Dr Danielle Nimmons

2025- NIHR: Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Yorkshire and Humber
Purpose: Frailty subtheme co-lead
Amount (£200,000)

2025- NIHR: Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Yorkshire and Humber
Purpose: Deputy Lead for ARC2 theme Health and Care in our Ageing Society
Amount (£1.4 million)

2025- NIHR School for Primary Care Research FR13 grant (Co-applicant)
Purpose: Developing a self management toolkit for people experiencing deprivation with multiple long term conditions.
Amount: £614,106

2024- PCPH UCL PPI Bursary
Purpose: Exploring frailty in Pakistani women
Amount: £700

2023- PCPH UCL PPI Bursary
Purpose: Research cafe on health inequalities among minority ethnic groups
Amount: £1570

2023- NIHR: Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) North Thames, (Principal Investigator)
Purpose: Exploring how the eFI can be utilised in clinical practice
Amount: £80,000

2023- NIHR: School for Primary Care Research FR9 grant (Co-Principal Investigator)
Purpose: Understanding the mental health and wellbeing needs within primary care of family carers of people living with dementia from a South Asian background
Amount: £70,458

2023- NIHR: School of Primary Care Research FR6 grant (Co-applicant)
Purpose: Digital Health Inclusion Project (DHIP)
Amount: £65,610

2022- Alzheimer’s Society Clinical Training Fellowship
Purpose: To conduct a PhD in dementia
Amount: £300,000

2022- UCL Beacon bursary
Purpose: Public engagement project exploring sensory stimulation in dementia
Amount: £2000

2022- NIHR: School for Primary Care Research III Bridging Fund Award
Purpose: To support research interrupted by the pandemic
Amount: £10,105

2021- NIHR: In Practice Fellowship
Purpose: Pre doctoral fellowship
Amount: £88,495

2021- NIHR: School for Primary Care Research FR3 grant (Co-applicant)
Purpose: Systematic review of prognostic factors and inequalities in poor outcome in people with dementia
Amount: £66,839

2021- NIHR: School for Primary Care Research FR1a grant (Co-Principal Investigator)
Purpose: Identifying important behaviour change components in complex interventions for people with multiple long term health conditions (M-LTCs): a systematic review
Amount: £15,001

2021- NIHR: School for Primary Care Research FR1 grant (Co-applicant)
Purpose: To explore how socioeconomic status impacts on self-management of long-term conditions and how self management can be improved in this population.
Amount: £129,861

2020- NIHR: School for Primary Care Research FR19a grant (Co- Principal Investigator)
Purpose: To Explore the needs of people with Parkinson’s Disease and Cognitive Impairment in terms of clinical support, acceptance of e-healthcare and the necessary considerations for delivering remote support for this population
Amount: £3,783.

2020- NIHR: School for Primary Care Research FR19 grant (Principal Investigator)
Purpose: To explore the views and experiences of under-represented groups in using digital health to self-manage Parkinson’s disease, from the perspective of the patient and family carer; to inform the development of a digital support tool
Amount: £16,474

2013- INSPIRE Small Grant, Academy of Medical Sciences (Co- Principal Investigator)
Purpose: To develop a student society, to excite and inform students about the opportunities and potential of a career in research
Amount: £10,000

Drozd M, Sebopelo L, Nimmons D, Safdar N, Varghese C. Rebuilding the clinical academic pipeline: an early career vision for reform. BMJ. 2026 May 19;393:e088639. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-088639.

John A, O’Nions E, Corrigan L, Cotton J, Donnellan WJ, Nimmons D, et al. Childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder traits, societal exclusion and midlife psychological distress. Nat Ment Health. 2026;4(4):566-573. doi: 10.1038/s44220-026-00600-0.

Stott J, O’Nions E, Corrigan L, Cotton J, Donnellan WJ, Nimmons D, et al. Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Traits in Childhood and Physical Health in Midlife. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Jan 2;9(1):e2554802. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.54802.

Armstrong M, Jeri-Wahrhaftig A, Woodward A, Nimmons D, et al. Experiencing Socioeconomic Deprivation as a Carer in the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Study. Health Expect. 2025 Dec;28,doi: 10.1111/hex.70502.

