Community and Health Research Unit
High quality research for quality improvement in health and social care
The latest edition of the CaHRU Newsletter (Winter 2015-16) was published in March 2016. The newsletter presents the work of the research centre over the previous three months and includes articles from the CaHRU blog covering publications, conferences and funding. The Continue reading CaHRU Winter 2015-16 Newsletter
An international team of researchers led by Prof Niro Siriwardena with statistician Dr Zahid Asghar from CaHRU has been awarded funding from the Falck Foundation to study prehospital pain management. The study involves collaboration between CaHRU at the University of Continue reading CaHRU wins new grant to investigate prehospital pain management
Professor Niro Siriwardena from CaHRU and Dr Adele Langlois from the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln have been awarded a seed award in humanities and social science from the Wellcome Trust to develop a Continue reading CaHRU and School of Social and Political Science win Wellcome Trust funding for Network exploring Ethics of Ambulance Trials
A new book, Ambulance Services: Leadership and Management Perspectives by Professors Paresh Wankhade and Kevin Mackway-Jones, features a chapter on equality and diversity in prehospital care, co-authored by Viet-Hai Phung and Prof Niro Siriwardena of CaHRU together with Dr Karen Continue reading New book chapter from CaHRU on equality and diversity in prehospital ambulance care
A new study ‘What evidence is there on the effectiveness of different models of delivering urgent care? A rapid review‘ was published this month, and included CaHRU’s Viet-Hai Phung as one of the report co-authors. Over the last 15 years, Continue reading New evidence synthesis on effectiveness of different models of delivering urgent care published