Publications by authors named "Stephen Timmons"

This paper investigates the impact of boundary spanning activities on building trust as a means of tackling health inequalities in hardly reached communities. Lack of trust has been identified as a barrier to engagement with healthcare services, resulting in poorer health outcomes. Engaging with hardly reached communities is challenging due to the social and symbolic boundaries prevalent in community healthcare settings.

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Objective: To identify the conditions that interfere with the implementation of the Advanced Access model in primary health care.

Method: This is an implementation research that used the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR). The CFIR provides a classification of factors that affect the implementation of a technology and comprises five domains: characteristics of the intervention, external environment, internal environment, individuals, and process.

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When people talk about their healthcare experience, compassion is often a common ingredient in the stories they share. After a decade of healthcare reforms and research on compassion, the experience of receiving compassionate care has been shown to be important to patients and their families. Yet, there is little guidance to inform compassionate practice in the context of providing mental health care.

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Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased use of digital clinical consultations (phone or video calls) within UK maternity services. This project aimed to review the evidence on digital clinical consultations in maternity systems to illuminate how, for whom and in what contexts, they can be used to support safe, personalised and equitable care.

Design: A realist synthesis, drawing on diverse sources of evidence (2010-present) from OECD countries, alongside insights from knowledge user groups (representing healthcare providers and service users).

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  • The study aims to find validated tools for measuring the implementation outcomes of evidence-based practices (EBP) in Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs), addressing a gap in current practices.
  • A systematic review of systematic reviews was conducted, with extensive database searches and evaluations of the methodological quality of selected reviews, ultimately focusing on extraction and analysis of measurement instruments.
  • From the 93 instruments screened, only nine were deemed suitable, with two potentially adaptable for use in the PICU, highlighting overall concerns about the validity and reliability of existing measurement tools.
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Objectives: Major trauma centres (MTCs) save lives but rehabilitation to support return-to-work (RTW) is lacking. This paper describes development of a vocational rehabilitation intervention (the ROWTATE intervention) to support RTW following traumatic injury.

Design: Sequential and iterative person-based approach in four stages- review of evidence about the efficacy and mechanisms of RTW interventions; interviews (n=38) and focus groups (n=25) with trauma survivors and service providers in five UK MTCs to identify the issues, and challenges faced postinjury; : codesign workshops (n=43) with trauma stakeholders in MTCs to conceptually test and identify intervention delivery barriers/enablers; meetings (n=7) with intervention development working group (IDWG) to: (1) generate guiding principles, (2) identify key intervention features (process, components, mechanisms) to address unmet rehabilitation needs; (3) generate a logic model and programme theory to illustrate how the intervention works; and (4) develop a training package to support delivery.

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  • - The COVID pandemic led to a rise in digital clinical consultations in midwifery and nursing, prompting a review to determine their safe and acceptable use in maternity care settings
  • - The study's aims included developing an initial theory by engaging various stakeholders such as midwives and service users, focusing on questions around these digital consultations
  • - Results showed limited existing evidence on digital consultations; however, stakeholder input helped create 13 initial theories and a framework, highlighting the need for more research in this area.
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Objective: Major trauma 'Rehabilitation Prescriptions' aim to facilitate continuity of care and describe patient needs following discharge from UK Major Trauma Centre (MTCs), however research suggests rehabilitation prescriptions are not being implemented as intended. We aimed to identify factors influencing completion and use of rehabilitation prescriptions using the Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) and Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF).

Design: Online survey informed by the TDF and BCW.

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Background: Moderately severe or major trauma (injury severity score (ISS) > 8) is common, often resulting in physical and psychological problems and leading to difficulties in returning to work. Vocational rehabilitation (VR) can improve return to work/education in some injuries (e.g.

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Background: Despite several interventions demonstrating benefit to people living with dementia and their caregivers, few have been translated and implemented in routine clinical practice. There is limited evidence of the barriers and facilitators for commissioning and implementing health and social care interventions for people living with dementia. The aim of the current study was to explore the barriers and facilitators to commissioning and implementing health and social care interventions for people with dementia, using a dementia friendly exercise and physical activity-based intervention (PrAISED [Promoting Activity, Stability and Independence in Early Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment]) as a case study.

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Older people living with dementia are advised to exercise to remain independent. Although several exercise classes for older people take place across the UK, there is limited information about the geographical distribution of these classes. This study identified the location and explored the population characteristics of the classes in a UK region, to aid improved access to exercise.

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Background: An extended role being explored globally is the advanced clinical practitioner (ACP). In England this is an extended role for allied health professions, nurses and midwives in a range of settings.

Objectives: This paper focuses on three research questions: 1) What is the role of ACPs in England? 2) What are the barriers and facilitators to implementing the role? and 3) What is the contribution of ACPs to health services in England?

