Dr Sue Bellass BSc (Hons) MA PhD
Senior Research Associate
My profile
Biography
I have a background in social science and am a qualitative health researcher with over fifteen years’ experience, having conducted research largely with marginalised populations including people with dementia, people with severe mental illness and people who have lived in prison.
My current research within the ADMISSION research collaborative aims to improve understanding of the hospital care experiences of people who live with more than one long-term health condition (referred to as multiple long-term conditions or multimorbidity).
Projects
I work within ADMISSION, a UKRI-NIHR funded research collaborative which aims to transform understanding of multiple long-term conditions (at least two long-term health conditions) in hospital patients.
Teaching
Supervision
I supervise a Dunhill Medical Trust /Newcastle University PhD student on her study ‘Unravelling the complexity of inequalities in hospital care for people living with multiple long-term conditions’.
Research outputs
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Journal articles
Bellass, S., Scharf, T., Errington, L., Bowden Davies, K., Robinson, S., Runacres, A., Ventre, J., Witham, M.D., Sayer, A.A., Cooper, R. (2024) 'Experiences of hospital care for people with multiple long-term conditions: a scoping review of qualitative research.' BMC Medicine, 22(1)
Hearty, P., Canvin, K., Bellass, S., Hampton, S., Wright, N., Sheard, L. (2023) 'Understanding the impact of Covid-19 on the delivery and receipt of prison healthcare: an international scoping review.' Health and Justice, 11(1)
Sheard, L., Bellass, S., McLintock, K., Foy, R., Canvin, K. (2023) 'Understanding the organisational influences on the quality of and access to primary care in English prisons: a qualitative interview study.' British Journal of General Practice, 73(735) pp. E720-E727.
McLintock, K., Foy, R., Canvin, K., Bellass, S., Hearty, P., Wright, N., Cunningham, M., Seanor, N., Sheard, L., Farragher, T. (2023) 'The quality of prison primary care: cross-sectional cluster-level analyses of prison healthcare data in the North of England.' EClinicalMedicine, 63pp. 102171-102171.
Blackaby, J., Byrne, J., Bellass, S., Canvin, K., Foy, R. (2023) 'Interventions to improve the implementation of evidence-based healthcare in prisons: a scoping review.' Health and Justice, 11(1)
Bellass, S. (2023) '‘Trying to battle a very slow version of the system that exists outside’: Experiences of waiting for healthcare in English prisons.' Health (United Kingdom),
Carswell, C., Brown, J.V.E., Lister, J., Ajjan, R.A., Alderson, S.L., Balogun-Katung, A., Bellass, S., Double, K., Gilbody, S., Hewitt, C.E., Holt, R.I.G., Jacobs, R., Kellar, I., Peckham, E., Shiers, D., Taylor, J., Siddiqi, N., Coventry, P. (2022) 'The lived experience of severe mental illness and long-term conditions: a qualitative exploration of service user, carer, and healthcare professional perspectives on self-managing co-existing mental and physical conditions.' BMC Psychiatry, 22(1) pp. 479-479.
Bellass, S., Canvin, K., McLintock, K., Wright, N., Farragher, T., Foy, R., Sheard, L. (2022) 'Quality indicators and performance measures for prison healthcare : a scoping review.' Health and Justice, 10pp. 13-13.
Balogun-Katung, A., Carswell, C., Brown, J.V.E., Coventry, P., Ajjan, R., Alderson, S., Bellass, S., Boehnke, J.R., Holt, R., Jacobs, R., Kellar, I., Kitchen, C., Lister, J., Peckham, E., Shiers, D., Siddiqi, N., Wright, J., Young, B., Taylor, J. (2021) 'Exploring the facilitators, barriers, and strategies for self-management in adults living with severe mental illness, with and without long-term conditions: a qualitative evidence synthesis.' PLoS One, 16(10) pp. e0258937-e0258937.
Wang, H.I., Han, L., Jacobs, R., Doran, T., Holt, R.I.G., Prady, S.L., Gilbody, S., Shiers, D., Alderson, S., Hewitt, C., Taylor, J., Kitchen, C.E.W., Bellass, S., Siddiqi, N. (2021) 'Healthcare resource use and costs for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus with and without severe mental illness in England: longitudinal matched-cohort study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink.' British Journal of Psychiatry, 221(1) pp. 402-409.
Coventry, P.A., Young, B., Balogun-Katang, A., Taylor, J., Brown, J.V.E., Kitchen, C., Kellar, I., Peckham, E., Bellass, S., Wright, J., Alderson, S., Lister, J., Holt, R.I.G., Doherty, P., Carswell, C., Hewitt, C., Jacobs, R., Osborn, D., Boehnke, J., Siddiqi, N. (2021) 'Determinants of Physical Health Self-Management Behaviours in Adults With Serious Mental Illness: A Systematic Review.' Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12pp. 723962-723962.
Han, L., Doran, T., Holt, R.I.G., Hewitt, C., Jacobs, R., Prady, S.L., Alderson, S.L., Shiers, D., Wang, H.I., Bellass, S., Gilbody, S., Kitchen, C.E.W., Lister, J., Taylor, J., Siddiqi, N. (2021) 'Impact of severe mental illness on healthcare use and health outcomes for people with type 2 diabetes: a longitudinal observational study in England.' British Journal of General Practice, 71(709) pp. e565-e573.
Bellass, S., Lister, J., Kitchen, C.E.W., Kramer, L., Alderson, S.L., Doran, T., Gilbody, S., Han, L., Hewitt, C., Holt, R.I.G., Jacobs, R., Prady, S.L., Shiers, D., Siddiqi, N., Taylor, J. (2021) 'Living with diabetes alongside a severe mental illness: A qualitative exploration with people with severe mental illness, family members and healthcare staff.' Diabetic Medicine, 38(7) pp. 14562-14562.
Bellass, S., Canvin, K., McLintock, K., Wright, N. (2021) 'Editorials integrating primary care across the prison and community interface.' British Journal of General Practice, 71(703) pp. 56-57.
Lister, J., Han, L., Bellass, S., Taylor, J., Alderson, S.L., Doran, T., Gilbody, S., Hewitt, C., Holt, R.I.G., Jacobs, R., Kitchen, C.E.W., Prady, S.L., Radford, J., Ride, J.R., Shiers, D., Wang, H.I., Siddiqi, N. (2021) 'Identifying determinants of diabetes risk and outcomes for people with severe mental illness: a mixed-methods study.'
Bellass, S., Taylor, J., Han, L., Prady, S.L., Shiers, D., Jacobs, R., Gregory Holt, R.I., Radford, J., Gilbody, S., Hewitt, C., Doran, T., Alderson, S.L., Siddiqi, N. (2019) 'Exploring severe mental illness and diabetes: Protocol for a longitudinal, observational, and qualitative mixed methods study.' JMIR Research Protocols, 8(9)
Stievano, A., Bellass, S., Rocco, G., Olsen, D., Sabatino, L., Johnson, M. (2018) 'Nursing’s professional respect as experienced by hospital and community nurses.' Nursing Ethics, 25(5) pp. 665-683.
Bellass, S., Balmer, A., May, V., Keady, J., Buse, C., Capstick, A., Burke, L., Bartlett, R., Hodgson, J. (2018) 'Broadening the debate on creativity and dementia: A critical approach.' Dementia, 18(7-8) pp. 2799-2820.
McEvoy, P., Bellass, S. (2017) 'Using drawings as a reflective tool to enhance communication in dementia care..' Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987), 31(19) pp. 46-52.