Field of work
David Richards is an experienced nurse and health services researcher. He is author of more than 290 peer reviewed and professional journal articles, books and book chapters. He is joint editor of the book 'Complex Interventions in Health', and has obtained more than £14m (NOK 167m) in external research funding during his career. He undertakes research into complex healthcare interventions including systematic reviews, pilot and feasibility trials, full scale clinical trials and mixed method studies that integrate experimentally-derived outcomes data with findings from observational qualitative studies.
David is an emeritus Senior Investigator in the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Faculty. He has been at the forefront of national and international efforts to improve access to treatment for those suffering from high-prevalence mental health problems such as depression, leading the development of the low-intensity treatment methods. He was a Clinical Informatics Advisor to the UK Department of Health from 2008-2011. He has also worked and published extensively on the evidence base for fundamental nursing care. Until recently, he was President of the European Academy of Nursing Science and Head of Nursing at the University of Exeter, UK.
Between 2020-2022, he was chief investigator of the NIHR funded ‘COVID-NURSE’ cluster randomised controlled clinical trial, evaluating a pandemic-specific clinical nursing protocol used by nurses caring for patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19.
Health Services Research
Fundamental Nursing Care
Clinical Trials
Systematic Reviews
Research Methods
Primary care mental health
Fundamental Nursing Care
Low-intensity psychological therapies
Mixed methods research methods
Diabest
Publications
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Interprofessional follow-up for people at risk of type 2 diabetes in primary healthcare–a randomized controlled trial with embedded qualitative interviews
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An mHealth Intervention to Improve Guardians’ Adherence to Children’s Follow-Up Care for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Tanzania (GuardiansCan Project): Protocol for a Development and Feasibility Study
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Misinterpreting the MRC Framework on complex interventions
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Evaluation of an interprofessional follow-up intervention among people with type 2 diabetes in primary care—A randomized controlled trial with embedded qualitative interviews
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Diabetes Distress and Associations With Demographic and Clinical Variables: A Nationwide Population-Based Registry Study of 10,186 Adults With Type 1 Diabetes in Norway