Dr Bronagh Walsh BSc, PGDip, DipAdNursing, PhD, PCAP

Associate Professor

Dr Bronagh Walsh is an Associate Professor within Health Sciences, University of Southampton and Doctoral Programmes Director for Health Sciences. Bronagh’s research expertise is in using routine data to explore use and outcomes of health care in older people, with a particular focus on hospital admissions and frailty.

Rising hospital admissions among older people remain a challenge for health services across the world; we need to create health care systems that can respond to the needs of our ageing populations

Programme leader for the MRes Clinical Research to Director of Doctoral Programmes
Research into services for frail older people, particularly admission avoidance

Advisory board membership

Editorial board for International Journal of Older People Nursing, 2004 - 2009

Research

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Teaching

Contact

Research interests

Research into:

Patterns of health service use in older people
Avoidable admissions in older people
Influence of frailty on health service use
Monitoring and predicting admission risk in older people
Development and evaluation of admission avoidance interventions

Studentships

2015-2018 Walsh, B. HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme Masters in Clinical Research Studentship Scheme Awarded 10 studentships per year by HEE/NIHR.

The aim of the studentships is to build clinical research capacity in nursing, allied health and health scientist professions. These studentships form part of the Integrated Clinical Academic Programme.

Funded studentships

Sarah Mercer (Clinical Academic)
Weiqi Liao (ESRC DTC)

Other research projects:

The dynamics of frailty in older people: modelling impact on health care demand and outcomes to inform service planning and commissioning

Treatment burden and capacity among people with multimorbidity – a follow up survey

Research group

Health Needs

Research theme

Ageing and Dementia

Research project(s)

A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of nurse-delivered vestibular rehabilitation for dizzy patients in primary care - Dormant

Exploring the effects of dizziness in older people and use of exercise-based rehabilitation therapy

An exploration of the characteristics of patients admitted to hospital with ‘signs, symptoms and ill-defined conditions’ - Dormant

Exploratory study to increase the understanding of the precipitating factors leading to admission in the older patient

Improving patient pathways for older people admitted to hospital with 'ill-defined conditions' - Dormant

Exploring ways of reducing preventable emergency admissions amongst older people

The relationship between physiological impairment, chronic disease and function disability in older people admitted to hospital with ill-defined conditions - Dormant

Many emergency admissions are known to be for alleviation of signs, symptoms and functional disorders (known as ill-defined conditions) rather than a definitive medical problem, and may therefore be avoidable.

Factors influencing the decision to admit to an acute medical bed - Dormant

Project to investigate decreasing numbers of acute beds available due to inappropriate admissions

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Thesis

Walsh, B. M. (2000). A randomized controlled trial comparing nurse-led with standard care for post-acute medical patients.

Lecturing on Design & Methods for Clinical & Health Research
Curriculum development in quantitative research methods and clinical research
Strategic leadership and development in PG curriculum and PGR research training
Research supervision
Doctoral Programmes Director
Lecturing on Conducting Clinical & Health Research

Dr Bronagh Walsh
University of Southampton, Health Science, Building 67, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ

Room Number NNN: 67/4025

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