We have recently published our 2023-24 Annual Report which provides an extensive summary of our activities and successes for this year. It also details the plans for 2024-25.

• Read the annual report 

On the 6th September 2023 our paper was published online.  

This article describes the components of enabling research in care homes in Scotland and the research infrastructure the team are developing to enable more research, including clinical trials, to be carried out in Scottish care homes, and how this will benefit the residents, families and staff.

• Read the article

An archive of all our monthly newsletters.

• April 2024 Newsletter
• February 2024 Newsletter
• January 2024 Newsletter
• December 2023 Newsletter
• November 2023 Newsletter
• October 2023 Newsletter

Birt L; Lane K; Corner J; Sanderson K; Bunn D. (2023). Care-home nurses’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: managing ethical conundrums at personal cost: a qualitative study. J Nurs Sch.55:226–238. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12855

Bradshaw A, Ostler S, Goodman C, Batkovskyte I, Ellis-Smith C, Tunnard I, Bone AE, Barclay S, Vernon M, Higginson IJ, Evans CJ, Sleeman KE. Provision of palliative and end-of-life care in UKcare homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed methods observational study with implications for policy. (2023). Front Public Health. Mar 14;11:1058736. https://coi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1058736

Burgher, T., Shepherd, V. & Nollett, C. Effective approaches to public involvement in care home research: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. (2023). Res Involv Engagem 9, 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-023-00453-2

Burton, J.K., Drummond, M., Gallacher, K.I. et al. Listening and learning: a qualitative study of Scottish care home staff experiences of managing COVID-19 between March 2020-August 2022.(2023). BMC Geriatr 23, 544. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-04251-z

Chapman-Wright J, Parnell SA, Bunn D et al. (2022) Perspectives: Nurses in care homes as advisors in research: benefits for all? J Res Nurs. Vol 27(4), pp401-405. https://doi.org/10.1177/17449871221103839

Cowdell, F., Heague, M., & Dyson, J. (2023). Barriers and facilitators to skin hygiene care and emollient use in residential care homes: Instrument design and survey. International Journal of OlderPeople Nursing, 18, e12550. https://doi.org/10.1111/opn.12550

Fang, M. L., Cranwell, M., White, B., Wylie, G., Wong, K. L. Y., Harter, K., Cosgrave, L., Moulton, M., Fulton, R., Sixsmith, A., & Sixsmith, J. (2023). Aging-in-Place at the End-of-Life in Community and Residential Care Contexts. University of Dundee. https://doi.org/10.20933/100001274

Finucane AM, Hulbert-Williams NJ, Swash B, et al. (2023). Feasibility of RESTORE: An online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy intervention to improve palliative care staff wellbeing. PalliativeMedicine. Feasibility of RESTORE: An online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy intervention to improve palliative care staff wellbeing - Anne M Finucane, Nicholas J Hulbert-Williams, Brooke Swash, Juliet A Spiller, Brigid Wright, Libby Milton, David Gillanders, 2023 (sagepub.com)

Gibson, G., McCabe, L., Wilson-Nash, C., et al. (2022). Evaluation of the ‘Connecting Residents in Scotland’s Care Homes’ Programme. https://tec.scot/sites/default/files/2022-09/CRSCH%20Executive%20Summary_FINAL.pdf

Johnston, L. (2023). Care homes: Data and digital readiness. Open Access Government, Jan 2023, 106-107. https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/article/care-homes-data-and-digital-readiness/149491

Law E, Ashwroth, R., Killin, L., Connelly, P. (2021) Motivating and constraining factors for research participation in Scottish care homes. Nursing and Residential Care 2021 23:4, https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/abs/10.12968/nrec.2021.23.4.8#:~:text=Lack%20of%20time%20and%20workplace,the%20risks%20of%20research%20involvement.

Macgregor A, McCormack B, Spilsbury K, Hockley J, Rutherford A, Ogden M, Soulsby I, McKenzie M, Hanratty B, Forbat L. (2023). Supporting care home residents in the last year of life through'Needs Rounds': Development of a pre-implementation programme theory through a rapid collaborative online approach. Front Health Serv. 9;2:1019602. https://doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2022.1019602

Philip M Bath, Jonathan Ball, Matthew Boyd. Et al. (2022). Prophylactic Treatment of COVID-19 in Care Homes Trial (PROTECT-CH) MedRixv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.29.22279359

Schoultz, M., McGrogan, C., Beattie, M. et al. (2022) Psychological first aid for workers in care and nursing homes: systematic review. BMC Nurs 21, 96. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-00866-6

Susan D Shenkin, Lucy Johnston, Jo Hockley, David A G Henderson, (2022). Developing a care home data platform in Scotland: a mixed methods study of data routinely collected in care homes,Age and Ageing, Volume 51, Issue 12, , afac265, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac265