Julie Peconi - Research Officer

I joined the Mid and West section of the AWARD team as a Research Officer in January 2005 and am based in Swansea. My research interests lie in emergency/immediate care, telephone advice and access to healthcare. Before joining AWARD, I was the Researcher on the NHS Direct Wales Evaluation Project, a 3 year study funded by Swansea NHS Trust on behalf of the Welsh Assembly Government. I have also been involved in the Emergency/Immediate Care Scoping Study for WAG. Recently I enrolled in a part-time PhD looking at access to telephone advice by disadvantaged groups. This includes both a quantitative component, looking at patterns of usage to NHS Direct Wales by different community groups, and a qualitative component, looking at facilitators and barriers to access.

Relevant Publications
Porter A, Peconi J, Evans A, Snooks H, Lloyd K, Russell I. 'Equity and service innovation: the implementation of a bibliotherapy scheme in Wales.' Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 2008 April Vol 13 Supplement 2 pp26-31.

Peconi J, Snooks H, Edwards A. ‘Thematic Research network for emergency and UnScheduled Treatment (TRUST): scoping the potential’. BMC Emergency Medicine 2008 Jan 30;8:2.

Snooks HA, Williams AM, Griffiths LJ, Peconi J, Rance J, Snelgrove S, Sarangi S, Wainwright P, Cheung WY.Real nursing? The development of telenursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 2008 Mar;61(6):631-40.

Peconi J, Snooks H. On behalf of TRUST: Thematic Research network for emergency and UnScheduled Treatment. Supporting research to enable the provision of 'The right care to the right people at the right time' Clinical Discovery June - July 2007, volume 2 issue 3.

Peconi J, Snooks H. On behalf of TRUST: Thematic Research network for emergency and UnScheduled Treatment. Supporting research to enable the provision of 'The right care to the right people at the right time'
Clinical Discovery June - July 2007.

Snooks H, Peconi J, Porter A. An Overview of the Published Evidence Concerning the Effectiveness of Services Delivered Jointly by Health and Social Care Providers. A report to the Welsh Assembly Government. November 2005.

Snooks H, Chamberlain D, Cooke M, Dale J, Davies C, Edwards A, Jones S, Lyons, R, Moncur S, Peconi J, Richmond R, Vetter N. Emergency/Immediate Care Thematic Research Network in Wales: scoping the potential. Abstract displayed at the 999 EMS Research Forum 2005, Harrogate.

Snooks H, Edwards A, Lyons R, Peconi J, Chamberlain D, Vetter N. Emergency/Immediate Care Thematic Research Network. A Scoping Study Report for the Welsh Assembly Government. March-April 2005.

Snooks, H, Cheung WY, Munro J, Peconi J, Rance J. An evaluation of the appropriateness of advice and health care contacts made following calls to NHS Direct Wales. Poster displayed at HTAi Krakow, One HTAi –yesterday, today & tomorrow, 2004. A variation of this poster has also been displayed at HTAi Rome 2005.

Snooks H, Cheung WY, Peconi J et al. Compliance and Communication: Gaps between what NHS Direct Nurses record, what callers hear and what they do. Paper presented orally at RCGP conference, 2004. This poster was also displayed at SSM 2005 in Glasgow.

Snooks H, Cheung WY, Peconi J et al. An evaluation of the appropriateness of advice and health care contacts made following calls to NHS Direct Wales. Paper presented orally at RCGP conference, 2004.

Research Grants won
2007 Co-applicant: Identifying service improvements for primary care provision: evaluating patient and carer experiences of using 'out-of-hours' services. Wales Office of R&D (£83,359)

2006 Co-applicant: Systematic review of evidence concerning the effectiveness of bibliotherapy. Wales Office of R&D (£22,000)

2005 Co-applicant: Thematic Research Network for emergency and UnScheduled Treatment infrastructure funding. Wales Office of R&D (£239,000)

2006 Co-applicant: A review of the literature concerning models and effectiveness of bibliotherapy to support the development and evaluation of Book Prescription Wales: study proposal (£21,270)

2005 Co-applicant: Emergency Unplanned Care Thematic Research Network. Welsh Assembly Government (£110,967 over 3 years)