Welcome to the next edition of our “Spotlight on a Researcher” series. If you have missed our previous editions you can find these here. This week I have been chatting to Professor Emma France about how she got involved with NESSIE. Emma is based within the Centre for Healthcare and Community Research (CHeCR) at the […]

We are delighted to bring you some “hot off the press” information on one of our current reviews. This year some of the NESSIE team have been working on a systematic review looking at the effectiveness of exercise for preventing further vascular disease. We were also interested in the impact of exercise on quality of […]

So, the blog baton (if that is a thing) has been passed to me by Peter Matthews.  In his blog, which was the first “spotlight on researcher” posts, Peter said it was the scariest blog he had ever written.  In my case, this is the FIRST blog that I have ever written…..so I hope you […]

In March 2024 we posted a blog about one of our new projects at NESSIE – a systematic review looking at the use of exercise for people with existing vascular disease.  We have been making good progress with the review so wanted to provide an update on the work we are doing. When conducting a […]

At NESSIE we have been busy preparing for new reviews we will work on over the next year. In this blog we are putting the spotlight on one of these in conjunction with a project lead, Professor Gillian Mead from the University of Edinburgh and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. This project is a systematic review, […]

  We use systematic reviews to summarise information about a particular topic. They make it easier for us to know how much we can trust this information and to allow us make the best decisions to help the people we care for. Our brains are wired in a way to allow us to make quick […]