Design/setting: A qualitative, exploratory study to explore perspectives on the ACP role in a range of clinical settings.

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  • The text describes a study focused on implementing a surveillance system to monitor healthcare-associated endophthalmitis in São Paulo, Brazil, after eye surgeries.
  • The system involved a structured approach, beginning with a pilot phase and scaling up, gathering data monthly from participating healthcare facilities between September 2017 and December 2019.
  • Preliminary results showed that among the 1,483 eligible facilities, 175 participated, reporting a low overall endophthalmitis incidence rate of 0.05%, with most cases linked to cataract surgery and primarily caused by gram-positive bacteria.
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Aim: The aim of this study is to explore the influence of a talent management scheme in an English National Health Service (NHS) Trust on registered nurses' retention intentions.

Background: The retention of nurses is a global challenge, and talent management initiatives can play a role in improving retention. Talent management in its broadest sense is a way in which an organization recruits and retains the workforce that it needs to optimize the services it delivers.

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Background: Patient engagement with transmission-based precautions can be an important strategy to prevent adverse events related to isolation. Most patient education is still highly prescriptive and is thus unlikely to help. Effective communication requires behavior change, leading to a meaningful dialog between the parties involved.

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Background: Evidence supports the positive influence of compassion on care experiences and health outcomes. However, there is limited understanding regarding how compassion is identified by people with lived experience of mental health care.

Aim: To explore the views and experiences of compassion from people who have lived experience of mental health.

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Introduction: One of the most commonly reported COVID-19-related changes to all maternity services has been an increase in the use of digital clinical consultations such as telephone or video calling; however, the ways in which they can be optimally used along maternity care pathways remain unclear. It is imperative that digital service innovations do not further exacerbate (and, ideally, should tackle) existing inequalities in service access and clinical outcomes. Using a realist approach, this project aims to synthesise the evidence around implementation of digital clinical consultations, seeking to illuminate how they can work to support safe, personalised and appropriate maternity care and to clarify when they might be most appropriately used, for whom, when, and in what contexts?

Methods And Analysis: The review will be conducted in four iterative phases, with embedded stakeholder involvement: (1) refining the review focus and generating initial programme theories, (2) exploring and developing the programme theories in light of evidence, (3) testing/refining the programme theories and (4) constructing actionable recommendations.

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Trial literature on falls management in care homes may provide limited detail on current practice and instead this information may be found in grey literature. This scoping review aimed to identify the key characteristics of current falls management programmes for UK care homes identified from the grey literature. A scoping review was conducted and evidence sources were included if they were targeted at UK care homes for older people and included any component of falls management (assessment, intervention, training).

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  • - Cardiac arrest (CA) significantly contributes to global mortality, with many deaths in intensive care units resulting from neurological injuries after out-of-hospital incidents, often leading to the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment based on prognosis.
  • - Post-cardiac arrest (P-CA) guidelines emphasize the need to avoid overly negative prognostic predictions, acknowledging that while prognosticators aim to minimize risks, achieving 100% accuracy in predictions is still impossible, creating uncertainty in patient outcomes.
  • - The use of prognosticators is seen as a professional strategy to navigate risks associated with P-CA prognostication, balancing the medical obligation to provide accurate forecasts with the complexities of uncertainty, reflecting a technical approach to addressing inherent professional
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Background: Despite global action and policy initiatives, internally displaced persons (IDPs) experience poor living conditions and lack healthcare access compared to refugees. This study sought to understand the relationship between health management processes and health outcomes among camp-dwelling IDPs in northern Nigeria.

Method: 73 individuals participated in either a focus group ( = 49) or one-to-one interview ( = 24), comprising IDPs ( = 49), camp managers ( = 9), health workers ( = 7) and government administrative authorities ( = 8).

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Aims: This is the second of two papers conceptualizing emotional labour in the emergency department (ED). This paper aims to understand the environmental 'moderators' of ED nurses' emotional labour.

Design: Ethnography, through an interpretivist philosophy, enabled immersion in the ED setting, gathering the lived experiences and narratives of the ED nurses.

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Background: A Nottingham Legacy Nurse Programme was developed in response to the reducing supply of new nursing registrants and an ageing workforce. The programme comprised components of focussed mentorship, knowledge transition, support and development of new learners in practice.

Aims: The work-based development programme aimed to improve the retention and experience of late career registered nurses.

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Compassion is an important element of contemporary nursing work. Compassion has been recognized as necessary for improving health outcomes. However, very little is known about how compassion is understood in the mental health practice setting.

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Ethnic minority communities in the UK have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, with increased risks of infection, severe disease, and death. Hesitancy around the COVID-19 vaccine may be contributing to disparities in vaccine delivery to ethnic minority communities. This systematic review aims to strengthen understanding of COVID-19 vaccine concerns among ethnic minorities in the UK.

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