Here is something of a project update, following another hiatus in blogging.
Working alongside a fine set of colleagues, much of my research work both last year and this has focused on the CAMH-Crisis2 project funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research. This has been examining how mental health crisis services for children and young people in England and Wales are organised, implemented and experienced.
In June 2023 a final, approved, version of our protocol appeared in the new(ish) NIHR Open Research journal. The paper is free to download and to read, via the link above.
As an aside, this was my (and I think the whole team’s) first experience of jointly producing an article using a post-publication open peer review process. This involves article revisions in the light of reviews received following initial publication, and in our case led to version 2 of our manuscript becoming the definitive version.
Since publishing this protocol paper, lots (and lots!) has happened with this study. We’ve completed the data generation phase for our first work package (a survey of services), and are close to completing our analysis. We’re deep into data generation in our second work package, which is largely involving interviews with commissioners, managers, practitioners, young people and family members in each of eight case study sites across Wales and England. By design our cases are remarkably diverse: more to follow once we have findings to share.
Meanwhile, here’s a link to my just-opened Bluesky account, which I’m planning to start using in preference to Twitter:
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