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Supervisors: Dr Greta Rait, Professor Irwin Nazareth, Dr Kate Walters
PRIMENT Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) is a partnership between the UCL Research Department of Primary Care
& Population Health, Division of Psychiatry and the Department of Statistical Science. PRIMENT CTU
collaborates with internal and external researchers to develop and/or evaluate complex interventions in
primary care, psychiatric and community settings. The unit has a particular focus on mental health and
behavioural change interventions, and on evaluative methodology. Possible research topics include studies
embedded within existing funded randomised trials run through the CTU and methodological questions
which aim to enhance the scientific quality of trials or elicit effects of treatment exposure using alternative
methodologies.
Project: Economics and frailty
Supervisors: Dr Kate Walters, Rachael Hunter
Frailty is associated with significant economic costs to patients, carers and health and social care
services. Current methods for evaluating these methodologies as part of economic evaluations
though fail to capture the full benefit of addressing frailty. The aim of this project would be to
develop methodologies for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of frailty related interventions
including identifying suitable outcomes and predictors of costs. There is the potential to use data
from Priment trials as well as exploring innovative methods using large data sets.
Contact: g.rait@ucl.ac.uk i.nazareth@ucl.ac.uk k.walters@ucl.ac.uk