Rookes, T. A., Nimmons, D., et al. (2025). Identifying the active components through the behaviour change techniques taxonomy in complex interventions for people living with multiple long-term health conditions: A systematic review. British Journal of Health Psychology, 30, e70019. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.70019

Rookes T, Armstrong M, Walters K, Read J, Chesterman E, Davies N, Pigott J, Nimmons D, et al. Feasibility and Acceptability of Intervention and Trial Procedures of the UCL Live Well With Parkinson’s Self Management Toolkit, Parkinson’s Disease, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1155/padi/2804226

Nimmons D, Clegg A, Walters K. Using the new electronic frailty index (eFI2) to aid frailty identification and management in primary care. Br J Gen Pract. 2025 May 29;75(755):249-250. doi: 10.3399/bjgp25X742473.

Best K, Shuweihdi F, Bazo Alvarez JC, Relton S, Avgerinou C, Nimmons D, et al. Development and external validation of the electronic frailty index 2 using routine primary care electronic health record data, Age and Ageing, April 2025 https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf077

Bazo-Alvarez, J.C., Avgerinou, C., Nimmons, D., et al (2025), Defining Mental Health Conditions Within Primary Care Data: A Validation Study With a Mixed Qualitative and Quantitative Approach. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 31: e14256. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.14256

Poduval, S., Arnold, L., Carta, E.. Nimmons D et al. Do community-based digital health inclusion programmes contribute to tackling health inequalities in disadvantaged population groups?: a qualitative study of experiences of a city-wide programme in the North of England. BMC Public Health 25, 275 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-21418-y

Davies, N., Armstrong, M., Pigott, J.S., Nimmons, D., et al. (2024), Co-Design of a Facilitated Self Management Toolkit for People With Parkinson’s Disease,Health Expectations https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70104

Marshall, M., Jordan, J.L., Bajpai, R., Nimmons D et al. Systematic review of prognostic factors for poor outcome in people living with dementia that can be determined from primary care medical records. BMC Geriatr 24, 801 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-024-05389-0

Nimmons D, et al. “Addressing Multimorbidity through Personalised Care.” Generalism in Clinical Practice and Education, edited by Kay Leedham-Green and Sophie Park, UCL Press, 2024, pp. 397–426. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.9128000.26.

Bazo-Alvarez JC, Nimmons D, et al. Risk of Parkinson’s disease in people aged ≥50 years with new onset anxiety: a retrospective cohort study in UK primary care. Br J Gen Pract. 2024. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2023.0423.

Woodward A, Walters K, Davies N, Nimmons D et al. Barriers and facilitators of self-management of diabetes amongst people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis. Health Expect. 2024; 27:e14070. doi:10.1111/hex.14070

Woodward A, Nimmons D, Davies N, et al. A qualitative exploration of the barriers and facilitators to self managing multiple long-term conditions amongst people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation. Health Expect. 2024 Apr;27(2):e14046. doi: 10.1111/hex.14046.

Rookes TA, Nimmons D, Frost R, et al. Effectiveness of complex behaviour change interventions tested in randomised controlled trials for people with multiple long-term conditions (M-LTCs): systematic review with meta-analysis BMJ Open 2024;14:e081104. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-081104

Nimmons D, Bazo-Alvarez JC, Avgerinou C, et al. Exploring the co-occurrence of depression, anxiety and insomnia symptoms, diagnoses and treatments in primary care: observational study using UK primary care data. BJPsych Open. 2024;10(3):e76. doi:10.1192/bjo.2024.20

Nimmons D, Aker N, et al Clinical effectiveness of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for the management of anxiety in community dwelling people living with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2024 doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105507.

Armstrong, M., Walters, K., Davies, N., Nimmons D et al. Intervention components in the self management of Parkinson’s: a mixed-methods synthesis of qualitative and quantitative evidence. BMC Health Serv Res 24, 92 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-10436-4

Pigott JS, Davies N, Chesterman E, Read J., Nimmons D et al. Compound impact of cognitive and physical decline: a qualitative interview study of people with Parkinson’s and cognitive impairment, caregivers and professionals. Health Expect. 2024; 27:e13950. doi:10.1111/hex.13950

Alldridge L, Sartania N, Hampshire M, Nimmons D et al. Drawing conclusions and future considerations.2024.Pedagogies of Widening Participation in Medical Settings Addressing Under Representation Through Partnership and Professionalism171-175. Doi:10.4324/9781003399858-15

Haque E, Ryan B, Cartwright-Speakman R, Hawwash N, Nimmons D, et al Encouraging student research and engagement in widening participation.2024.Pedagogies of Widening Participation in Medical Settings Addressing Under Representation Through Partnership and Professionalism29-40. Doi:10.4324/9781003399858-4

