HSR Blog
Health services research-related blog posts. If you would like to contribute, please fill out the form below to get in touch.
Please note blog posts reflect the personal opinion of the author and are not endorsed by the NIHR, the NHS, or the Department of Health and Social Care.
18th May 2021
Julie Shenton explores this issue, describing her doctoral research into research engagement among a critical part of the workforce – pharmacists.
17th July 2020
Yoav Ben-Shlomo discusses whether we should or should not ignore clustering, drawing on a paper by Laura Flight and colleagues.
29th April 2020
Rebecca Cassidy discusses the Chris Whitty Annual Lecture, Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) 2019, University of Kent
25th June 2019
A case example of how CRN can support high quality health services research - a blog by Catherine Pope, Clare Ryan and Nikki Cullum
10th December 2018
Are there inherent tensions between the evidence-based medicine (and policy) paradigm and the Primary Health Care/prevention agenda?
25th June 2018
Research suggests that when a health care organisation takes part in research, this may lead to better outcomes for all the patients cared for by that organisation, – and not just the patients who actually take part. In this blog, we explore whether this research finding is valid and if it is, how that might come about, and how it could be used to improve care across the NHS.
15th May 2018
Improving health; reducing costs of care; and improving patients’ experience of care – is an increasingly popular one for health systems. But, is it also appropriate for interventions/new models of care?
17th September 2017
The Health Services Research National Speciality Group responded to the NIHR 'Health Futures' report
