Supporting People with Long Term Conditions Research Group

This research group undertakes health and social care research that directly informs policy and practice to support people with long term conditions.

The group focuses particularly on research questions concerned with:

Service user and carer experiences

• The experiences of people with multiple long term conditions and their carers in using health and social care services.

Measures of service quality

• The development of appropriate and service user centred measures of quality and outcomes in service delivery.

Improving service delivery

• Improving health and social care service delivery to people with long term conditions, which increase social isolation and exclusion, and their carers.

Developing integrated services

• Improving the understanding of the processes and outcomes of developing effective integrated health and social care services, including interprofessional working, again with particular emphasis on service user and carer perspectives.

Workforce development

• The development and deployment of the health and social care workforce (professionally and non-professionally qualified) to appropriately and effectively address the needs of people with long term conditions in later life and their carers.

Research methodologies

• Developing appropriate methodologies to examine these questions over time, in multi-disciplinary research teams that include service users.

Contacts

• Joint Lead: Professor Vari Drennan
• Joint Lead: Professor Ray Jones