New IHI research presented at conferences

Work by Pippa Bark and Henry Potts at UCL, working with Maria Barnard, a consultant diabetologist at the Whittington Hospital and a graduate of UCL's MSc in Health Informatics, was presented at the 2018 Diabetes UK Professional Conference. The team showed that patients on the Whittington's Diabetes Self-Management Programme showed improvements in patient activation and glycaemic control, but they faced multiple challenges in sustaining behaviour change in the long term.

Meanwhile, research on the use of electronic records in ambulances by Henry Potts with Swansea's Alison Porter and a large multi-institution team was presented in Copenhagen at the second European Emergency Medical Services Congress. The work showed that the adoption of electronic records is going more slowly than expected. 

Porter A, Potts H, Mason S, Morgan H, Morrison Z, Rees N, Shaw D, Siriwardena N, Snooks H, Williams V (2018). The digital ambulance: Electronic patient clinical records in prehospital emergency care. BMJ Open 8(Suppl 1): A26-7. doi: 10.1136/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-EMS.70

Bark P, Barnard ML, Davidson C, Potts H (2018). The long-term impact of a Diabetes Self-Management Programme: Semi-structured interviews of patients' experience. Diabetic Medicine 35(S1): 134.

Barnard ML, Davidson C, Bark P, Potts HWW (2018). Improving glycaemic control and patient activation with a Diabetes Self-Management Programme. Diabetic Medicine 35(S1): 132.