Publications and outputs

RSET: rapid service evaluation team

Published papers

Walton H, Crellin N, Litchfield I, Sherlaw-Johnson C, Georghiou T, Massou E, Sidhu M, Tomini SM, Herlitz L, Ellins J, Ng P-L, Fulop NJ (2025) Applying the major system change framework to evaluate implementation of rapid healthcare system change: a case study of COVID-19 remote home monitoring services. Implementation Science Communications 6:24 (published March 2025)
Walton H, et al. (2025) Peer support for adult social care in prisons in England and Wales: a mixed-methods rapid evaluation. Health and Social Care Delivery Research. (published January 2025)
Massou E, et al. (2025) Systematic review of integrated mental and physical health services for children and young people with eating and functional symptoms. Health and Social Care Delivery Research. (published January 2025)
Massou E, et al. (2025) Integration of physical and mental health services for children and young people with eating disorders and functional symptom disorders: discrete choice experiment. BMC Health Services Research. (published January 2025)
Walton H, et al. (2024) Peer support for health, social care and educational needs in adult prisons: A systematic scoping review. Public Health. (published November 2024)
Sherlaw-Johnson C, et al (2024) Investigating innovations in outpatient services: a mixed-methods rapid evaluation. Health and Social Care Delivery Research. (published September 2024)
Crellin N, et al. (2024) Patient Characteristics Associated With Disparities in Engagement With and Experience of COVID-19 Remote Home Monitoring Services: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation. Health Expectations. (published August 2024)
Tomini S, et al. (2024) A Cost Evaluation of COVID-19 Remote Home Monitoring Services in England. PharmacoEconomics – Open. (published July 2024)
Herlitz L, Crellin N, Vindrola-Padros C, Ellins J, Georghiou T, Litchfield I, Massou E, Ng PL, Chris Sherlaw-Johnson, Sidhu MS, Tomini SM, Walton H, Fulop NJ. Patient and staff experiences of using technology-enabled and analogue models of remote home monitoring for COVID-19 in England: A mixed-method evaluation. International Journal of Medical Informatics 179, November 2023, 105230. (published September 2023)
Smith J, Ellins J, Sherlaw-Johnson C, Vindrola-Padros C, Appleby J, Morris SJ, Sussex J and Fulop NJ (2023) Rapid evaluation of service innovations in health and social care: key considerations. Health and Social Care Delivery Research 11(11). (published July 2023)
Appleby J, Georghiou T, Ledger J, Rolewicz L, Sherlaw-Johnson C, Tomini SM, Frerich JM and Ng PL (2023) Youth violence intervention programme for vulnerable young people attending emergency departments in London: a rapid evaluation. Health and Social Care Delivery Research 11(10). (published July 2023)
Sidhu M, Walton H, Crellin N, Ellins J, Herlitz L, Litchfield I, Massou E, Tomini SM, Vindrola-Padros C, Fulop N (2023). Staff experiences of training and delivery of remote home monitoring services for patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in England: A mixed-methods study. (published June 2023)
Walton H, Crellin NE, Sidhu MS, Sherlaw-Johnson C, Herlitz L, Litchfield I, Georghiou T, Tomini SM, Massou E, Ellins J, Sussex J, Fulop NJ. (2023) Undertaking rapid evaluations during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from evaluating COVID-19 remote home monitoring services in England. (published February 2023)
Sidhu M, Litchfield I, Miller R, Fulop NJ, Janta B, Tanner J, Mastrello, G, Bousfield, J, Vindrola-Padros, C, Sussex, J (2022). Using pulse oximeters in care homes for residents with COVID-19 and other conditions: a rapid mixed-methods evaluation (published December 2022)
Fulop, NJ, et al. (2022) A Rapid Mixed Methods Evaluation of Remote Home Monitoring Models During the COVID-19 Pandemic in England NIHR Journals Library (web report) (published November 2022) (Link to the Full NIHR report)
Sidhu M S, Ford GA, Fulop NJ, Roberts M. (2022). Learning networks in the pandemic: mobilising evidence for improvement. BMJ (published October 2022)
Ramsay, A. et al. (2022) Prehospital video triage of potential stroke patients in North Central London and East Kent: rapid mixed-methods service evaluation. Health and Social Care Delivery Research (published September 2022)
Walton, H, et al. (2022) Patients’ and carers’ experiences of, and engagement with remote home monitoring services for COVID-19 patients: a rapid mixed-methods study. Health Expectations (published in July 2022)
Walton, H, Tomini, S.M., Ng, P.L. & Fulop, N.J. (2022) How is social care provided in UK adult prisons? British Journal of Social Care (published in August 2022)
Georghiou, T. et al. (2022) The impact of post-hospital remote monitoring of COVID-19 patients using pulse oximetry: a national observational study using hospital activity data. eClinicalMedicine (published in June 2022)
Vindrola-Padros, C., et. al. (2021) The Special Measures for Quality and Challenged Provider Regimes in the English NHS: A Rapid Evaluation of a National Improvement Initiative for Failing Healthcare Organisations. International Journal of Health Policy and Management (published April 2022)
Sherlaw-Johnson, C. et al. (2022) The impact of remote home monitoring of people with COVID-19 using pulse oximetry: A national population and observational study. eClinicalMedicine (published in March 2022)
Appleby J, et al. (2022) Topic report: Youth violence intervention programme for vulnerable young people attending emergency departments in London: a rapid evaluation (published as Web Report November 2022)
Greenhalgh, T., Knight, M., Inada-Kin, M., Fulop, NJ., Leach, J., Vindrola-Padros, C.. (2021) Remote Management of covid-19 using home pulse oximetry and virtual ward support. BMJ (published in March 2021)
Vindrola-Padros C, et al. (2021) The implementation of remote home monitoring models during the COVID-19 pandemic in England. Lancet eClinicalMedicine (published April 2021)
Vindrola-Padros C, et al. (2021) Remote home monitoring (virtual wards) for confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients: a rapid systematic review. eClinicalMedicine (published July 2021)
Cowan, K., Fulop, N.J., Harshfield, A., Ng, P.L., Ntouva, A., Sidhu, M., Sussex, J., Tomini, S.M. & Walton, H. (2021) Rapid prioritisation of topics for rapid evaluation: the case of innovations in adult social care and social work. Health Research Policy and Systems (Link)
Vindrola-Padros, C, et al. (2020) The Implementation of Improvement Interventions for ‘Low Performing’ and ‘High Performing’ Organisations in Health, Education and Local Government: A Phased Literature Review. International Journal of Health Policy and Management (published November 2020)
Fulop, N, et. al. (2020) Rapid Evaluation of the Special Measures for Quality and Challenged Provider Regimes: A Mixed-Methods Study, Health Services and Delivery Research (published as Web report May 2020).

