Evidence Synthesis Working Group
Urgent Care Interface
Workstream 1
End of life care and bereavement
Workstream 2
Assessing new drugs and technologies
Workstream 3
Service redesign in primary care
Workstream 4
ESWG study summaries
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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
Bristol: Julia Bailey, Gene Feder, Alyson Huntley, Chris Salisbury, Rupert Payne
Cambridge: Stephen Barclay, Isla Kuhn, Ian Wellwood, Mila Petrova, Anna De Simoni, Duncan Edwards, Jenny Lund, Zhirong Yang
Keele: Richard Riley, Danielle der Windt, Kym Snell, Jo Jordan, Elizabeth Cottrell, Annette Bishop, Bernadette Bartlam
Manchester: Maria Panagioti, Peter Bower, Harm van Marwijk, Evangelos Kontopantelis
Newcastle: Dawn Craig, Louise Robinson, Barbara Hanratty, Alexandra Smith, Terry Lisle
Nottingham: Joe Kai, Nadeem Qureshi
Oxford: Annette Pluddemann, Kamal Mahtani, Richard Hobbs, Geoffrey Wong, Carl Heneghan, Oghenekome Gbinigie, Nia Roberts, Anne-Marie Boylan, Amadea Turk, Stephanie Tierney, Georgia Richards, Joanna Lach
Southampton: Beth Stuart
UCL: Sophie Park, Elizabeth Murray, Irwin Nazareth, Jane Wilcox
Training & Capacity development
Department leads
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Carl Heneghan
University of Oxford
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Gene Feder
University of Bristol
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Alyson Huntley
University of Bristol
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Kamal Mahtani
University of Oxford
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Maria Panagioti
University of Manchester
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Rupert Payne
University of Bristol
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Chris Salisbury
University of Bristol
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Beth Stuart
University of Southampton
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Danielle Van der Windt
Keele University
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Ian Wellwood
University of Cambridge
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Amadea Turk
University of Oxford
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Joanna Lach
University of Oxford
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Sophie Park
UCL
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Stephen Barclay
University of Cambridge
