Completed Projects

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FUNDER

COLLABORATORS

     
Developing the social economy as a provider of health and care services in remote and rural areas: an investigation of barriers and promoters in remote and rural areas HIE  
O4O: Older People for Older People NPP  
Improving the delivery of emergency healthcare in Scotland: evaluation of the role of the community first responder  more...  CSO  
Outcomes for men screened for abdominal aortic aneurysm  more...  CSO  
Integrating emergency health and social care services: evaluation of the Highland Hub redesign   more..  The Highland Council  
Nuffield Studentship 2011 - Electronic health sensor performance Nuffield Foundation click here for project poster
           Competitive health services in sparsely populated areas - eHealth applications in urban-rural dimension more...

  

 
 Identifying and understanding the role of boundaries in facilitating or preventing e-health implementation in health and social care Chief Scientist Office University of Glasgow
Developing a novel communication system to deliver group-based pulmonary rehabilitation in the home via the internet: widening access for patients Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland Glasgow School of Art, Centre for Design and Innovation (formerly Distance Lab)

Telephone Consulting in General Practice

contact: d.heaney@abdn.ac.uk

CSO University of Glasgow
Untethered monitoring in remote and rural rescue

 

 HIE INEH / University of Aberdeen Sixth Century Studentship

CIMIT.  Boston Harvard Medical School

 Evaluation of Kinloch Rannoch Community First Responder Scheme

 NHS Tayside

for further information d.heaney@abdn.ac.uk

final report now available  here

Society's relationship with the natural world and the role of the outdoors in health and wellbeing Economic & Social Research Council  
Remote Service Futures Argyll & Islands Enterprise

NHS R & D Endowments

NHS Highland

KTP

Evaluation of the Pilot Emergency Medical Retrieval Service Scottish Government DTZ.  Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen
Care of patients with respiratory disease in remote and rural areas: potential role of new technologies WS Sutherland
Hospitalisation and Women's Psychological Wellbeing:
Remote and Rural IV
CSO Scottish Executive Department of Health University of Aberdeen
Review of nursing in the community baseline study Scottish Government Social Research

Napier University,
Queen Margaret University,
NHS Lothian,
University of Aberdeen,
University of Dundee

Community facilities in rural Scotland: a study of their use, provision and condition Scottish Government Social Research

Scottish Agricultural College (SAC),
Countryside and Community Research Institute (CCRI)

Exploration of types of rural community pharmacy arrangements
Final report for this study can be found here

NHS Highland Jane Farmer

The new GMS contract in primary care: The impact of governance and incentives on care

contact:  d.heaney@abdn.ac.uk

NHS SDO University of Glasgow, University of Manchester, University of Dundee, Health Economics Research Unit UoA

Suicide after discharge from psychiatric care in Scotland   

contact: cameron.stark@nhs.net

Scottish Executive Choose Life Initiative

Scottish Executive Health Department

Information and Statistics Division

Evaluation of a pilot of a HealthPresence Solution

Scottish Centre for Telehealth

University of Glasgow, University of Dundee, Scottish School of Primary Care, Scottish Centre for Telehealth

The contribution of health services to the social and economic sustainability of rural communities Highlands & Islands Enterprise Department of Public Health, UoA, The Spencer Gulf Rural Health School, University of South Australia

The impact of changing workforce patterns in emergency and out of hours care on patient experience, staff practice and health system performance

Service Delivery and Organisation Workforce (SDO) University of Southampton, University of Glasgow
SRDG feasibility study - EHealth: Addressing, Evaluation, Implementation and Integration (HAVEN) Scottish Funding Council (Strategic Research Development Grant) University of Glasgow, University of Dundee, Scottish School of Primary Care, Scottish Centre for Telehealth

Evaluation of Physician Assistants in Scotland

NHS Education for Scotland

Jane Farmer

The BIG trial: a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of breastfeeding peer support groups in improving breastfeeding initiation, duration and satisfaction

Chief Scientist Office, SEHD

Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen.  Department of Public Health, University of Aberdeen.  PEACH Unit, Glasgow University

Older People for Older People (0-4-0) -preparatory project

European Union NPP Programme

Highlands & Islands Enterprise. Sweden. Norway.

