The work reported here is a systematic review of evidence that aims to answer two questions: why do patients having a heart attack delay seeking professional medical help and what interventions if any can reduce this delay. Please click here to view full report.
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Mapping and Evaluation of Consanguinity Data Held on Patients across Sheffield Children’s Hospital Services
Consanguineous marriage – the practice of marrying close relatives, commonly cousins – is a common practice in many cultures offering significant social and economic benefits. However, this practice increases the risk of recessive genetic disorders because closely related individuals are more likely to carry the same abnormal genes than unrelated people. Please click here to view full report.
Case study of the CABS project Champions for Achieving Better Health in Sheffield
Champions for Achieving Better Health in Sheffield (CABS) addresses the health needs of South Asian taxi drivers in Sheffield. It focus on 3 key areas: •Men •BME group •An occupational group Please click here to view the full report.
Better Services by Design website
This website is designed to help you to use design thinking and methods to improve health and social care services. The website introduces our approach to health and social care service design and has a database of methods that you might use in your projects. It has been refined through research funded by the United Kingdom National […]
Enhancing the Quality of Oral Nutrition Support (EQONS)
Evidence suggests that under-nutrition delays recovery, lowers resistance to medical complications and is linked to lengthened hospital stay, morbidity and mortality. We undertook a project in partnership with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to trial two interventions; ward-based nutrition champions, and a dietetic team working within the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate the introduction of an evidence-based malnutrition screening tool and care guidelines. Please click […]
