R & D Newsletters

The Research & Development Office publishes a newsletter on a quarterly basis with news, upcoming events and lists of recent publications.
Spring 2012

Contents:

  • Evaluating body psychotherapy as a treatment for the negative symptoms of schizophrenia
  • Dancing Down Memory Lane
  • Patient experience – the ingredient missing from cost-effectiveness calculations
  • Streamlining Research Ethics Review
  • Exploring the link between treatment satisfaction and symptoms
  • Mental Health Research in the NHS: The Bottom Line
  • Upcoming events
  • New Publications

Click here for R & D Newsletter - Spring 2012

Summer 2011

Contents:

  • Finding the right pace for treating CFS
  • Assessing the contribution of family data
  • Therapeutic relationship in the treatment of psychosis
  • ‘The Long Goodbye’: Cognitive analytic therapy with carers of people with dementia
  • Upcoming events
  • New Publications

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Spring 2011

Contents:

  • Economy and suicide rates?
  • What is ‘Research’?
  • New Tower Hamlets Research Forum
  • Applying for a research grant
  • Service Users in Research
  • How to apply for permission to do research
  • Upcoming events
  • New Publications

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Winter 2011

Contents:

  • Risk assessments instruments for violence: How good are they?
  • The role of coercion in treatment satisfaction of involuntary patients
  • Spring term seminars
  • Commercially sponsored research - pros and cons
  • AMS: vital health research and complex UK regulations

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Autumn 2010

Contents:

  • Population-based indices for mental health care funding
  • Subjective quality of life
  • Financial incentives to improve medication adherence
  • Partners join up in research
  • Peer support trial launched
  • Learning from prevented inpatient suicide
  • Research Strategy Committee
  • How effective patient-clinician communication can improve outcomes for patients with psychosis
  • Upcoming Events

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June 2010

Content:

  • Major changes in Psychiatric Nursing
  • Mental disorders following war
  • Is compulsory treatment in the UK worse than in other European countries?
  • Research Strategy Committee
  • Research Design Service (RDS) London
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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January 2010

Content:

  • Are general adult in-patient services in our Trust institutionally racist?
  • Co-morbidity among prisoners
  • New research programme grant
  • London Showcase Conference on Mental Health Research
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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October 2009

Content:

  • Research Presentation Day on 4th Novembe
  • Housing services – the new asylums?
  • Financial incentives for treatment adherence (the fiat study)
  •  Trainee Research Afternoon
  • Improving access to psychological therapy (IAPT) – evaluation of Newham pilot
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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June 2009

Check out the latest edition of the Research & Development Newsletter now available, in this issue:

  •  Research Strategy
  • Presentation Day
  • Support for research activities of clinicians
  • Community-based treatment for chronic hepatitis in drug users
  • The role of the psychiatric hospital – geographers studied the Centre for Mental Health in Newham
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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March 2009

Content:

  • Finances and Support for Grant Applications
  • Success in getting funding for applied research programmes
  • Outcomes of involuntary hospital admission
  • Prestigious award for psychiatric research :
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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January 2009

Content:

  • Important findings on psychosis rates in East London
  • Presigious lecture on psychiatric nursing
  • Success in getting funding for applied research programmes
  • New research governance officer
  • Trainees support research
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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September 2008

Content:

  • Research Presentation Day
  • Communication between patients and clinicians
  • Improving the measurement of patient-reported outcomes
  • Job opening in the Research Office
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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June 2008

Content::

  • Research Presentation Day
  • Morale in Acute Psychiatry is High
  • Personality disorders and life-success
  • New research methods
  • Research Office
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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March 2008

Check out the latest edition of the Reseach & Development Newsletter:

  • Final results from the City Nurses project
  • Feelings about difficult patients
  • Just another poxy shift?
  • Interested in exchanging views with other psychiatric nurses around the world?
  • Launch of DBT trial in Newham
  • Upcoming Events
  • New publications

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December 2007

Content:

  • Professiorial 'surgeries' on research
  • Better communication with patients can improve outcomes in community mental health care - a new paper
  • Inflation and bed numbers - another new paper
  • EUGATE - another new European project co-ordinated in East London
  • Music Therapy and PTSD
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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October 2007

Content:

  • Do forensic services provide better aftercare than adult general for offender patients?
  • PROMO –a new European project co-ordinated in East London
  • New funding of research in the Trust
  • East London and the City REC have temporarily moved
  • Upcoming events
  • New publications

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June 2007

Content:

