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Biomedical informatics transforming the care of people with chronic diseases internationally

Summary of the impact

A health informatics platform supporting chronic disease management nationally and internationally creating impact upon:

  • NHS: Implementation in all 1043 general practices, 38 hospitals, and 14 Health Boards in Scotland, continuously monitoring care of 271,000 people with diabetes, with evidence of improved clinical outcomes.
  • Government Policy: Embedded in Government policy: Scottish Diabetes Framework, Scottish Diabetes Action Plan; highlighted as "best practice" in the 2009 House of Lords Report Genomic Medicine and UK Life Sciences Strategy 2012.
  • Commercialisation: A start up informatics company, now with 82 employees and deployments internationally.
  • Internationalisation: Implementation of the informatics network through the Kuwait-Scotland eHealth innovation network.

Submitting Institution

University of Dundee

Unit of Assessment

Clinical Medicine

Summary Impact Type

Health

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Public Health and Health Services

The Adolescent Diabetes Needs Assessment Tool (ADNAT) Research Programme

Summary of the impact

An urgent need has been identified to redesign diabetes health services for young people in the UK, which has the fifth largest paediatric diabetes population in the world with no standardised approach to care. The Adolescent Diabetes Needs Assessment Tool (ADNAT) App is the first intervention of its kind filling a recognised gap in UK service provision. Evidence from the underpinning research programme that has studied adolescent diabetes self-care and explored technological methods of learning, has guided the development, validation and clinical evaluation of ADNAT which has now been included in the UK's 2013-2018 National Paediatric Service Improvement Delivery Plan.

Submitting Institution

University of Chester

Unit of Assessment

Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy

Summary Impact Type

Political

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Clinical Sciences, Public Health and Health Services

Diabetes prevention - Wareham

Summary of the impact

Research founded on population-based cohort studies has directly informed NICE Public Health guidance on the prevention of diabetes. In prospective studies Wareham and Griffin demonstrated that diabetes can be predicted by a simple risk score using routinely available information and by HbA1c levels. Although people with a high HbA1c account for 36% of incidence, the majority of future cases emerge from the larger population of people with moderately elevated levels, justifying a more population-wide perspective on the prevention of diabetes. The research also showed that the same behaviour targets that are effective in high risk individuals are strongly associated with diabetes in the wider population.

Submitting Institution

University of Cambridge

Unit of Assessment

Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care

Summary Impact Type

Health

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology, Clinical Sciences, Public Health and Health Services

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