Newcastle University

Introduction

My research background is in healthcare quality improvement using both clinical audit and comparative quality indicators.

My PhD, which was funded by the Medical Research Council focussed on shared decision making (SDM). The PhD identified what decisions women made during pregnancy and labour and how they could best be supported in the decision making process.

A recent secondment opportunity was as the Shared Decision Making Programme Lead for the Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Hospitals Trust. This role was concerned with implementing Shared Decision Making across the organisation, providing a resource for both patients and staff.

Although the majority of my recent work has used a qualitative approach, I am also experienced quantitative researcher.

Qualifications

2011 - PhD, University of Newcastle

2000 - MSc Health Sciences (Public Health ), University of Newcastle

1990 - BA(Hons) University of Liverpool

Previous Positions

SDM Programme Lead  - Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Hospitals Trust

MRC Research Fellow - Decision making in pregnancy - the exaple of pain relief in labour

UK Quality Indicator Project (QIP) co-ordinator (Dept of Population and Health Sciences)

Research Interests

Decision making in health care, in areas where the decision and the action are separated by time or place. I have an interest in how patients make decisions, how their values affect their choices and what we can do to support them in the decision making process.

I am also interested in the impact of context on decision making in healthcare. The setting, the urgency, the involvement of others, all play an important role in the decision made which is not yet fully understood.

I am interested in how we can use comparative quality indicators to assess the quality of acute care 

Current Work

NIHR Health Technology Assessment DEVELOP UK A study of donor ex-vivo lung perfusion in UK Lung Transplantation  - Research Associate

Pre-Conception Care for Diabetic Women.

Esteem Indicators

Peer Reviewer - Journal Articles: British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Patient Education and Couselling, Archives of Disease in Childhood.

Projects

• Centre for Shared Decision Making
  Project Leader(s): Richard Thomson; Joanne Lally
• Decision Support for Women Choosing Mode of Delivery after a Previous Caesarean Section: A Developmental Study
  Project Leader(s): Ms A Farnworth, Dr MJ Murtagh, Professor SC Robson
• Women’s decision making regarding pain relief in labour
  Project Leader(s): Mrs Joanne Lally, Prof Richard Thomson, Dr Madeleine Murtagh, Dr Sheila Macphail (R.V.I.)

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 in the quality of care module.

• Lally J, Tullo E. Engaging Older People in Decisions about their Healthcare: The Case for Shared Decision Making. Reviews in Clinical Gerontology 2012, 22(2). In Press.
• Lally JE. Nothing about me without me. Nursing Times 2011, 107(34), 14-16.
• Lally JE, Thomson RG, Exley C, Macphail S. Shared decision making about pain management in labour: expectations and reality. Archives of Disease Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal 2010, 95((suppl 1)), Fa80.
• Lally JE, Murtagh MJ, Macphail S, Thomson RG. 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. In: Society for Social Medicine 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting. 2008, Southampton, UK: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health: BMJ Group.
• 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 RG, MacPhail S. Women's decision making regarding pain relief in labour.. In: 3rd International Shared Decision Making Conference. 2005, Ottawa, Canada: University of Ottawa.
• Lally J, Murtagh M, Thomson RG, MacPhail S. Women’s decision making about pain in labour.. In: UK Public Health Forum.. 2005, Gateshead.
• Thomson R, 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 1 i51-i56.
• Fischbacher CM, Lally JE. Improving the quality of communicable disease control: the example of meningococcal disease. Communicable Disease and Public Health 2001, 4(4), 268-272.
• Thomson RG, Lally J. Performance management at the crossroads in the NHS: Don't go into the red. Quality in Health Care 2000, 9(4), 201-202.
• Lally, J.E. & Thomson, R.G. Is indicator use for quality improvement and performance measurement compatible?. In: H. Davies, M. Tavakoli, M. Malek & A.R, ed. Managing quality: strategic issues in Health care management.. Ashgate publishing Ltd, 1999, pp. 199-213.