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Personal profile
Overview
Research Associate, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research
Research interests
Nicola is a health services researcher at the University of Manchester with research interests including, understanding and measuring patient experience, and health inequalities.
Nicola's NIHR SPCR Launching Fellowship 2020 enabled her to complete some early intervention work with significant patient and public involvement exploring how best to utilise patient reported outcome measure (PROM) feedback in older people with multiple long-term conditions in primary care.
Nicola's doctoral research involved understanding and measuring empowerment in patients with long-term conditions in primary care. She led on the development and preliminary validation of the Empowerment Scale (ES) - a patient reported outcome measure (PROM) freely available to use, and is her most cited work to date with worldwide impact. Her PROM has recieved huge International research and knowledge transfer since it was first preliminary validated in a sample of older people with multiple long-term conditions in the United Kingdom. Nicola's PROM has now been cross-culturally validated globally with different long-term condition populations, and 11 languages:
- Spain: elderly patients with heart failure
- Portugal: elderly patients with long-term conditions
- Canada (Quebec): elderly patients with myotonic dystrophy
- United States: obese, African adolescents and parents in underserved populations
- Belgium, Sweden and Denmark: adolescents with congenital heart disease
- China: elderly patients with long-term conditions
Teaching
Joint Lead for Social Responsibility for the Division
Academic advisor, mentor and mentee
Journal reviewer to: Health Expectations, BMC Series, BMJ Open, BJGP
My collaborations
- Professor Caroline Sanders, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care
- Dr Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi, Divisin of Population Health , Health Services Research and Primary Care
- Professor Peter Bower, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care
- Dr Brian McMillan, Divison of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care
- Professor William Dixon, Divison of Musculoskeletal & Dermatological Sciences
- Professor John McBeth, Division of Musculoskeletal & Dermatological Sciences
- Professor Karina Lovell, Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
- Professor Penny Bee, Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
- Dr Peter Coventry, Health Sciences, University of York
- Professor Carolyn Chew Graham, Primary Care Health Sciences, Keele University
- Professor Joanne Protheroe, Primary Care Health Sciences, Keele University
Memberships of committees and professional bodies
Division Social Responsibility Joint Lead
NIHR Academy member
Society for Academy Primary Care member and mentee
MRC Hub for Trials member
Regional Representative for North West UK Research Staff Association (UKRSA)
Methodological knowledge
Health services research
Health psychology
Psychometric
Scale development
Systematic review
Mixed method
Randomised controlled trial
SWAT (study-within-a-trial)
Patient and public involvement
Co-production
Ethics and research governance
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester
Health Psychology (MSc with Distinction, Stage 1, BPS accredited), Staffordshire University
Psychology with Art (BA Degree with Honours, BPS accredited), University of Chester
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Review Editor for Health Policy and Organization Frontiers in Health Services, Health Policy and Organization Frontiers in Health Services
Jun 2021 → …
Regional representative, UK Research Staff Association (UKRSA) Representative for the North West
2019 → …
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Digital Futures
- Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing
- Health Inequalities
Keywords
- Patient and public involvement and engagement
- mixed methods research
- qualitative research methods
- patient reported outcome measures
- multimorbidity
- elderly
- patient empowerment
- digital health
- psychometrics
- feedback
- patient experience
- co-design
- co-production
- systematic review
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Involving patients in patient safety: is a co-designed multi-component intervention to involve patients and carers in patient safety feasible and acceptable?
Morris, R., Sanders, C., Gallacher, K., Hann, M., Giles, S., Small, N. & Campbell, S., 20 Apr 2022, (Accepted/In press).Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
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Co-designing New Tools for Collecting, Analysing and Presenting Patient Experience Data in NHS Services: Working in Partnership With Patients and Carers
Small, N., Ong, B. N., Lewis, A., Allen, D., Bagshaw, N., Nahar, P. & Sanders, C., 1 Dec 2021, In: Research Involvement and Engagement. 7, 1, p. 85 85.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Engagement with consumer smartwatches for tracking symptoms of individuals living with multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity): A longitudinal observational study
Ali, S. M., Selby, D., Kazi, K., Dempsey, K., Mackey, E., Small, N., van der Veer, S., McMillan, B., Bower, P., Brown, B., Mcbeth, J. & Dixon, W., 7 Dec 2021, In: Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity. 11Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Incidence, origins and avoidable harm of missed opportunities in diagnosis: longitudinal patient record review in 21 English general practices
Cheraghi-Sohi, S., Holland, F., Singh, H., Danczak, A., Esmail, A., Morris, R., Small, N., Williams, R., de Wet, C., Campbell, S. & Reeves, D., 1 Dec 2021, In: BMJ Quality and Safety. 30, 12, p. 977-985 9 p., 0.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Protocol for a non-randomised feasibility study evaluating a co-designed patient safety guide in primary care
Morris, R., Gallacher, K., Hann, M., Rolfe, C., Small, N., Giles, S., Sanders, C. & Campbell, S., 20 Jan 2021, In: BMJ Open. 11, 1, p. e039752 8 p., e039752.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
Prizes
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EMPOWER PPIE Partnership Highly Commended for the Exceptional Contribution to Patient and Public Involvement 2020
Small, Nicola (Recipient), Mar 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Making a Difference Awards for Social Responsibility: Commended Award for Outstanding Public Contribution: The EMPOWER Partnership
Small, Nicola (Recipient), 12 May 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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NIHR School for Primary Care Research Launching Fellowship
Small, Nicola (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Outstanding Contribution to Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement
Small, Nicola (Recipient), Jul 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Activities
- 1 Invited talk
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"No question is stupid" - A Q&A on Conference Presentations
Nadine Mirza (Invited speaker), Nicola Small (Invited speaker) & Magdalena Nowakowska (Speaker)
8 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Datasets
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Understanding experiences of and preferences for service user and carer involvement in physical health care discussions within mental health care planning
Small, N. (Contributor), Brooks, H. (Contributor), Grundy, A. (Contributor), Pedley, R. (Contributor), Gibbons, C. (Contributor), Lovell, K. (Contributor) & Bee, P. (Contributor), figshare , 13 Apr 2017
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3742370.v1, https://figshare.com/collections/Understanding_experiences_of_and_preferences_for_service_user_and_carer_involvement_in_physical_health_care_discussions_within_mental_health_care_planning/3742370/1
Dataset
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Exercise in the treatment of clinical anxiety in general practice – a systematic review and meta-analysis
Aylett, E. (Contributor), Small, N. (Contributor) & Bower, P. (Contributor), figshare , 16 Jul 2018
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4167467.v1, https://figshare.com/collections/Exercise_in_the_treatment_of_clinical_anxiety_in_general_practice_a_systematic_review_and_meta-analysis/4167467/1
Dataset
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Living with complexity; marshalling resources: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis of lived experience of mental and physical multimorbidity
Coventry, P. (Contributor), Small, N. (Contributor), Panagioti, M. (Contributor), Adeyemi, I. (Contributor) & Bee, P. (Contributor), figshare , 24 Nov 2015
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3621212.v1, https://figshare.com/collections/Living_with_complexity_marshalling_resources_a_systematic_review_and_qualitative_meta-synthesis_of_lived_experience_of_mental_and_physical_multimorbidity/3621212/1
Dataset
Thesis
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Patient empowerment in long-term conditions: development and validation of a new measure
Author: Small, N., 1 Aug 2012Supervisor: Bower, P. (Supervisor) & Chew-Graham, C. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Phd
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