Pigott JS, Davies N, Chesterman E, Read J, Nimmons D, et al. Delivering Optimal Care to People with Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease: A Qualitative Study of Patient, Caregiver, and Professional Perspectives, Parkinson’s Disease, 2023, 9732217, 16 pages, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/9732217

Okpako O, Woodward A, Walters K, Davies N, Stevenson F, Nimmons D, et al. Effectiveness of self management interventions for long-term conditions in people experiencing socio-economic deprivation in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Journal of Public Health, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdad145

Nimmons D, Manthorpe J, West E, et al. Views of people living with dementia and their carers on their present and future: a qualitative study. BMC Palliat Care. 2023 Apr 10;22(1):38. doi: 10.1186/s12904-023- 01165-w.

Woodward A, Davies N, Walters K, Nimmons D, et al. Self-management of multiple long-term conditions: A systematic review of the barriers and facilitators amongst people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation. PLoS One. 2023 Feb 21;18(2):e0282036. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282036.

Pigott J, Armstrong M, Chesterman E, Read J, Nimmons D, et al. Remote Consultations for People With Parkinson Disease and Cognitive Impairment: Interview Study With Patients, Caregivers, and Health Care Professionals. JMIR Neurotech 2022;1(1):e39974. DOI: 10.2196/39974

Shah R, Read J, Davies N, Nimmons D, et al. People with Parkinson’s perspectives and experiences of self management: Qualitative findings from a UK study. PLoS One. 2022. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273428.

Nimmons D, Armstrong M, Pigott J, et al. Exploring the experiences of people and family carers from under represented groups in self-managing Parkinson’s disease and their use of digital health to do this. Digit Health. 2022 May 26;8:20552076221102261. doi: 10.1177/20552076221102261.

Nimmons D, Bhanu C, Orlu M, et al. Orthostatic Hypotension and Antiparkinsonian Drugs: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 2022. doi: 10.1177/08919887211060017.

Bhanu C, Nimmons D, Petersen I, et al. Drug-induced orthostatic hypotension: A systematic review and meta analysis of randomised controlled trials. PLoS Med. 2021. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003821.

Nimmons D, Jones MM. The UCL ‘Preparation for Practice’ teaching programme. Med Educ. 2020 Nov;54(11):1077-1078. doi: 10.1111/medu.14326.

Nimmons D, Hatter L, Davies N, et al. Experiences of advance care planning in Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonian disorders: a mixed methods systematic review. doi: 10.1111/ene.14424.

Frost R, Nimmons D, Davies N. Using Remote Interventions in Promoting the Health of Frail Older Persons Following the COVID-19 Lockdown: Challenges and Solutions. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2020. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2020.05.038.

Nimmons D, My first hearing-impaired patient. Acad Med. 2020. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003213. ,

Nimmons D, Giny S, Rosenthal J. Medical student mentoring programs: current insights. Adv Med Educ Pract. 2019;10:113-123. https://doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S154974

Nimmons D, Pattison T, O’Neill P. Medical student attitudes and concepts of frailty and delirium. European Geriatric Medicine (2018) 9:45. Doi: 10.1007/s41999-017-0018-y

Imison C, Curry N, Holder H, Castle-Clarke S, Nimmons D, et al (2017), Shifting the balance of care: great expectations. Research report. Nuffield Trust.

Azmy J, Nimmons D. Reflections on a widening participation role. The Clinical Teacher. 2016. doi: 10.1111/tct.12574

Nimmons D, Michou E, Jones M, et al. A Longitudinal Study of Symptoms of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in an Elderly Community-Dwelling Population. Dysphagia. 2016 (4):560-6. doi: 10.1007/s00455 016-9715-9.

Nimmons D, Limdi JK. Elderly patients and inflammatory bowel disease. World J Gastrointest Pharmacol Ther. 2016;7(1):51–65. doi: 10.4292/wjgpt.v7.i1.51. 41. Nimmons D. Developing mentoring skills as a student. The Clinical Teacher. 2015. doi: 10.2147/AMEP.S154974

Nimmons D, Pendleton N, Payton A, Ollier W, Horan M, Wilkinson J, Hamdy S. A novel association between COMT and BDNF gene polymorphisms and likelihood of symptomatic dysphagia in older people. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2015; 27(9):1223–31. doi: 10.1111/nmo.12609.