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Study Summary
Meta-review of community health and social care for older people:
impact on hospital care
The Evidence Synthesis Working group (ESWG) is a collaboration of all nine primary care member departments of the School of Primary Care Research.
Primary care is increasingly under considerable pressure to meet the demands of an ageing population and to transform care with more done in the community, against a backdrop of ensuring new technologies are used whilst maintaining budgets. To address these issues we have formed a cross-school collaboration to address important questions with the aim of delivering a significant number of high impact systematic reviews to underpin effective care in important priority areas for the NHS. We are planning to deliver an ambitious program of 20 high quality evidence synthesis reviews under four different work streams.
Our aim is to produce high quality reviews that not only test what works, but also determine through the use of novel evidence synthesis methods (such as realist reviews and complex reviews) what works, in what situations, for whom; and identify clinical and methodology gaps that can inform future research, inform policy and develop robust practical interventions for primary care.
Collectively, the ESWG supports the ongoing NIHR SPCR capacity development programme by providing training, across the school, in evidence synthesis. We have a dedicated training group, with key objectives to provide training, and propagate best practice, in aspects of the more complex methods needed for evidence synthesis. We are achieving this by creating a number of capacity building activities (SPCR ESWG training and capacity development).
Our team
Carl Heneghan
Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine
Nadeem Qureshi
Clinical Professor
Professor Gene Feder
Professor of Primary Care
Dr Alyson Huntley
Senior Research Fellow in Evidence-Based Primary Health Care
Stephen Barclay
Voluntary Clinical Research Professor
Sophie Park
Professor of Primary Care and Medical Education
Joanna Lach
CEBM Administrative Assistant & EBM Teaching Coordinator
Amadea Turk
Senior Research Fellow
Ian Wellwood
Senior Research Associate
Professor Danielle van der Windt
Professor of Primary Care Epidemiology
Dr Beth Stuart
Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials Director
Chris Salisbury
Professor of Primary Health Care
Rupert Payne
Senior academic GP
Maria Panagioti
Professor of Health Services and Mental Health
Kamal R. Mahtani
Professor of Evidence Based Healthcare