  • Changes to R&D funding
  • New externally funded projects
  • Interaction with acutely ill patients
  • New research identifies ways to reduce self-harm in acute psychiatric wards
  • Locked doors on acute psychiatric wards
  • National Research Ethics Service (NRES)
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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December 2006

Content:

  • Antidepressants and sexual dysfunction
  • Trust, choice and power in mental health care
  • Best Research for Best Health
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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September 2006

Content:

  • New book launched on the London Eye
  • New public health implications relating to violence and psychiatric morbidity
  • Programme Grants for Applied Research
  • 6th Annual East London Mental Health Research Presentation Day Cancelled
  • Master class in Social Psychiatry
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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June 2006

Content:

  • Personality disorders in the news
  • Body-oriented Psychotherapy (BPT)
  • New DoH Research Commissioning Strategy
  • End of Tompkins Study
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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March 2006

Content:

  • Staff Awards for Excellence
  • Complementary medicines in psychiatry
  • Mental Health Care in European Capitals
  • Update on Forensic Psychiatry Research Unit
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications 

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December 2005

Content:

  • Good Response to Trust R&D Annual Report
  • Survey of specialised trauma services
  • Why & how do patients engage with assertive outreach
  • Men's Health & Modern Lifestyles
  • Six-Year Follow-up of First Episode Psychosis in East London
  • City-128 study of observation and outcomes on acute psychiatric wards
  • Tompkins Acute Wards Study Update
  • Research Opportunities
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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September 2005

Content:

  • New R&D Manager
  • Day Hospital Study
  • Best Research for Best Health: The New National Health Research Strategy
  • Researcher at the Trust honoured
  • 5th Annual East London Mental Health Research Presentation Day - 5th October 2005
  • Now available - Guide to Research Governance
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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June 2005

Content:

  • Money for Medication?
  • Ariel Querido Professorship 2005
  • Doctor-patient communication in the treatment of schizophrenia: Is it related to treatment outcome?
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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March 2005

Content:

  • Response to R& D Annual Report 2003/04
  • R&D organisation in the Trust
  • Changes in the application forms for ethical approval
  • Morale of staff in community mental health care
  • Vacancy in the Research Office
  • CAMHS Research Day
  • BBV Team: Research Evaluation Project
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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December 2004

Content:

  • ‘Outstanding contribution to R&D’
  • 4th Annual East London Mental Health Research Presentation Day –6th October 2004
  • Vacancy in the Research Office
  • The City Nurses Project
  • Outcomes in assertive outreach teams
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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September 2004

Content:

  • 4th Annual East London Mental Health Research Presentation Day –6th October 2004
  • 2003/04 R&D Audit Report
  • Do you want to do research?
  • KA24 Database- Are you confident that you are locating the precise references you need for your research?
  • Researcher in Trust received prize!
  • New Publications

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June 2004

Content:

  • The User Advisory Group on Research
  • The Mental Health Research Network
  • The Tompkins Acute Ward Project
  • Next Research Presentation Day
  • R&D Annual Report and the National Research Register
  • R&D committee meeting
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Publications

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March 2004

Content:

  • New Senior Lecturer in Forensic Mental Health
  • New European multi-centre study: CONNECT
  • New procedure for Ethics Application
  • Data Protection Registration
  • Audit of Research Studies ongoing between April 2003 and March 2004
  • Upcoming Events
  • Recent Publications

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December 2003

Content:

  • Past Events
  • Link to Clinical Governance
  • What Predicts Outcome in Assertive Outreach?
  • First User Researcher in East London
  • Invitation to Christmas Soiree
  • Project Registration Update
  • Upcoming Events
  • Recent Publications

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October 2003

Content:

  • Department of Health comments on Annual R&D report
  • New Research Grants
  • a) The City-128 Study
  • b) The PACE Trial: Pacing, activity and cognitive behavioural therapy: a randomised evaluation
  • c) EUNOMIA and outcomes of involuntary hospital admissions in England
  • Asperger’s - Help Wanted
  • Third East London Mental Health Research Presentation Day
  • Other Upcoming events
  • Publications

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July 2003

Content:

  • Official Opening of the Academic Unit at the Newham Centre for Mental Health
  • R&D Annual Report 2002/3
  • Research on ‘Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder’
  • The 3rd ‘East London Mental Health Research Presentation Day’
  • Other Upcoming Events
  • Publications

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March 2003

Content:

  • Evaluation of the Trust’s annual R&D report
  • Survey on personality disorder and violence
  • Audit of registered research
  • For your diary
  • A reminder to researchers
  • Publications
  • Upcoming Events 

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