D-SITAR Methods Report
This report summarises the methods used in evaluating the implementation of the UK government's 10-year drug strategy investment in the Treatment and Recovery Portfolio in England (D-SITAR).
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Jennifer Newbould is a research leader at RAND Europe. She has extensive experience in health care research having conducted numerous research projects for clients including the Department of Health, NIHR and NICE.
Newbould specialises in qualitative research techniques, particularly the use of interviews. She is particularly interested in patient experience and is currently working on projects about telephone triage in general practice as an alternative to face to face appointments, research on patient responses to questionnaires about GP consultations and an evaluation of the UCLH/Macmillan cancer centre.
Newbould holds a Ph.D. from the University of London and B.Sc. in sociology from the University of Surrey.
Education
Ph.D., University of London; B.Sc. in sociology, University of Guildford
Concurrent Non-RAND Positions
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
Selected Work
- Newbould J, Smith FJ, Francis S-A, "I’m fine doing it on my own: partnerships between young people and their parents in the management of medication for asthma and diabetes," Journal of Child Health Care, 2008
- Smith FJ, Taylor KMG, Newbould J and Keady S, "Medicines for chronic illness at school: experiences and concerns of young people and their parents," Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 33(5), 2008
- Newbould J, Francis S-A, Smith FJ, "Young people’s experiences of managing asthma and diabetes at school," Archives of disease in childhood, 92, 2007
- Newbould J, Taylor D, Bury M, "Lay led self-management in chronic illness: a review of the evidence," Chronic Illness, 2(4), 2006
- Newbould J "The ideas and health context from which self management emerged," in Jones, F.R. (Ed), Working with self-management courses – The thoughts of participants, planners and policy makers, Oxford University Press, 2010