Niche-Leeds Research
Niche-Leeds Research
Care homes often innovate to help enhance clinical care, service delivery and their workforce but innovations are not always clinically or cost effective or based on reliable research evidence.
Implementing innovations can be difficult. Making sense of research and implementing evidence-based solutions requires leadership, expertise and collaboration between care homes and academia. Our researchers are embedded in care homes - funded by care home providers – and provide support to care staff to develop action research approaches to care
NICHE-Leeds offers this collaboration.
Here's some of our projects and those we collaborate with...
Improving Oral Healthcare
What strategies are effective for promoting oral health among residents who resist mouth care?
Encouraging Meaningful Activities
What interventions can help promote meaningful activity in residents?
COVID SEARCH
Can research provide answers to questions and uncertainties from care home managers in the COVID-19 pandemic?
CONTACT
can wearable digital devices improve COVID-19 contact tracing and infection control in care homes?
STARQ
How is staffing related to quality in care homes?
DACHA
What needs to be in a minimum dataset for care homes to inform service development and commissioning?
General Practice for care homes
What are the cost-effective ways of organising general practice for care homes?
CONDOR-CH
How feasible is rapid testing for COVID-19 in care homes?
End of Life in Care Homes
How best to adapt palliative care outreach for care homes?
Recruiting and Retaining Staff
What are the costs and effects of strategies for recruiting and retaining staff in care homes?
Modelling staffing and quality
Can we predict relationships between quality, outcomes and costs in care homes?
Understanding workplace relationships
how can we explain and understand workplace relationships in care homes?
LESS COVID-19
How to effectively capture and share experiences of COVID-19 to better prepare homes?
Enhancing quality in Care HOmes: The ECHO study
We're working on understanding more about the different ways care homes work on enhancing quality.