The Rural Proofing of Elderly Care Competencies

contact: d.heaney@abdn.ac.uk

NHS Education for Scotland


Video Support for Infant Feeding

NHS Highland Endowments

NHS Highland

Our Life as Elderly:
Health Care
Relatives and Kinship

European Northern Peripheries

UHI, HCCF Sweden, Norway, Faroes

NHS 24 Dispersed Model Evaluation

contact: d.heaney@abdn.ac.uk

NHS 24

University of Glasgow

Extreme Weather Conditions

contact: d.godden@abdn.ac.uk

European Northern Peripheries Programme

Sweden, Finland, Norway

National evaluation of NHS 24

contact: d.heaney@abdn.ac.uk

Scottish Executive Health Department

University of Glasgow

Scoping Emergency Admission in Highland

contact: d.heaney@abdn.ac.uk

NHS Highland


Emergency and Urgent Care Education Study

NHS Orkney


Policy review and study by Professor D Hartley on roles of primary care, community hospitals and community health partnerships in Highland and Grampian

NHS Highland


Evaluation of the impact of NES educational funding initiatives upon practitioner development and service provision

contact: d.heaney@abdn.ac.uk

NHS Education for Scotland


Expectations and demand for health care among elderly rural in-migrants to rural/remote areas of Scotland and longstanding residents: a qualative interview study

Chief Scientist Office, SEHD


An evaluation of the North of Scotland Tele-Education Programme (NOSTEP)

NHS Education for Scotland


Access to primary care services out of hours

contact: d.heaney@abdn.ac.uk

French Health Ministry


An economic evaluation of instalment dispensing for new medicines to be taken for more than 3 weeks in the primary care setting

contact: d.heaney@abdn.ac.uk

Chief Scientist Office

Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Aberdeen

Orthodontic Telemedicine Project

Scottish Telemedicine Action Forum

NHS Highland

Public and patient engagement in the NHS Highland cancer strategy development

Scottish Executive

NHS Highland

Profiling remote and rural LHCC's - core service provision, training needs and rurality weighting

RARARI

NHS Education for Scotland

Out of Hours care in remote and rural Scotland: identifying sustainable strategies for change

contact: d.heaney@abdn.ac.uk

RARARI

Primary care organisations

Research literature review on Community Hospitals

SEHD

Department of Public Health. University of Glasgow

Remote Telematic Solutions for patient diagnoses and training of health care professionals in sparsely populated areas

European Northern Peripheries Programme

Dept General Practice and Primary Care, Aberdeen .  Swedish and Finnish partners

Evaluation of the new arrangements for the delivery of out of hours primary care services in Highland

contact: d.heaney@abdn.ac.uk

NHS Highland

University of Glasgow

University of Southampton

Creation of a Clinical Peripherality Map

Scottish Executive - National Planning Team


Evaluation of shared hospital at night rota - Oban and Fort William

contact: d.godden@abdn.ac.uk

NHS Highland

NHS Argyll and Clyde

HERU

Low birthweight, pre-term delivery and suicide in later life

NHS Highland


Sustainable Maternity Services Provision

RARARI

Dugald Baird Centre, Business Studies, Aberdeen

Evaluation of Highland Aortic Aneurysm screening programme

RARARI

Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen

Study of an outreach service for the management of sleep apnoea/Hypopnea Syndrome (SAHS)

William Sutherland Trust

HERU, Chest Clinic, Aberdeen

An epidemiological survey of injuries to farm workers arising from tagging of newborn calves and clipping of cattle to meet BSE and hygiene regulations

RARARI

NFU

Factors associated with outcome of stroke in Highland, with special reference to the effects of remoteness and rurality

RARARI

HHB

The epidemiology and associated quality of life of self-reported Chronic Respiratory Disease in patients living in rural and urban Scotland

Chief Scientist Office

Primary Care, University of Aberdeen

Proposal for evaluation of medical service in Orkney - a new model for consultant supported intermediate care in remote areas

RARARI

HERU

The equitable provision of services in Highland

HHB


The role of Telemedicine in the new configuration of primary care services in remote and rural Scotland

RARARI


Orkney mental health home treatment programme - pilot phase evaluation

Orkney Health Board


Exhaled ethane as a marker of disease severity in asthma - Pilot study

William Sutherland Trust

HPRF

Epidemiological Studies of Complementary medicine use in primary care attendees

Grampian PCT - fellowship to Dr Featherstone


Evaluation of the Children's Home Care Nursing Service for Highland

NHS Highland Board


Pilot study to map informal breastfeeding support group activity in Scotland by LHCC

Grampian PCT


Expectations and demand for health care among elderly rural in-migrants to rural/remote areas of Scotland and longstanding residents: a qualitative interview study

Chief Scientist Office


Obtaining a profile of primary health care professionals currently working in Highland

Highland Primary Care NHS Trust