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"Calling executives and clinicians to account": User involvement in commissioning cancer services (2015)
Journal Article
Evans, D., Bacon, R., Greer, E., Stagg, A., & Turton, P. (2015). "Calling executives and clinicians to account": User involvement in commissioning cancer services. Health Expectations, 18(4), 504-515. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12051

Background: English NHS guidance emphasises the importance of involving users in commissioning cancer services. There has been considerable previous research on involving users in service improvement but not on involvement in commissioning cancer ser... Read More about "Calling executives and clinicians to account": User involvement in commissioning cancer services.

Learning together, working together: An evaluation of experiences of a pilot programme for partnership between unions and management in the health service (2012)
Journal Article
Young, P., Moule, P., Evans, D., Simmons, S., Crack, M., & Mayo, G. (2012). Learning together, working together: An evaluation of experiences of a pilot programme for partnership between unions and management in the health service. Nurse Education Today, 32(5), 501-505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2011.07.009

This article describes an innovative initiative to support partnership working between trade unions and management in three National Health Service Trusts, by means of shared participation in a series of learning and development days. Although there... Read More about Learning together, working together: An evaluation of experiences of a pilot programme for partnership between unions and management in the health service.

Developing the evidence base of patient and public involvement in health and social care research: The case for measuring impact (2011)
Journal Article
Haywood, K. L., Beresford, P., Staniszewska, S., Adebajo, A., Barber, R., Brady, L. M., …Williamson, T. (2011). Developing the evidence base of patient and public involvement in health and social care research: The case for measuring impact. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 35(6), 628-632. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-6431.2011.01020.x

While patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care research has progressed successfully in the last decade, a range of difficulties with the evidence base exist, including poor understanding of the concept of impact, limited theoriz... Read More about Developing the evidence base of patient and public involvement in health and social care research: The case for measuring impact.

Injecting practices and knowledge of the associated risk among 1619-year-old injecting drug users in Plymouth, UK (2010)
Journal Article
Trudgeon, H., & Evans, D. (2010). Injecting practices and knowledge of the associated risk among 1619-year-old injecting drug users in Plymouth, UK. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 17(6), 808-820. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687630902769707

There has been significant research into the harms associated with injecting drugs and about the use of needle exchange programmes (NEPs) by adult injecting drug users (IDUs) in the United Kingdom. However, very limited research has been conducted in... Read More about Injecting practices and knowledge of the associated risk among 1619-year-old injecting drug users in Plymouth, UK.

A systematic review of the impact of participatory approaches by UK public health units on health and social outcomes (2010)
Journal Article
Evans, D., Pilkington, P., & McEachran, M. (2010). A systematic review of the impact of participatory approaches by UK public health units on health and social outcomes. Journal of Public Health, 32(3), 418-426. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdq014

Background: There has been a philosophical commitment to participation in public health since the 1970s. UK policy rhetoric on participation in public health has been particularly marked since 1997. It is less clear that participatory approaches have... Read More about A systematic review of the impact of participatory approaches by UK public health units on health and social outcomes.

Rhetoric or reality? A systematic review of the impact of participatory approaches by UK public health units on health and social outcomes (2010)
Journal Article
Evans, D., Pilkington, P., & McEachran, M. (2010). Rhetoric or reality? A systematic review of the impact of participatory approaches by UK public health units on health and social outcomes. Journal of Public Health, 32(3), 418-426. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdq014

Background: There has been a philosophical commitment to participation in public health since the 1970s. UK policy rhetoric on participation in public health has been particularly marked since 1997. It is less clear that participatory approaches have... Read More about Rhetoric or reality? A systematic review of the impact of participatory approaches by UK public health units on health and social outcomes.

Preconceptions, power and position: researcher reflections on public involvement in research (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Pollard, K., Evans, D., Dalrymple, J., Miers, M., Moule, P., & Thomas, J. (2010, September). Preconceptions, power and position: researcher reflections on public involvement in research. Paper presented at British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference, University of Durham, Durham, UK

In the United Kingdom, the Department of Health and many funding bodies require public involvement in health and social care research. However, members of the public are still mostly engaged in research as subjects/participants, or in a limited consu... Read More about Preconceptions, power and position: researcher reflections on public involvement in research.

Politics and prospects for health promotion in England: Mainstreamed or marginalised? (2008)
Journal Article
Samuel, A. S., Wills, J., Evans, D., & Scott-Samuel, A. (2008). Politics and prospects for health promotion in England: Mainstreamed or marginalised?. Critical Public Health, 18(4), 521-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581590802543775

This paper critically examines the public policy environment that underpins the politics of health promotion in England. English health policy from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s was not receptive to health promotion. The new Labour government elect... Read More about Politics and prospects for health promotion in England: Mainstreamed or marginalised?.

Patient Advice and Liaison Services: Results of an audit survey in England (2008)
Journal Article
Evans, D., Powell, J., & Cross, T. (2008). Patient Advice and Liaison Services: Results of an audit survey in England. Health Expectations, 11(3), 304-316. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1369-7625.2008.00505.x

Objective: To assess the extent national standards for Patient Advice and Liaison Services (PALS) were achieved across England. Context: PALS are an important element of patient and public involvement strategy in England. Seven national standards for... Read More about Patient Advice and Liaison Services: Results of an audit survey in England.

The impact of participation in performing arts on adolescent health and behaviour: A systematic review of the literature (2008)
Journal Article
Brain, S., Daykin, N., Orme, J., Evans, D., Salmon, D., & Mceachran, M. (2008). The impact of participation in performing arts on adolescent health and behaviour: A systematic review of the literature. Journal of Health Psychology, 13(2), 251-264. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105307086699

This article reports a systematic review of literature published between 1994 and 2004 on the effects of performing arts for health in young people aged 11-18. The review includes research on music, performance, drama and dance in community settings... Read More about The impact of participation in performing arts on adolescent health and behaviour: A systematic review of the literature.

Through the glass ceiling-and back again: The experiences of two of the first non-medical directors of public health in England (2007)
Journal Article
Evans, D., & Adams, L. (2007). Through the glass ceiling-and back again: The experiences of two of the first non-medical directors of public health in England. Public Health, 121(6), 426-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2007.02.006

In 2001, the English Department of Health announced a radical re-organisation of the NHS under the banner of 'shifting the balance of power'. As part of this re-organisation health authorities were abolished and the main NHS public health responsibil... Read More about Through the glass ceiling-and back again: The experiences of two of the first non-medical directors of public health in England.