Paramedic experiences of providing care in Wales (UK) during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic (PECC-19): a qualitative study using evolved grounded theory by Nigel Rees, Julia Williams, Lauren Smythe, Chloe Hogan

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Defining Design and Technology in an Age of Uncertainty by David Wooff

“… Long standing debate surrounds the position that Design and Technology holds in the English and Welsh national curriculum. Some commentators espouse alignment with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) as its natural home, whilst others argue that this stifles creativity and takes no account of the ‘designerly’ nature they consider to be a central tenet of the subject. …”
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Defining Design and Technology in an Age of Uncertainty by David Wooff

“… Long standing debate surrounds the position that Design and Technology holds in the English and Welsh national curriculum. Some commentators espouse alignment with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) as its natural home, whilst others argue that this stifles creativity and takes no account of the ‘designerly’ nature they consider to be a central tenet of the subject. …”
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Tweets don’t vote – Twitter discourse from Wales and England during Brexit by Larissa Peixoto Gomes, Larissa Peixoto Gomes

“…The current discussion of Welsh national identity includes its claims as a “nation of sanctuary” and that understands oppression and marginalization. …”
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Defining Design and Technology in an Age of Uncertainty by David Wooff

“… Long standing debate surrounds the position that Design and Technology holds in the English and Welsh national curriculum. Some commentators espouse alignment with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) as its natural home, whilst others argue that this stifles creativity and takes no account of the ‘designerly’ nature they consider to be a central tenet of the subject. …”
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Temporal niche partitioning as a potential mechanism for coexistence in two sympatric mesopredator sharks by Neil D. Cook, Abbie Jenkins, Sarah L. Perry, Sarah E. Perkins, Jo Cable

“…These findings are directly relevant for ongoing development of the Welsh Marine Evidence Strategy (2019-2025) and the Welsh National Marine Plan, particularly to inform spatial planning to strengthen the role of SAC management design in protecting important shark areas.…”
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Concentrações séricas eficazes após doses únicas de drogas anti-epiléticas: conceito de dose carga by Paulo R.M. Bittencourt, Alan Richens

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The Provision of Careers Guidance in Welsh Schools by Rhys Davies, Suhaer Yunus

“…Methods Data from the Welsh National Pupil Database is combined with client information held by Careers Wales to examine the incidence and nature of careers guidance received by children and how their characteristics effect the likelihood of receiving careers-related services. …”
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Predicting psychosis admission rates in Wales using neighbourhood deprivation by Leah Jones, Mike Jackson, Christopher WN Saville

“…Methods We linked a large dataset of routinely recorded psychiatric admissions from the Welsh National Health Service to small area indices of socio-economic deprivation (the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation). …”
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Careers Guidance and Transitions to Further Education in Wales by Katy Huxley, Rhys Davies, Suhaer Yunus

“…This study utilises the linked database of school and pupil records, combining information from the Welsh National Pupil Database (NPD) with individual learner records from the Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR) for young people who are registered at post-compulsory education providers, combined with anonymised client information held by Careers Wales. …”
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Consent to discuss participation in research: a pilot study by Andrea Cipriani, Catherine Henshall, Sophie Walker, Alvaro Barrera, Mark Hancock, Jennifer Potts, Lola Martos, Stuart Bell, John Geddes

“…There is debate about which is the best approach to use to discuss participation in research in real-world clinical settings.Objective We aimed to determine the feasibility of asking all clinical staff within one hospital Trust (an organisation that provides secondary health services within the English and Welsh National Health Service) to use a newly created form on the Trust’s electronic patient records system, as a means of asking patients to consent to discuss participation in research (the opt-in approach). …”
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Financial interests of patient organisations contributing to technology assessment at England’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: policy review by Mandeville, KL, Barker, R, Packham, A, Sowerby, C, Yarrow, K, Patrick, H

“…Setting: Appraisals of medicines and treatments (technologies) for use in the English and Welsh National Health Service. Participants: 53 patient organisations contributing to 41 NICE technology appraisals published in 2015 and 2016, with 117 separate occasions that a patient organisation contributed to the appraisal of a technology. …”

A scoping review of local quality improvement using data from UK perioperative National Clinical Audits by Duncan Wagstaff, Samantha Warnakulasuriya, Georgina Singleton, Suneetha Ramani Moonesinghe, Naomi Fulop, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros

“…Methods NCAs were identified from the directories held by Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), Scottish Healthcare Audits and the Welsh National Clinical Audit and Outcome Review Advisory Committee. …”
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Public understanding of, and attitudes towards, data linkage in research by Gwenllian Moody, Fiona Lugg

“…Approach HealthWise Wales is a Welsh national cohort using prospectively collected data linked with NHS records. …”
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An investigation into the impact of congenital anomalies on infant morbidity and mortality by Ho, PSY

“…</p> <p>A population-based cohort study was conducted using linked de-identified data from the Welsh national Congenital Anomaly Register and Information Service (CARIS) and Office for National Statistics (ONS) between 1998 and 2017. …”

Identifying Continence OptioNs after Stroke (ICONS): an evidence synthesis, case study and exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial of the introduction of a systematic voidi... by Lois H Thomas, Beverley French, Christopher J Sutton, Denise Forshaw, Michael J Leathley, Christopher R Burton, Brenda Roe, Francine M Cheater, Jo Booth, Elaine McColl, Bernadette Carter, Andrew Walker, Katie Brittain, Gemma Whiteley, Helen Rodgers, James Barrett, Caroline L Watkins, on behalf of the ICONS project team and the ICONS patient, public and carer involvement groups

“…Excess treatment costs and research support costs were funded by participating NHS trusts and health boards, Lancashire and Cumbria and East Anglia Comprehensive Local Research Networks and the Welsh National Institute for Social Care and Health Research.…”
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