practice

Resources

NASSS-CAT Tools

The NASSS-CAT tools have been developed to help you plan, undertake and evaluate technology-supported change projects in health or social care. They are based on the Non-adoption, Abandonment, and challenges to Scale-up, Spread, and Sustainability (NASSS) framework which has been combined with a complexity assessment toolkit.

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If we all wear masks, we stop droplets and protect others.

Aerosols and making spaces safe

Hands - Face - Space - Replace

A series of animated video summaries of Professor Trish Greenhalgh's research on preventing the spread of Covid-19.

Video resources

Video consulting in the NHS

Developed by Professor Sara Shaw and Professor Trish Greenhalgh from the IRIHS Team in collaboration with Barts Health NHS Trust and Design Science.

Guides for doctors and patients

Projects

Research studies

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Remote by Default 2: the “new normal”?

TOGETHER 2 study: Evaluating video and hybrid group consultations in general practice: mixed-methods, participatory study

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Mode of Consultation in General Practice (ModCons)

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Prioritising Health Research

OSIRIS

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Former research studies

Man doing video conference with doctor on a laptop

Remote-by-default care in the COVID-19 pandemic

SCiP: Supporting Consultations in Remote Physiotherapy

TRIPLE C

Video consulting during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

VOCAL: Virtual Online Consultations - Advantages and Limitations

IMPACT: Interventions to improve antimicrobial prescribing of doctors in training: A realist review

RAMESES - Realist And Meta-narrative Evidence Syntheses: Evolving Standards

MEMORABLE: Medication Management in Older People: Realist Approaches Based on Literature and Evaluation.

QuARC: Qualitative Analysis of Remote Consultations

Featured publications from 2022:

'I can't cope with multiple inputs': a qualitative study of the lived experience of 'brain fog' after COVID-19

Callan C. et al, (2022), BMJ open, 12

Understanding what happens to attendees after an NHS Health Check: a realist review

Duddy C. et al, (2022), BMJ Open, 12, e064237 - e064237

Using Linguistic Ethnography to Study Video Consultations: A Call to Action and Future Research Agenda

Seuren LM. and Shaw SE., (2022), Qualitative Health Research

Social prescribing for older people and the role of the cultural sector during the COVID ‐19 pandemic: What are link workers' views and experiences?

Tierney S. et al, (2022), Health & Social Care in the Community

Health worker experiences of implementing TB infection prevention and control: A qualitative evidence synthesis to inform implementation recommendations

van der Westhuizen H-M. et al, (2022), PLOS Global Public Health, 2, e0000292 - e0000292

The role of information infrastructures in scaling up video consultations during Covid-19: a time of opportunity, disruption and exposure (Preprint)

Wherton J. et al, (2022)

Safety implications of remote assessments for suspected COVID-19: Qualitative study in UK primary care

Wieringa S. et al, (2022), BMJ Quality and Safety

'It was like being hit with a brick': a qualitative study on the effect of clinicians' delivery of a diagnosis of eye disease for patients in primary and secondary care.

Ferrey A. et al, (2022), BMJ Open, 12

Why do GPs rarely do video consultations? qualitative study in UK general practice

Greenhalgh T. et al, (2022), British Journal of General Practice, 72, E351 - E360

Why doesn’t integrated care work? Using Strong Structuration Theory to explain the limitations of an English case

Hughes G. et al, (2021), Sociology of Health and Illness

How have remote and digital approaches impacted continuity? A mixed-studies systematic review

LADDS E. et al, (2022), British Journal of General Practice

UK newspapers “on the warpath”: media analysis of remote consulting in 2021

Mroz G. et al, (2022), British Journal of General Practice, BJGP.2022.0258 - BJGP.2022.0258

Implementation and delivery of group consultations for young people with diabetes in socioeconomically deprived, ethnically diverse settings.

Papoutsi C. et al, (2022), BMC Med, 20

Understanding how and why quality circles improve standards of practice, enhance professional development and increase psychological well-being of general practitioners: a realist synthesis

Rohrbasser A. et al, (2022), BMJ Open, 12, e058453 - e058453

Clinical risk in remote consultations in general practice: findings from in-COVID-19 pandemic qualitative research

Rosen R. et al, (2022), BJGP Open, 6

Latest publications

Countering sex and gender bias in cardiovascular research requires more than equal recruitment and sex disaggregated analyses
Journal article

Rau Steuernagel C. et al, (2023), BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 382
The NHS Health Check programme: a survey of programme delivery in England before and after the Covid-19 pandemic response
Journal article

Gadsby EW. et al, (2023), NIHR Open Research, 3, 32 - 32
What happens after an NHS Health Check? A survey and realist review
Journal article

DUDDY C. et al, (2023), Health and Social Care Delivery Research
How informal carers support video consulting: Findings from a qualitative study of physiotherapy, heart failure and cancer using linguistic ethnography (Preprint)
Preprint

Seuren LM. and Shaw S., (2023)
A realist review of medication optimisation of community dwelling service users with serious mental illness
Preprint

Howe J. et al, (2023)