Rural Workplace Advanced Practice Supervision Hub

• CASP - Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (casp-uk.net) - Critical appraisal skills training, workshops and tools 
• Quality Improvement Zone | Turas | Learn (nhs.scot) - Learning and resource site quality improvement team which provides information and resources  to support people with experience with QI methodology
• The Knowledge Network Scotland - The Knowledge Network: Scotland's source of knowledge for health and care
• ihub | Healthcare Improvement Scotland - Home - The Improvement Hub (ihub) is part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland and was established in April 2016 to support those delivering health and social care across Scotland to redesign and continuously improve services to ensure they meet the changing needs of people in Scotland.
• Research Ethics | NHS Research Scotland | NHS Research Scotland - NHS Research Scotland promotes and supports excellence in clinical and translational research in Scotland so that patients can benefit from new and better treatments.
• Using and doing research: a novice's guide | Subject Guide | Royal College of Nursing (rcn.org.uk) - This guide has been developed by members of the RCN Research Society for those new to or returning to research. It focuses on using and doing research. Use this guide to find information resources including books, journal articles and reports.
• Project Case Studies - Sustaining remote and rural healthcare service (uhi.ac.uk) - UHI research led by staff from the Division of Rural Health and Wellbeing explores the challenges at the heart of remote and rural healthcare and how they can be overcome.
• Rural Research | Turas | Learn (nhs.scot) - Currently being updated
• Rediscover the Joy of General Practice – Scottish Rural Medicine Collaborative - Rediscover the Joy of General Practice is a collaborative project between 7 Scottish Health Boards
• The need for a complex systems approach in rural health research | BMJ Open
• Tools, frameworks and resources to guide global action on strengthening rural health systems: a mapping review - PMC (nih.gov)
• Community participation for rural health: a review of challenges - Kenny - 2015 - Health Expectations - Wiley Online Library
• Is remote health different to rural health? | Rural and Remote Health (informit.org)
• Learning in context: Education for remote rural health care | Rural and Remote Health (informit.org)
• IJERPH | Free Full-Text | Social Determinants of Rural Health Workforce Retention: A Scoping Review (mdpi.com)
• Rethinking Rural Health Ethics | SpringerLink
• Different perspectives on the key challenges facing rural health: The challenges of power and knowledge - Malatzky - 2018 - Australian Journal of Rural Health - Wiley Online Library
• Building research experience: Impact of a novice researcher development program for rural health workers - Schmidt - 2019 - Australian Journal of Rural Health - Wiley Online Library
• Rural Population Health and Aging: Toward a Multilevel and Multidimensional Research Agenda for the 2020s | AJPH | Vol. 110 Issue 9 (aphapublications.org)
• Barriers to rural health care from the provider perspective | Rural and Remote Health (informit.org)

Latest Publications

• King, R., Carolan, C. and Robertson, S. (2023) "COVID-19: a catalyst for change in remote and rural advanced clinical practice – A qualitative study", Journal of Integrated Care, https://doi.org/10.1108/JICA-03-2023-0014 
• Beattie M, Carolan C, Macaden L, MacIver A, Dingwall L, MacGilleeathain R, Schoultz M (2022) Care Home Workers Experiences of Stress and Coping During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study.  Nursing Open.  https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.1335  
• Macaden, L.; Broadfoot, K.; Carolan, C.Muirhead, K.; Neylon, S.; Keen, J. (2022) Last Aid Training Online: Participants’ and Facilitators’ Perceptions from a Mixed-Methods Study in Rural Scotland. Healthcare 10, 918 https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10050918