Qualifications

I am a General Practitioner and researcher with a particular interest in primary care mental health and care of individuals with complex needs. My PhD involved the development and evaluation of shared care for long-term mental illness utilising a cluster randomised controlled trial and a Realistic evaluation-based process evaluation. I have significant experience of service development, management, policy development and teaching.

I continue to work as a GP at Mount Gould Primary Care Centre and a GP with special interest in mental health, for the Icebreak team at The Zone.

2009 GP with Special Interest in Mental Health accreditation

2004 PhD, University of London, Health Services Research

1996 Masters in Public Health (MPH), University of Birmingham

1992-1993 MRCGP, Oxford (Banbury) Vocational Training Scheme

1985-1988 M.B. B.Ch. (Cambridge), The Royal London Hospital Medical College,

1982-1985 B.A. (Hons) Medical Sciences Degree (2:1), Queens' College, Cambridge University

I have been involved in projects related to access, commissioning, inter-professional workng and implementation of evidence-based practice.I have worked as a generalist researcher and become experienced with a range of quantiative and qualitative methodologies relevant to health services research, including:

Randomised controlled trials Studies involving qualitative interviews Mixed methods analysis Conversation analysis

Sheaff WR, Halliday J, Byng R, Øvretveit J, Exworthy M, Peckham S & Asthana S 2017 'Bridging the discursive gap between lay and medical discourse in care coordination' Sociology of Health and Illness 39, (6) Thompson TP, Greaves CJ, Ayres R, Aveyard P, Warren FC, Byng R, Taylor RS, Campbell JL, Ussher M & Green C 2016 'An Exploratory Analysis of the Smoking and Physical Activity Outcomes From a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an Exercise Assisted Reduction to Stop Smoking Intervention in Disadvantaged Groups' NICOTINE & TOBACCO RESEARCH 18, (3) 289-297 Author Site , DOI PEARL Kuyken W, Warren FC, Taylor RS, Whalley B, Crane C, Bondolfi G, Hayes R, Huijbers M, Ma H & Schweizer S 2016 'Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Prevention of Depressive Relapse An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis From Randomized Trials' JAMA PSYCHIATRY 73, (6) 565-574 Author Site , DOI PEARL Thompson TP, Greaves CJ, Ayres R, Aveyard P, Warren FC, Byng R, Taylor RS, Campbell JL, Ussher M & Michie S 2016 'Factors associated with study attrition in a pilot randomised controlled trial to explore the role of exercise-assisted reduction to stop (EARS) smoking in disadvantaged groups' TRIALS 17, Author Site , DOI Pinkney J, Rance S, Benger J, Brant H, Joel-Edgar S, Swancutt D, Westlake D, Pearson M, Thomas D & Holme I 2016 'How can frontline expertise and new models of care best contribute to safely reducing avoidable acute admissions? A mixed-methods study of four acute hospitals' Health Services and Delivery Research 4, (3) 1-202 , DOI PEARL Goodwin VA, Paudyal P, Perry MG, Day N, Hawton A, Gericke C, Ukoumunne OC & Byng R 2016 'Implementing a patient-initiated review system for people with rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective, comparative service evaluation' JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE 22, (3) 439-445 Author Site , DOI PEARL Georgiadis A, Byng R, Coomber R & Quinn C 2016 'The social, relational and mental health characteristics of justice-involved men in the south-west England' JOURNAL OF FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY & PSYCHOLOGY 27, (6) 835-852 Author Site , DOI Husk K, Blockley K, Lovell R, Bethel A, Bloomfield D, Warber S, Pearson M, Lang I, Byng R & Garside R 2016 'What approaches to social prescribing work, for whom, and in what circumstances? A protocol for a realist review' Systematic reviews 5, , DOI PEARL