Dr Frances Sherratt PhD MSc BSc

Research Overview

NIHR INCLUDE Socioeconomic Disadvantage Framework - Co-developing a framework for researchers to make clinical research more inclusive to patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds

CO-ACT - Making participation in cancer research more accessible to patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds by optimising trial communication - a study of how health professionals communicate with patients

BASIS Communication Study - The BASIS study is comparing a full time brace, with a night-time only brace, for patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. The communication study is a qualitative study embedded within the main BASIS study, which explores views about bracing and experiences of being approached about the main study. The aim is to make studies, like BASIS, more patient-centred.

HAP-FAST - Feasibility study of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of contemporary diagnostics for patients with suspected hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP).