All Stories

  1. Reforming primary palliative care: a call to arms

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, December 2023, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Mr Ben Bowers

  2. The financial costs of anticipatory prescribing: A retrospective observational study of prescribed, administered and wasted medications using community clinical records

    Article • Palliative Medicine, October 2023, SAGE Publications

    Mr Ben Bowers

  3. Traveller end of life care experiences and needs: thematic analysis

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, July 2023, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  4. Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care: systematic review and narrative synthesis of the evidence since 2017

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, May 2023, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  5. Developing community and primary care nursing research

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, February 2023, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  6. Managing medication at the end of life: supporting family carers

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, January 2023, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  7. Editorial: Developing research potential in the primary and community-nursing workforce: the impact of a community of practice

    Article • Primary Health Care Research & Development, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Mr Ben Bowers

  8. Simultaneously reassuring and unsettling: a longitudinal qualitative study of community anticipatory medication prescribing for older patients

    Article • Age and Ageing, December 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mr Ben Bowers

  9. End of life care in UK care homes - controlled drugs: systematic review and narrative synthesis

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, June 2022, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  10. Community-based anticipatory prescribing during COVID-19: a qualitative study

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, June 2022, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  11. Building a community nursing research community of practice

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, February 2022, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  12. Unwelcome memento mori or best clinical practice? Community end of life anticipatory medication prescribing practice: A mixed methods observational study

    Article • Palliative Medicine, September 2021, SAGE Publications

    Mr Ben Bowers

  13. The known unknowns of assisted hydration at the end of life

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, June 2021, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  14. What's in a name?

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, April 2021, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  15. Unwelcome memento mori or best clinical practice? Community end-of-life anticipatory medication prescribing practice: a mixed methods observational study

    Article • March 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Mr Ben Bowers

  16. Anticipatory syringe pumps: benefits and risks

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, January 2021, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  17. End-of-life care during COVID-19: opportunities and challenges for community nursing

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, January 2021, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  18. GPs’ decisions about prescribing end-of-life anticipatory medications: a qualitative study

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, September 2020, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Mr Ben Bowers

  19. Cytosponge-trefoil factor 3 versus usual care to identify Barrett's oesophagus in a primary care setting: a multicentre, pragmatic, randomised controlled trial

    Article • The Lancet, August 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Ben Bowers, Professor Peter Sasieni

  20. Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care in the UK and Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic: online survey

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, June 2020, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  21. Reassessing advance care planning in the light of covid-19

    Article • BMJ, May 2020, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  22. Patient and public involvement in general practice research

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, April 2020, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Mr Ben Bowers

  23. Administration of end-of-life drugs by family caregivers during covid-19 pandemic

    Article • BMJ, April 2020, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  24. Getting anticipatory prescribing right in end-of-life care

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, June 2019, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  25. A chance to improve end-of-life care

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, June 2019, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  26. Anticipatory syringe drivers: a step too far

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, June 2019, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  27. Commentary: Unlocking intuition and expertise: using interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore clinical decision making

    Article • Journal of Research in Nursing, March 2019, SAGE Publications

    Mr Ben Bowers

  28. Anticipatory prescribing of injectable medications for adults at the end of life in the community: A systematic literature review and narrative synthesis

    Article • Palliative Medicine, December 2018, SAGE Publications

    Mr Ben Bowers

  29. Evidence-based practice in community nursing

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, July 2018, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  30. A qualitative study of community nurses’ decision-making around the anticipatory prescribing of end-of-life medications

    Article • Journal of Advanced Nursing, May 2017, Wiley

    Mr Ben Bowers

  31. Care in the last days of life

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, April 2016, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  32. Shaping future delivery of care: district nurses seizing the day!

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, June 2015, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  33. Spinal cord compression

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, April 2015, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  34. Quality indicators in community care

    Article • Primary Health Care, February 2014, RCNi

    Mr Ben Bowers

  35. Measuring safe staff levels in the community: the ‘DominiC’ workforce management tool

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, February 2014, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  36. Measuring the clinical effectiveness of district nurses

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, July 2013, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  37. The Department of Health's model for district nursing: supporting practice

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, March 2013, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  38. Measuring and demonstrating district nursing's clinical effectiveness

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, June 2012, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  39. Using referral guidelines to support best care outcomes for patients

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, March 2012, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  40. The role of community nurses in providing a seamless patient pathway

    Article • British Journal of Nursing, September 2009, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  41. Student life-man about the house

    Article • Nursing Standard, August 2009, RCNi

    Mr Ben Bowers

  42. Opportunity knocks

    Article • Nursing Standard, May 2009, RCNi

    Mr Ben Bowers

  43. Providing effective support for patients facing disfiguring surgery

    Article • British Journal of Nursing, January 2008, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  44. The value of a staff nurse forum in meeting the local needs of a district nursing service

    Article • Primary Health Care, October 2007, RCNi

    Mr Ben Bowers

  45. Tracheostomy: facilitating successful discharge from hospital to home

    Article • British Journal of Nursing, April 2007, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  46. Evaluating the evidence for administering phosphate enemas

    Article • British Journal of Nursing, April 2006, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  47. Opportunity knocks

    Article • Nursing Standard, March 2003, RCNi

    Mr Ben Bowers