Ms Rachel Winder

About me:

Rachel Winder is a qualified general nurse, having trained at The Middlesex Hospital in London in 1983 and specialising in neuro-intensive care nursing. After completing a BSc Hons in psychology, she moved into research in 2000 and has worked as a researcher at The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Dublin), at King's College, London and later joined the Department of Primary Care and General Practice at (now) the University of Exeter Medical School). She has been involved in both qualitative and quantitative research projects concerning the health, social services and welfare needs of older people, pre-diabetes and exploring access to out-of-hours care for patients with cancer and their carers. More recently she worked on two multi-centre depression trials: TREAD – a randomised controlled trial of physical activity as a treatment of depression and CoBalT, a randomised controlled trial of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy for treatment resistant depression in primary care. From 2011 to 2014, Rachel worked with Professor David Melzer’s epidemiology/primary care team (University of Exeter Medical School), on an Age UK-funded project exploring the health care needs of the older population and investigating a wide range of health care issues in old age and in centenarians using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD). Later she worked as a primary care qualitative research fellow on CADENCE Study, exploring the feasibility of and piloting an RCT to establish methods for assessing the acceptability, and clinical and cost-effectiveness of Enhanced Psychological Care in cardiac rehabilitation services. She worked on the process evaluation for a multi-centred asthma RCT (ARRISA-UK: At-Risk Registers Integrated into primary care to Stop Asthma crises in the UK). She a Research Fellow and project manager for the Di-Facto study (Facilitating access to online NHS primary care services) and his currently working on two cancer studies; CoPECaD (Early Detection of Cancer in Community Pharmacies) and SPOCC (Spotting Cancer among Comorbidities). She also maintains her role (since 2016) within a general practice as research facilitator.

Interests:

Health services research, cancer, patient access to online primary care services, community pharmacy, asthma, mental health, older people, mixed methods, process evaluation, pre-diabetes, cardiac rehabilitation