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Women from minoritised ethnicities’ perception of cervical screening information leaflets (2025)
Journal Article

Cervical screening rates are dropping in the UK, with non-attendance rates remaining higher in those from minoritised ethnicities. Amongst barriers to attendance includes a lack of awareness of risk of cervical cancer and understanding of the role of... Read More about Women from minoritised ethnicities’ perception of cervical screening information leaflets.

Delivering healthcare in multiprofessional teams: The negotiation of tasks (2025)
Journal Article

Multiprofessional team working is assumed to be difficult. This is often associated to professional identity and jurisdiction. Despite anticipated difficulties, few studies examine teams working in their main arena: team meetings. One important funct... Read More about Delivering healthcare in multiprofessional teams: The negotiation of tasks.

Quality of life with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome/Joint Hypermobility Syndrome: A systematic review of psychosocial interventions (2025)
Journal Article

Background: Psychosocial interventions may improve QoL in people with wider chronic pain conditions. However, the evidence requires refining for application to EDS/JHMS. This systematic review aimed to identify, assess and synthesise the evidence of... Read More about Quality of life with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome/Joint Hypermobility Syndrome: A systematic review of psychosocial interventions.

Patient-clinician communication about weight loss (2025)
Journal Article

The worldwide prevalence of obesity has more than doubled between 1990 and 2022, with more than 890 million adults living with obesity in 2022.1 International guidelines recommend that clinicians offer weight loss support to their patients living wit... Read More about Patient-clinician communication about weight loss.

The UK NHS cervical screening information leaflet: Discourse, purpose and potential for change (2024)
Journal Article

Background Cervical cancer screening prevents unnecessary deaths, yet rates of attendance have been dropping in the United Kingdom. Leaflets communicate screening information in invites to everyone eligible to attend. However, these information leafl... Read More about The UK NHS cervical screening information leaflet: Discourse, purpose and potential for change.

The basis of patient resistance to opportunistic discussions about weight in primary care (2023)
Journal Article

Clinicians expect that talking to patients with obesity about potential/future weight loss will be a difficult conversation, especially if it is not the reason that a patient is seeking medical help. Despite this expectation, many governments ask cli... Read More about The basis of patient resistance to opportunistic discussions about weight in primary care.

Learning from pandemic precarity: The future of early career researchers in qualitative health research (2023)
Journal Article

This commentary is a critical reflection by early career researchers (ECRs) working in qualitative health research (QHR) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The consequences of the pandemic have been acutely felt by ECRs working in QHR. M... Read More about Learning from pandemic precarity: The future of early career researchers in qualitative health research.

Clinician-patient communication about emergency aerial medical evacuation in case of infectious disease (2023)
Journal Article

Aerial medical evacuation (AME) refers to the removal of patients from one site to a medical facility elsewhere using medically equipped air ambulances.1 In cases of certain infectious diseases it may be necessary to isolate patients in a patient iso... Read More about Clinician-patient communication about emergency aerial medical evacuation in case of infectious disease.

What advice do general practitioners give to people living with obesity to lose weight? A qualitative content analysis of recorded interactions (2022)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: Guidelines recommend general practitioners (GPs) take every opportunity to talk to people living with obesity about their weight, and evidence shows even very brief advice is associated with weight loss. However, little is known about wha... Read More about What advice do general practitioners give to people living with obesity to lose weight? A qualitative content analysis of recorded interactions.

Talking delicately: Providing opportunistic weight loss advice to people living with obesity (2022)
Journal Article

Obesity is a major worldwide public health problem. Clinicians are asked to communicate public health messages, including encouraging and supporting weight loss, during consultations with patients living with obesity. However, research shows that tal... Read More about Talking delicately: Providing opportunistic weight loss advice to people living with obesity.

Gender in the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) checklist (2021)
Journal Article

We are a group of researchers working in the Medical Sciences division at the University of Oxford. Many of us regularly use Equator’s Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) checklist [1] when reporting results from our stud... Read More about Gender in the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) checklist.