Kit Huckvale

Background

I joined the Global eHealth Unit in 2008 and, after a couple of years working as a research fellow for a quality improvement project involving the local NHS, registered as a PhD student in 2010. I am funded by the NIHR CLAHRC in North West London.

My doctoral research will consider the scope for smartphone and other handheld device software (apps) in supporting the care of long-term conditions. I am currently involved in a number of systematic reviews that will appraise existing evidence in this area.

My project is supervised by Dr Josip Car, director of the Global eHealth Unit and Dr Julie Reed, Reseach Development Manager for the NIHR CLAHRC in North West London.

I am a qualified doctor and, in 2008, completed a MSc in informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Past work within the eHealth unit has focussed on developing evaluation strategies for various projects within the unit, including Telephone Consultation and tools to support Integrated Care Pathways.

 

About me

Outside of work I enjoy playing the piano, cycling and walking and am involved in set-design and build for DramSoc.

 

Publications

Millett, C., Majeed, A., Huckvale, C. & Car, J. Going local: devolving national pay for performance programmes. Vol. 342 c7085 (Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, UK. c.millett@imperial.ac.uk, England, 2011).

Huckvale, C., et al. Information technology for patient safety. Vol. 19 Suppl 2 i25-33 (Department of Primary Care & Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK., England, 2010).

Atherton, H., Huckvale, C. & Car, J. Communicating health promotion and disease prevention information to patients via email: a review. Vol. 16 172-175 (E-health Unit, Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College London, Charing Cross Campus, St Dunstans Road, London, UK. helen.atherton07@imperial.ac.uk, England, 2010).

Lambie, M.L., John, B., Mushahar, L., Huckvale, C. & Davies, S.J. The peritoneal osmotic conductance is low well before the diagnosis of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis is made. Vol. 78 611-618 (Department of Nephrology, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent, UK., United States, 2010).

Perl, J., Huckvale, K., Chellar, M., John, B. & Davies, S.J. Peritoneal protein clearance and not peritoneal membrane transport status predicts survival in a contemporary cohort of peritoneal dialysis patients. Vol. 4 1201-1206 (Division of Nephrology, University Health Network and St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada., United States, 2009).

Huckvale, C., Richardson, A.M.T., Mann, D.M.A. & Pickering-Brown, S.M. Debrisoquine hydroxylase gene polymorphism (CYP2D6*4) in dementia with Lewy bodies. Vol. 74 135-136 (England, 2003).