Sally Fillingham is a Research Associate specialising in Health Intelligence. She works as part of the West Midlands Commissioning Support Unit team and is the Programme Manager on the WMCSU Education and Training programme.
Sally has published a few research papers in scientific journals as well conference presentations / poster displays and chapters in the West Midlands Key Health Data report.
Sally has until recently been working on a regional research programme into accident and emergency (A&E) service use by the Department of Health, where she warehoused, cleaned and analysed data relating to A&E attendances. These data provide insight into how populations use A&E services, especially in terms of temporal and spatial patterns of demand, combining information analysis and academic research across a wide range of health related activity to provide good quality, timely information to inform operational and strategic decision making. Previous to this Sally worked on health related research trials.
Sally is currently working on West Midlands Cranial Neurosurgery Health Needs Assessment and a West Midlands regional Pain Management project. Sally also works on a regional research programme into accident and emergency (A&E) service use.
Previously, Sally worked in health related research trials. These included:
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A Department of Health funded pilot study on obesity study amongst south asian children attending primary schools in Birmingham;
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A commercial surveillance study to estimate the disease burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis in children up to 5 years of age in Europe (West Midlands branch of study); A health related charity funded study which was a pragmatic randomised controlled trial to test the efficacy of nortriptyline plus nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) versus a placebo plus NRT in helping smokers to stop and testing the role of noradrenergic and dopaminergic genetic variants in smoking cessation.
Gavin Rudge, Sally Fillingham, Dr Mohammed Mohammed. Predictors of Neighbourhood Emergency Department Attendances in an English Region. Submitted to Annals of Emergency Medicine, (awaiting confirmation)
Gavin Rudge, Sally Fillingham, Dr Mohammed Mohammed. Predictors of Neighbourhood Emergency Department Attendances in an English Region. Conference Presentation Sept 2010. Society of Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting in 2010.
Gavin Rudge, Sally Fillingham, Dr Mohammed Mohammed. Chapter Thirteen: Patient Satisfaction With GP Practices in the West Midlands. West Midlands Key Health Data 2009/10, Pg 143-164, Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Birmingham
Gavin Rudge, Sally Fillingham, Dr Mohammed Mohammed. Chapter Nine: Predictors of Emergency Department Use At Neighbourhood Level in the West Midlands. West Midlands Key Health Data 2008/09, Pg 101-124, Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Birmingham
Gavin Rudge and Sally Fillingham. Chapter Five: Synthetic Estimates of Attendances At Emergency Departments In The West Midlands Following Assault. West Midlands Key Health Data 2007/08, Pg 33-38, Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Birmingham
Gavin Rudge, Kar K Cheng, Sally Fillingham, Matthew W Cooke, Andrew J Stevens. Emergency department attendances related to alcohol and violence in Birmingham before and after the extension of alcohol licensing hours. Annals of Emergency Medicine, Vol.51, Issue 4, Pg553 (April 2008)
Gavin Rudge and Sally Fillingham. Emergency department attendances related to alcohol and violence in Birmingham before and after the extension of alcohol licensing hours. Poster presentation, April 2008: ICEM 2008 (12th International Conference on Emergency Medicine), San Francisco, California, USA
Paul Aveyard, Carol Johnson, Sally Fillingham, Amanda Parsons, and Mike Murphy. Nortriptyline plus nicotine replacement versus placebo plus nicotine replacement for smoking cessation: pragmatic randomised controlled trial. BMJ published online 27 Apr 2008.