Phillip Whitehead

Contact

• workRoom B108 Medical School
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 823 1458
• phillip.j.whitehead@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Phillip Whitehead achieved his undergraduate degree in Health and Human Sciences from The University of Durham in 1999. He later studied Occupational Therapy at the University of Derby and graduated in 2004. He has been a qualified occupational therapist for six years, and worked for five years in various teams for adult community services at Nottingham City Council. He came to work as a research associate on the HOVIS study at the University of Nottingham in January 2010.

Expertise Summary

Keywords:

Occupational therapy research, randomised control trials, pre-discharge occupational therapy home visits

Research Summary

Phillip Whitehead is currently working on the Home Visits after Stroke (HOVIS) study, a feasibility randomised controlled trial taking place on the Stroke Rehabilitation Unit in Derby. Eligible… read more

Recent Publications

• WHITEHEAD, P., DRUMMOND, A. and FELLOWS, K, 2011. Research governance and bureaucracy for multisite studies: implications for occupational therapy research British Journal of Occupational Therapy. 74(7), 355-358
• WHITEHEAD P, FELLOWS K, SPRIGG N AND DRUMMOND AER, 2010. Research governance- there is nothing streamlined about the system. At: BMJ 2010;341;c5633

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• Health Professions Council - Registered Occupational Therapist
• The British Association of Occupational Therapists
• College of Occupational Therapists, Specialist Section for Neurological Practice
• College of Occupational Therapists, Specialist Section for Older People
• Society for Research in Rehabilitation

Current Research

Phillip Whitehead is currently working on the Home Visits after Stroke (HOVIS) study, a feasibility randomised controlled trial taking place on the Stroke Rehabilitation Unit in Derby. Eligible patients are randomised to receive either a pre-discharge home visit with an occupational therapist or a pre-discharge hospital interview with an occupation therapist.

Phillip completes the follow up visits with the study participants at one week and then one month, after they have been discharged from hospital. The HOVIS study aims to investigate whether pre-discharge home visits have an effect on independence, mobility, mood and carer strain, post-discharge.

Concurrently there is qualitative work being carried out investigating national practice of pre-discharge home visits for patients with a stroke. This consists of:

• Interviews with experts
• Interviews with senior occupational therapists
• A national survey of home visiting practice for patients with a stroke

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Phillip is also studying part-time for his MPhil, which intersects with the HOVIS study. His MPhil is entitled "What are the characteristics of patients with a stroke who are deemed to need a home visit?"

Read more about the HOVIS study

• WHITEHEAD, P., DRUMMOND, A. and FELLOWS, K, 2011. Research governance and bureaucracy for multisite studies: implications for occupational therapy research British Journal of Occupational Therapy. 74(7), 355-358
• WHITEHEAD P, FELLOWS K, SPRIGG N AND DRUMMOND AER, 2010. Research governance- there is nothing streamlined about the system. At: BMJ 2010;341;c5633