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The PSSRU is one of the leading social care research groups, not just in the UK but internationally.

Latest Journal Articles

Understanding how users of home-based aged care services with cognitive impairment rate their social care related quality of life (2025)

Caiels J
New Ways of Working to Manage and Improve Quality in Integrated Care Systems in England (2025)

Caiels J
Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional study (2025)

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Latest Research

Retention and Sustainability of Social Care Workforce (RESSCW)
Quality, Safety and Outcomes of Health and Social Care (QSO)
Adult Social Care Research Unit (ASCRU)
Unit Costs of Health and Social Care programme (2022 – 2027)

Sarah Markham, Della Ogunleye, Adriana Castelli, Alan Dargan, Daniel de Araujo Joao Roland, Helen Weatherly, Julien Forder, Martin Chalkley, Sarah Birch, Seb Hinde, Shainur Premji