Blogposts and other outputs

Appleby, J – Evaluating a hospital-based youth violence intervention programme. Nuffield Trust blog
Vindrola Padros C – What is rapid research and why is it relevant for health care? Nuffield Trust blog
Ledger J and Sherlaw-Johnson C - Evaluating, fast and slow: reflections from the Rapid Evaluation Conference. Nuffield Trust blog
Vindrola-Padros C, Fulop N and Greenhalgh T – Virtual wards: caring for COVID-19 patients at home could save lives. The Conversation article and Nuffield Trust blog
Walton H – Rapidly prioritising innovations in adult social care for evaluation: Q&A with Dr Holly Walton. Nuffield Trust blog
Fulop N and Sherlaw-Johnson C – Special measures for quality: Q&A on impact of improvement interventions in NHS trusts. Nuffield Trust blog
Ramsay A – Pre-hospital triage for potential stroke patients: A Q&A with Angus Ramsay
Walton H and Fulop N – Virtual wards and Covid-19: An explainer. Nuffield Trust explainer
Reed S, Crellin N. Patient-initiated follow-up: does it work, why it matters, and can it help the NHS recover? Nuffield Trust, 2022.
Reed, S and Crellin, N. Evidence review of patient-initiated follow-up (PIFU) by Sarah Reed & Nadia Crellin (published August 2022)
Pulse oximetry in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic by Dr Manbinder Sidhu and Prof Naomi Fulop. (published March 2022)
Sarah Reed presented at the NHS Confed roundtable “Harnessing the value of PIFU in an Evolving Healthcare System” with a presentation titled: “PIFU: emerging findings from a rapid evaluation” (December 2022).
Sarah Reed and Nadia Crellin. Patient-initiated follow-up: Findings from the first phase of a mixed methods evaluation. Presentation to the Northwest Outpatients Pathway Evaluation Task & Finish Group, December 2022
Theo Georghiou and Nadia Crellin. Patient-initiated follow-up: Findings from the first phase of a mixed methods evaluation. PIFU regional leads meeting, November 2022.
Chris Sherlaw-Johnson and Sarah Reed. PIFU: Emerging findings and learning. National PIFU webinar organised by NHS England, September 2022.
Prof Naomi Fulop and Chris Sherlaw-Johnson presented Special Measures for Quality and Challenged Providers: Evaluation of the Impact of Improvement Interventions in NHS Trusts to NHSE&I, November 2019.
Prof Naomi Fulop and Chris Sherlaw-Johnson presented Special Measures for Quality and Challenged Providers: Evaluation of the Impact of Improvement Interventions in NHS Trusts to the Joint Strategic Oversight Group, January 2020.

