NIHR Advanced Fellowship
Dr Carl Marincowitz has been awarded an NIHR Advanced Fellowship to investigate whether regional variation in hospitalisations of care home residents is due to differences in provision of specialist enhanced care services.
's fellowship is funded for 3 years (September 2024-2027) and he is completing this alongside being an A&E consultant. is the study manager and recently completed an NIHR School for Social Care Research funded PhD. The fellowship will provide Carl with additional training in research methods and leadership. The study aims to assess whether differences in implementation of specialist enhanced services for care homes across England has led to variation in A&E attendances and inpatient admissions. It a 3-part mixed methods study analysing routine data to estimate regional variation in hospitalisation rates followed by in-depth case studies. If you would like to find out more, please contact Carl at c.marincowitz@sheffield.ac.uk or Katie at k.zwerger@sheffield.ac.uk .