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Professor Paul Coulthard

Founder and CEO

Background

Paul Coulthard is Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Queen Mary University of London and Consultant with Barts Health NHS Trust. He has significant leadership experience and was recently Dean in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. He was previously Head of the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Manchester. This School consisted of the Research Institutes of ‘Cancer Sciences’, ‘Cardiovascular Sciences’, ‘Developmental Biology & Medicine’, ‘Diabetes, Endocrinology & Gastroenterology’ and the ‘Manchester Medical School’ and ‘Manchester Dental School’. Prior to this he was Dean of the Manchester Dental School for five years.

He was recently President of the ‘British Association of Oral Surgeons’. Professor Coulthard has chaired several Working Groups for NHS England that have published reports changing the delivery of clinical care in England.

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He is working with the World Health Organisation (WHO) as member of the Steering Committee developing a Public Health and Emergency Workforce Roadmap Competency and Outcomes Framework. This is to meet the challenges brought by COVID-19 as well as better prepare the world to prevent future pandemics, and other public health threats that could have a significant impact on economies and social development. 

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He is passionate about encouraging health professionals and their teams to support their patients presenting with Domestic Violence (DV). Professor Coulthard was influential in highlighting the increased risk of DV during the household isolation measures imposed to reduce coronavirus transmission during the COVID pandemic.

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Facts and Figures

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Bloomsbury Trust investigates the epidemiology and aetiology of facial trauma. Comprehensive data is essential for informing policy and measuring progress in all countries and individual regions

• Healthcare systems and public health agencies should investigate methods of all injury prevention
• Important for healthcare systems in every part of the world to ensure access to treatment resources

Data Capture

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Data enables advocacy. AI for improved digital data technologies is required. Data collection and analysis are key for healthcare systems and public health agencies to understand and investigate methods of all injury prevention. They are also important for healthcare systems in every part of the world to understand where they are most concentrated geographically

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AI for improved digital data technologies is required

Referral

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Referral management has been effective in ensuring improved access, reducing inefficiencies & inequalities and better-quality patient care and outcomes in clinical medicine. An online referral management system can be used to offer the same benefits for patients presenting to healthcare who are experiencing domestic violence in directing them to an appropriate domestic violence agency for support

Community Engagement

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Describing the wider community behaviours in terms of health systems to develop preventative and support strategies for those who experience facial trauma. Community engagement informs rational improvements in care, together with advances healthcare training and systems

 

Bloomsbury Trust recognises the importance of listening to the Unheard Voices. Providing local communities, a stronger voice in shaping research priorities

Domestic Violence

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Domestic violence (DV) is a global public health problem, and healthcare professionals are in a good position to help victims and survivors. However, doctors, dentists, nurses and other healthcare professionals have not in the past actively supported their patients who present with injuries or other signs that might have resulted from DV

 

The role of Medical, Dental, Nursing or other Healthcare Professionals is to Identify the cause of facial injury and report this. Those experiencing DV also require referral to the appropriate agencies for specialist DV support 

Diagnostic Solutions

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Sophisticated diagnostics, such as CT scans, are routinely utilised in high resource healthcare systems but are not available globally. There is a need for clinical support in interpretation of both advanced imaging and also plain imaging as diagnosis of facial fracture may be missed or significantly delayed with both leading to devastating consequences for the patient


Bloomsbury Trust develops Artificial Intelligence for enhanced diagnostics, and predictive analytics to offer patients of the developing and the developed world better care!

Training
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The role of Health Professionals has traditionally been to manage the physical facial injury alone but there is also a need for contribution to injury prevention by identification of aetiology and reporting

 

All healthcare professionals should benefit from the same high-quality training opportunities, no matter where they live, and this requires new transformative technology

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Traditional education of healthcare providers in Domestic Violence (DV) issues has depended on face-to-face training. The Covid-19 pandemic taught us that we can do things differently

 

The Benefits of innovative educational technologies:

  • Improving access to quality assured education and training

  • Reducing time and costs of healthcare professionals providing training

  • Accelerating a global change in the practice of health professionals and their teams regarding identification and referral of their patients who present with physical injury or other signs that might indicate Domestic Violence (DV)

 

Bloomsbury Trust are developing bespoke training for Dental Professionals about Domestic Violence identification and referral to Domestic Abuse support services - DV Dent

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Bloomsbury Trust

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