Slide sets and recordings

A slide set of findings from phase 1 of a mixed-methods evaluation of implementing artificial intelligence in chest diagnostics for lung disease, December 2024
A slide set of findings from phase 1 of a mixed methods evaluation for Patient-initiated follow-up, December 2022.
Dr Angus Ramsay led a webinar recording of Prehospital video triage for stroke – breaking findings and future (LINK), October 2022.
Dr Holly Walton presented at a webinar on What needs to happen if remote monitoring is to truly enhance patient outcomes and system efficiencies? (LINK), October 2022.
A slide set of findings from three independent evaluations of the NHS COVID Oximetry @home programme completed by RSET and BRACE, the Improvement Analytics Unit (Health Foundation), and Imperial College London, November 2021.
A slide set of findings from phase 1 of Rapid evaluation of remote home monitoring models during COVID-19 pandemic in England completed by RSET and BRACE, October 2020.

Conference papers and posters

RSET team @ RCR Global AI conference 2025: Artificial Intelligence for diagnostics in radiology poster
RSET team @ RCR Global AI conference 2025: Implementing AI in chest diagnostics for lung disease poster
Dr Holly Walton. Peer supported adult social care in prisons in England and Wales. HSR UK 2024 Conference.
Cyril Lobont. Staff experience of patient-initiated follow-up (PIFU): a rapid scoping review and qualitative study. HSR UK 2024 Conference.
Theo Georghiou, Stuti Bagri and Chris Sherlaw-Johnson. The impact of patient-initiated follow-up (PIFU) on subsequent hospital activity. HSR UK 2024 Conference.
Rachel Hutchings. Patient experience of patient-initiated follow-up (PIFU): a rapid scoping review and qualitative study. HSR UK 2024 Conference.
Dr Angus Ramsay. Prehospital Triage findings. HSR UK 2022 conference.
Dr Holly Walton. Combining multiple approaches in the evaluation of healthcare services: lessons learned from COVID-19 remote monitoring services. HSR UK 2022 Conference.
Dr Angus Ramsay. Pre-hospital Triage findings. UK Stroke Forum 2022 conference.
Dr Angus Ramsay. Findings from Pre-hospital triage workshop with NHS England and national pilot leads. UK Stroke Forum 2022 conference.
Dr Angus Ramsay. Presentation of findings from Prehospital Triage. Stroke Reperfusion UK 2022 conference.
Dr Angus Ramsay (RSET and BRACE joint workshop). Plenary session: How is evaluation helping inform the recovery? evaluation approaches and policy implications. Rapid Evaluation 2022 conference.
Dr Angus Ramsay. Prehospital video triage for suspected stroke: lessons from a rapid, mixed-method evaluation of services implemented in two regions of the National Health Service in England poster. European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC) 2022.
Dr Holly Walton, Chris Sherlaw-Johnson and Dr Nadia Crellin. Understanding the impact of COVID Oximetry @home programme among COVID-19 patients in England. HSR UK 2021 conference.
Prof Naomi Fulop, Prof Steve Morris and Prof Cecilia Vindrola. Covid Virtual Ward (phase 1) study. Rapid Evaluation 2021 conference.
Prof Naomi Fulop and Chris Sherlaw-Johnson. Special measures for quality and challenged providers: the study protocol for evaluating the impact of improvement interventions in NHS Trusts. Leaders in Healthcare 2020 conference.
Prof Naomi Fulop, Dr Jean Ledger and Chris Sherlaw-Johnson. Addressing failure and turnaround in health care organisations: a review of current approaches and experiences across NHS providers. HSR UK 2020 conference
Dr Holly Walton. Rapid prioritisation of adult social care innovations for evaluation: Reflections and considerations. HSR UK 2020 conference.
Prof Steve Morris. How can health economic evaluation be undertaken rapidly. Rapid Evaluation 2020 conference.
Prof Cecilia Vindrola-Padros. Rapid qualitative evaluation to inform decision making. Rapid Evaluation 2020 conference.
Chris Sherlaw-Johnson and Dr Jean Ledger. Evaluations of national programmes using mixed methods. Rapid Evaluation 2020 conference.
Naomi Fulop and Chris Sherlaw-Johnson. Emerging findings from the SMQ project at the NHSI/E Intensive Support conference, February 2020.
Prof Cecilia Vindrola and Dr Jean Ledger. Rapid ethnography and organisational case studies. Rapid Evaluation 2019 conference.

Pre-prints

Crellin, N, et al. (2022) Examining disparities relating to service reach, patient access and engagement with COVID-19 remote home monitoring services in England: a mixed methods evaluation. (Pre-print).
Morris, J. Georghiou, T., Appleby, J (2021). Changes in English NHS outpatient activity during the early Covid-19 period. (Pre-print)