Centre for Mental Health and Society

Member, CFMHAS

Research Officer

BA

School of Health Sciences, Bangor University
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j.bailey@bangor.ac.uk

03000 847082

John Bailey

I have a background in psychology and have worked as a researcher in forensic mental health services. I began working for Glyndwr University on the Deaths Involving Alcohol (DIAL) project in 2010 with Professors Poole and Robinson. I joined the Bangor School of Social Sciences in July 2012. Since that time I has been working alongside Prof Poole on problems associated with opioid medication prescribed for chronic pain. In collaboration with various NHS healthcare staff, a number of projects have been developed examining.

  • Identifying patients with long-term, high-dose opioid medication (LTHDOM) use in primary care and measuring their prevalence.
  • Factors involved in the development of LTHDOM use.
  • The experiences of patients and their family members of LTHDOM.
  • The effects of LTHDOM use on patient functioning.
  • Interventions to reduce LTHDOM use.
  • GPs’ experiences of prescribing opioid medication for chronic pain.
  • The development of interventions to facilitate the control and reduction of opioid medication prescribing in primary care.
  • The prescription and use of high dose opioids in palliative care and cancer care.

I am also involved in other research examining interventions for long Covid, practice change during the pandemic, cardiac rehabilitation for SCAD patients and treatment outcome assessment for patients with chronic health conditions.

I am also involved in other research examining dependency-forming medication and rational prescribing in prison and interventions with users of new psychoactive substances.

I served as vice chair of the University CBLESS research ethics committee and set up and chaired the School of Social Sciences research ethics subcommittee. I became a member of the School of Health Sciences research ethics committee when CFMHAS moved to that school in the summer of 2018.

I am regularly involved in a number of knowledge exchange activities with healthcare staff in the Local Health Board.

Research interests:

Opioid drugs; chronic pain; the physiological and psychological effects of long-term opioid medication use; the lived experience of patients and their families of using high doses of opioid medication; the prescribing of opioid medication, its control and reduction; research ethics.

Supervision

Lamiya Kabir Nodi – Undergraduate Internship Scheme 2023-2024 – Project:  Qualitative research in chronic health conditions

Papers

  • Gill, S., Bailey, J., Nafees, S., Poole, R. . A qualitative interview study of GPs’ experiences of prescribing opioid medication for chronic pain. BJGP. 2022. 6(4): BJGPO.2022.0085. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpo.2022.0085
  • Bailey, J., Nafees, S., Gill, S., Jones, L., Poole, R. . Patterns of prescribing in primary care leading to high-dose opioid regimens: a mixed-method study. JCGP Open. 2022. 1-7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2022.0134
  • Bailey, John; Gill, Simon; Poole, Rob. John Bailey/Bangor University. Long-term, high-dose opioid prescribing for chronic non-cancer pain in primary care. BJGP Open. 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0217
  • Bailey, J., Nafees, S., Jones, L. & Poole, R. Rationalisation of long-term high-dose opioids for chronic pain: Development of an intervention and conceptual framework. British Journal of Pain. 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2049463720958731
  • Poole R, Bailey J, Robinson CA . The Opioid Crisis and British Prisons. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. CBMH. 2019. DOI: 10.1002/cbmh.2136. Available from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cbm.2136