Employee Staff Record (ESR) study
Exploring the association between sickness absence and COVID-19 in NHS staff
Funder: Colt Foundation
A retrospective study exploring NHS staff sickness absence due to suspected COVID-19 infection among the NHS workforce with a particular focus on job role, ethnicity, and mental health.
1) Risks of Covid-19 by occupation in NHS workers in England (OEM) 2022
2) Ethnic differences in risk of severe Covid-19: to what extent are they driven by exposure? (JoPH) 2021
3) Changing patterns of sickness absence among healthcare workers in England during the Covid-19 pandemic (JoPH) 2022
4) Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on sickness absence for mental ill-health in National Health Service staff (BMJ Open) 2021
NHS CHECK
NHS CHECK is an Urgent Public Health study, investigating the mental health and wellbeing of healthcare workers in England through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Funder: Medical Research Council; UCL/Wellcome; Rosetrees Trust; NHS England and Improvement; Economic and Social Research Council; Koa Health; NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, King's College London; NIHR Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness and Response at King's College London.
A longitudinal cohort study of >23,000 clinical and non-clinical staff from 18 acute and mental health NHS Trusts across England. Sub-studies include: 1) qualitative interviews about support services used/needed by staff; 2) an RCT of a smartphone wellbeing app; 3) gold standard diagnostic interviews to validate mental health screening measures.
1) Capturing the experiences of UK healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A structural topic modelling analysis of 7,412 free-text survey responses. (PLoS One, 2022)
2) NHS CHECK: protocol for a cohort study investigating the psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers (BMJ Open, 2021)
3) Multicentre, England-wide randomised controlled trial of the ‘Foundations’ smartphone application in improving mental health and well-being in a healthcare worker population (BJPsych, 2022)
4) Mixed signals about the mental health of the NHS workforce (The Lancet, Psychiatry, 2020)
5) Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and common mental disorders in health-care workers in England during the COVID-19 pandemic: a two-phase cross-sectional study
6) ‘You get looked at like you’re failing’: A reflexive thematic analysis of experiences of mental health and wellbeing support for NHS staff
7) Moral injury and psychological wellbeing in UK healthcare staff
OPTIMUM study: Occupational and Psychiatric Morbidity Consortium
This editorial is based on a work from the OPTIMUM consortium.
Funder: King’s (KCL) Together
Mental health and work: what’s next? (Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 2019)
Delphi study: Carpal Tunnel Release
Funder: British Association of Hand Therapists 2020 Research Grant.
A Delphi study to establish (i) what advice should be provided regarding return to driving after CTR; (ii) how work activities should be categorised and defined in relation to CTR, and when patients should be recommended to return to these activities; (iii) what wound care and rehabilitation advice should be provided after CTR.
Driving, work, wound care and rehabilitation after carpal tunnel release: Consensus recommendations from a UK Delphi study (Hand Therapy, 2022)
ENABLE Study
Funder: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity
The inter-relationships between long term conditions and employment
Long-term health conditions in UK working age adults: a cross-sectional analysis of associations with demographic, socioeconomic, psychosocial and health related factors in an inner city population
Risk factors for the progression to multimorbidity among UK urban working age adults. A community cohort study