CSO Applied Research Programme Grants 2007-08

• Living well with multiple morbidity: the development and evaluation of a primary care-based complex intervention to support patients with multiple morbidities (£ 828 k over 4 years)

  Investigators: Prof Stewart Mercer, Prof Graham Watt, Prof Sally Wyke, Dr Elisabeth Fenwick, Prof Bruce Guthrie, Mr Terry Findlay, Dr Alex McConnachie

  Led by: Professor Stewart Mercer,
  

  University of Glasgow
  Tel: 0141 330 8345,
  email: Prof Stewart Mercer

• Data-driven quality improvement in primary care: integrating better quality measures and better information technology with aligned incentives and support for change (£ 975 k over 5 years)

  Investigators: Prof Bruce Guthrie, Dr Andrew Russell, Dr Stella Clark, Mrs Lorna Scahill, Dr Peter Donnan, Mr Tom Love, Mr Colin McCowan, Mr Scott Cunningham, Prof Andrew Morris, Prof Tony Wells, Prof Peter Davey, Prof Jeremy Wyatt

  Led by: Professor Bruce Guthrie,
  

  University of Dundee
  Tel: 01382 420022,
  email: Prof Bruce Guthrie

• Telemetric supported self-monitoring of long-term conditions (£ 987 k over 5 years)

  Investigators: Dr Brian McKinstry, Prof William MacNee, Prof Aziz Sheikh, Dr Paul Padfield, Dr Janet Hanley, Dr Claudia Pagliari, Dr Hilary Pinnock, Dr John McKnight, Dr Sarah Wild, Ms Sandra Auld, Mr David Kelly, Dr Cathie Sudlow

  Led by: Dr Brian McKinstry,
  

  University of Edinburgh.
  Tel: 0131 650 2680,
  email: Prof Brian Mckinstry

• Pharmacovigilance for children: Signal generation from linked NHS administrative data. (£ 988k over 4 years)

  Investigators: Prof Peter Helms, Mrs Mary Sweetland, Dr Marion Bennie, Dr James McLay, Prof Christine Bond, Dr Corri Black, Dr John Haughney, Dr James Chalmers, Dr Colin Simpson, Prof Amanda Lee.

  Led by: Prof Peter Helms,
  University of Aberdeen.
  Tel: 01224 552471,
  email: Prof Peter Helms