Issue 9 (PDF 1.26 mb) - Bournemouth University

Successful grant of £456,000 from
the Health Foundation
Dr Eloise Carr, Dr Charles Campion-Smith,
Professors Alan Breen (Anglo-European College of
Chiropractic) and Peter Wilcock (Director, South Wiltshire
Health and Social Care Academy) have been successful in
receiving a grant of £456,000 from the Health Foundation’s
funding stream ‘Engaging Clinicians in Quality
Improvement’ to work with primary care practices around
the management of acute low back pain.
They were supported in developing the
bid by crucial input from Rob Payne
(Bournemouth & Poole Primary Care Trust),
Trudy Affleck (South Wiltshire Primary
Care Trust) and Nia Taylor (Chief Executive
BackCare).
This work builds on a series of small
projects over the past five years
involving healthcare professionals in the
management of back pain. Their work has
identified that despite, good guidelines
for practice, the management of pain
continues to be problematic as many
professionals lack the knowledge and
confidence to manage back pain.
This project will work collaboratively
with 10 Primary Care Practices from
Bournemouth, Poole and South Wiltshire.
Each practice will form a team of clinical
Awards
Professor Jonathan Parker has been
elected again as Vice-Chair of the Joint
University Council Social Work Education
Committee (social work’s equivalent to
the Council of Deans) from January this
year until next year.
Professor Iain Graham has been made
a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine
and a Fellow of the European Academy of
Nursing Science. He has also been cited
as a Global Nurse Leader by Sigma Theta
Tau International.
and administrative staff (e.g. GP, nurse,
physiotherapist and receptionist) and
patients. These practice teams will
attend a series of eight workshops around
the management of back pain and
‘healthcare improvement’ knowledge and
skills, and will be supported between
workshops to identify aspects of care
that need to be redesigned to better meet
their patients’ needs.
An ambitious evaluation will measure
patient outcomes for each of the practices
before and after the workshops, focusing
on improved patient outcomes, improved
practices to achieve these outcomes and
changes in professional knowledge about
treating back pain and how to design
better healthcare processes.
New development in education
IHCS is working in
collaboration with the
South West Ambulance
Trust to develop
a new educational
programme for
paramedics in
the region.
We are planning a foundation degree
in Paramedic Science with a full
honours route in the field of Emergency
and Urgent Care. This is an exciting
collaboration and will support the
expansion of the roles, knowledge and
skills of paramedics in our region.
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