Mrs Joanne Lally
MRC Research Fellow
- Email: j.e.lally@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 5643
- Address: Institute of Health and Society
Newcastle University
William Leech Building
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4HH
In her current position as Research Fellow within the Institute of Health and society, Joanne is working with pregnant women and local obstetricans, midwives and anaesthetists to examine current decision-making processes in regarding pain reief in labour. This work will form the basis of her PhD which she is undertaking on a part-time basis
Research Interests
Quality in Health Care, including using comparative quality indicators to assess acute care.
Decision making in health care, in areas where the decision and the action are separated by time or place
Current Work
Assessing what decisions are made regarding pain relif in labour, with a view to developing a decision tool to assist professionals and women to make decisions during labour
Selected Publications
- Lally J; Murtagh M; Macphail S; Thomson R. More in hope than expectation: A systematic review of women's expectations and experience of pain relief in labour. BMC Medicine 2008, 6(7), 10.
- Lally J; Murtagh M; Thomson R; MacPhail S. Women's decision-making about pain relief in labour. Society for Social Medicine 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting 2008. Southampton, UK: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health: BMJ Group, 62, Suppl.1, A11-A11.
- Burges Watson D; Murtagh MJ; Lally JE; Thomson RG; McPhail S. Flexible therapeutic landscapes of labour and the place of pain relief. Health and Place 2007, 13(4), 865-876.
- Lally, J, Murtagh, M, Thomson R. Women's decision making regarding pain relief in labour. International Shared Decision Making Conference, Ottawa, 14-16 June, 2005. 2005.
- Lally, J, Murtagh, M, Thopmson, R, McPhaill, S. Women’s decision making about pain in labour. UK Public Health Forum, Gateshead, 5-7 April 2005. 2005.
- Thomson RG,Taber S, Lally, J, Kazandjian V. UK Quality Indicator Project (UK QIP) and the UK independent health care sector: a new development. International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2004, 16(Suppl 1), i51-i56.
Projects
- Decision Support for Women Choosing Mode of Delivery after a Previous Caesarean Section: A Developmental Study
Project Leaders: Ms A Farnworth, Dr MJ Murtagh, Professor SC Robson - Women’s decision making regarding pain relief in labour
Project Leaders: Mrs Joanne Lally, Prof Richard Thomson, Dr Madeleine Murtagh, Dr Sheila Macphail (R.V.I.)
Esteem Indicators
Peer Reviewer - Journal Articles: British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Funding
MRC Special Training Fellowship - Health of the Public/ Health services Research
Qualifications
2000 - MSc Health Sciences (Public Health ), University of Newcastle
1990 - BA(Hons) University of Liverpool
Previous Positions
UK Quality Indicator Project (QIP) co-ordinator (Dept of Population and Health Sciences)
Undergraduate Teaching
Public Health Tutor and Rotation co-ordinator for 3rd year MBBS students on the EJR Public Health.
Tutor on 'Medicine in the Community' course for Stage 1 and 2, MBBS students
Postgraduate Teaching
Delivered sessions on the MSc in Health Sciences in the IHS.
