Prof Iain Atherton's Projects (11)

Migration and the nursing and midwifery professions: a data linkage study Oct 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2026
This project will look to provide insights into migration of nurses and midwives across England and Wales using linked registrant and census data.

Evaluation of the N50k programme Dec 14, 2022 - Sep 30, 2024
This study will evaluate the success of the UK government's policy to increase numbers of registered nurses in England by 50 thousand. The Napier element will build on work we are currently doing to enable a more effective use of registrant data held... Read More about Evaluation of the N50k programme.

Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research 2022 Apr 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2026
During the pilot phase of ADR UK the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR) has, together with
partners in the Scottish Government, delivered a series of policy-relevant projects based on the linking of novel sets of
administrativ... Read More about Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research 2022.

Care Home Innovation Partnership - Ensuring a Whole Systems Analysis Sep 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2023
• Conduct an ‘Audit’ of data items currently collected through electronic care planning in the 6 partner care homes to establish what data are routinely collected as part of resident care
• Create a usable data inventory from which data platform can... Read More about Care Home Innovation Partnership - Ensuring a Whole Systems Analysis.

Who benefits from cardiovascular risk reduction programmes? Building a Scottish observatory to measure the impact of blood pressure (BP) telemonitoring and future cardiovascular risk reduction interventions Sep 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2024
The British Heart Foundation is partnering the Scottish Government in supporting the roll out of an evidence based BP telemonitoring initiative (scale up BP) in order to facilitate increased detection and improved management of hypertension and subse... Read More about Who benefits from cardiovascular risk reduction programmes? Building a Scottish observatory to measure the impact of blood pressure (BP) telemonitoring and future cardiovascular risk reduction interventions.

Administrative Data Research Centres 2018 Nov 1, 2018 - Mar 31, 2022
Administrative data (that is, information collected primarily for administrative purposes) has long contributed to central government and other statistics. However in the last 15-20 years, technological advancement has seen something of a revolution... Read More about Administrative Data Research Centres 2018.

Cardiovascular disparities among young adults in Scotland: Linking the Scottish Longitudinal Study from 1991 to 2011 Jul 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2019
In this study, we aim to examine:
1. Trends in the prevalence of hospital admissions for CHD in young adults and compare them with older adults between 1991 to 2011;
2. Trend in the annual rates of major CHD events (non-fatal MI and CHD death) in... Read More about Cardiovascular disparities among young adults in Scotland: Linking the Scottish Longitudinal Study from 1991 to 2011.

Individual and contextual deprivation: Association with cancer outcomes and implications for cancer policy Apr 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2021
This project will use data from the Longitudinal Study for England and Wales to investigate inequalities in survival after a cancer diagnosis. It will compare and contrast estimates for survival obtained when using areal measures of deprivation to th... Read More about Individual and contextual deprivation: Association with cancer outcomes and implications for cancer policy.

Career trajectories of Nurses in Scotland 2001-2011 Sep 1, 2015 - Mar 31, 2016
Background
Evidence-informed recruitment and retention strategies are required to ensure the nursing workforce has sufficient capacity and capability to deliver care to Scotland?s population. Current demographic and disease trends mean that people i... Read More about Career trajectories of Nurses in Scotland 2001-2011.

Nursing education: what can perspectives from the social sciences contribute Jan 1, 2015 - Apr 30, 2016
Nursing students care for people from very different backgrounds to their own both in placements during undergraduate training and throughout their careers. Caring for patients requires empathy: seeing the world from others? perspectives. The social... Read More about Nursing education: what can perspectives from the social sciences contribute.

Administration Data Research Centre Scotland Jan 1, 2015 - Oct 31, 2018
The Administrative Data Research Centre (ADRC) - Scotland aims to make research and make available de-identified administrative data to the research community.
The ADRC will have a core service that will:
•provide state-of-the-art facilities for re... Read More about Administration Data Research Centre Scotland.