Research project

REACH (Stakeholder Workshop)

Project overview

This one-day workshop will bring together regulators, researchers and policymakers to explore the role of Professional Standards Authority (PSA) Accredited Register (AR) and other regulated health and care professions in public health and improvement of support for patients’ healthy lifestyles and behaviours.

Workshop objectives
•Understand the perspectives of different groups, including regulators, policy-makers, health professions and researchers on improving support for healthy lifestyles.
•Determine joint priorities to inform regulation, research, policy and training.
•Provide feedback into specific next steps, including for a UoS project to develop CPD training package for AR practitioners.
•Relationship building between health profession regulators (including voluntary ARs and regulated health professions), the PSA, academics and policy makers.

This workshop is supported by the PSA and British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) and is funded at the UoS by the Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account.

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Flis Bishop

Professor of Health Psychology

Research interests

  • Placebo effects and context effects in healthcare
  • Complementary and integrative medicine utilisation
  • Treatment decision-making and adherence
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Research outputs