The National Institute for Health Research funded study, published in BMC Medicine in March 2020, was led by Dr Alex Sohal from Queen Mary University of London in collaboration with Professor Gene Feder and Dr Natalia Lewis from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC) and others.
The study found that implementation of the IRIS programme led to a 30-fold increase in domestic violence and abuse referrals for women across 205 general practices in London.
IRIS (Identification & Referral to Improve Safety) had previously been positively evaluated in a randomised controlled trial, led by Professor Feder. It is now the flagship programme of IRISi, a social enterprise established in 2017 by Professor Feder and IRISi’s CEO, Medina Johnson.
Read the full press release on the Centre for Primary Academic Care website.