Dr Lesley Wye

Summary

Lesley's research interests include: knowledge exchange, healthcare commissioning, end of life care, community services, quality initiatives (e.g. CQUIN) and complementary therapies. She is currently leading on a NIHR funded study of knowledge exchange between clinical commissioners and external providers (private and not-for-profit) due to finish in February 2014. She co-supervises a PhD student looking at universal consent in primary care research. Her teaching responsibilities include tutoring on the first year Society, Health and Medicine course and running a second year elective on complementary therapies in musculo-skeletal conditions.

Lesley was awarded a BA in English and sociology from Tufts University in Boston, and she then spent six years teaching English in Barcelona Spain. After obtaining a MSc in Health Services Research from the University of Hull, she went on to occupy several research posts in the NHS and the Department of Health. From 1995-2001, Lesley worked at the King's Fund where she carried out research into clinical governance in primary care and research implementation. Lesley also qualified as a complementary therapist and ran her own practice from 2001-2006.

Lesley came to Bristol in 2003, when she won a NIHR pre-doctoral fellowship to study the mainstreaming of complementary therapies into NHS primary care. She was awarded a PhD in 2008 and became a Research Fellow in 2011. Lesley has led on several studies including a realistic evaluation of end of life care service reconfiguration in Somerset and North Somerset (co-PI with Sarah Purdy), a feasbility study exploring ways to economically evaluate the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital and a NHS Bristol funded study to develop quality indicators for district nurses. 

Expertise

My research interests are; integration of complementary therapies into NHS primary care; and quality indicators for community health services/ district nursing.

Memberships

Organisations

School of Social and Community Medicine

Other sites

• Populationhealth

Centres, collaborations and units

• Centre for Academic Primary Care

Recent publications

• Wye, L, Lasseter, GM, Percival, JF, Simmonds, BAJ, Duncan, LJ & Purdy, S 2012, ‘Independent Evaluation of the Marie Curie Cancer Care Delivering Choice Programme in Somerset and North Somerset’. Centre for Primary Health Care, Department of Social and Community Medicine, The University of Bristol
• Horrocks, S, Cook, J, Ashton, N & Wye, L 2012, ‘Made to measure? Assessing feasibility of quality indicators for district nursing’. British Journal of Community Nursing, vol 17., pp. 28 - 34
• Davies, P, Wye, L, Horrocks, S, Salisbury, C & Sharp, D 2011, ‘Developing quality indicators for community services: the case of district nursing’. Quality in Primary Care, vol 19., pp. 155 - 166
• Evans, M, Paterson, C, Wye, L, Chapman, R, Robinson, J, Norton, R & Bertschinger, R 2011, ‘Lifestyle and self-care advice within traditional acupuncture consultations: a qualitative observational study nested in a co-operative inquiry’. Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, vol 17., pp. 519 - 529
• Cramer, HA, Shaw, ARG, Wye, L & Weiss, MC 2010, ‘Over-the-counter advice seeking about complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) in community pharmacies and health shops: an ethnographic study’. Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 18., pp. 41?50
• Wye, L, Shaw, A & Sharp, D 2009, ‘Patient choice and evidence based decisions: The case of complementary therapies’. Health Expectations., pp. 321 - 330
• Wye, L, Sharp, D & Shaw, A 2009, ‘The impact of NHS based complementary therapy services on health outcomes and NHS costs: A review of service audits and evaluations’. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, vol 9., pp. 5
• Wye, L, Shaw, A & Sharp, D 2008, ‘Designing a ‘NHS friendly’ complementary therapy service: a qualitative case study’. BMC Health Services Research, vol 8., pp. 173 - 173
• Wye, L, Hay, A, Northstone, K, Bishop, J, Headley, J & Thompson, E 2008, ‘Complementary or alternative? The use of homeopathic products and antibiotics amongst preschool children’. BMC Family Practice, vol 9:8.
• Wye, L, Shaw, A & Sharp, D 2006, ‘Evaluating complementary and alternative therapy services in primary and community care settings: a review of 25 service evaluations’. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, vol 14(3)., pp. 220 - 230

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