Centre for Health and Community Research

The Centre’s members include representatives from the health subject area, the Social Inclusion Research Unit, and the North Wales NHS Trust (Eastern Division).

Most funded research within the Centre has focused on service development and evaluation and inequalities. Other research includes narrative methodology and health care ethics, palliative care learning methods, patient experiences, decision making, evaluation methodologies, survey design and user participation. The Centre also provides a consultancy service and works collaboratively with local partners to attract research funding from funding bodies.

Methodological expertise of members of the Centre combine qualitative and quantitative approaches and their work can be described through key substantive areas and cross-cutting themes. The two key substantive research areas are: health risk behaviours and service development. Research within the Centre also falls into three cross-cutting themes – service improvement, user-involvement and inequalities.

Some of the recent projects include an exploration of breast care nursing in North Wales; a survey of health needs of care home residents in Denbighshire; evaluation of an instrument to measure district nurse competencies; a review of care homes in North Wales; development of an epilepsy instrument for people with learning disabilities; evaluation of the Heart of Flintshire Project, evaluation of healthy living initiatives;  an All-Wales review of primary care nursing; evaluation of the All Wales Food and Fitness Grant Scheme and evaluation of the All Wales Dietetics Grant Scheme

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