CLAHRC EOE News and Events
A new Q Lab project in partnership with Mind The Q Improvement Lab – an initiative led by the Health Foundation and supported by NHS Improvement – is developing new approaches to making progress on health and care challenges. Working on a single challenge for 12 months, it brings together […]
UK Malnutrition Awareness Week The first ever UK Malnutrition Awareness Week will be taking place form 1st – 5th of October 2018. Staff from the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC) and students from the University of Hertfordshire will be working in a number of community […]
Joined-up listening: integrated care and patient insight As part of a project on integrated care and patient insight and feedback, The King’s Fund have been learning from interviews, round-tables and direct work with six local areas to understand the full potential of patient insight within integrated systems. Find out more […]
Policy Research Programme call for applications A new NIHR Policy Research Programme (PRP) call is open. The programme invites applications on two topics: Infectious Disease Dynamic Modelling in Health Protection Health Inequalities Research Initiative. Infectious Disease Dynamic Modelling in Health Protection The call will address two key areas: A stream […]
Recognising the role of patient data in NIHR The NIHR recognises and values the role of patient data, both in underpinning and leading to improvements in research and care. Examples of types of patient data used in research include: GP records Clinical audits, for example the National Diabetes Audit Disease […]
NHS England consultation – simplifying research arrangements to improve patient care Background NHS England and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) have published a joint statement committing to 12 actions to support and apply research in the NHS. In connection with this, NHS England – along with partners including the […]
Cross CLAHRC Collaboration Report Whilst all 13 CLAHRCs have clear individual programmes of activity to contribute to the overall NIHR vision ‘to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research’, they have also worked together extensively. This report identifies and explores the breadth and scope of this cross-CLAHRC […]
Patient Experience in England Report NHS strategies, from the Five Year Forward View down, state that an understanding of patient experience is central to development of “person-centred” services. However, the 2018 Patient Experience in England report shows that staff teams across the NHS continue to struggle to make sense of […]
Podcast: The role of pragmatic clinical trials The importance of pragmatic trials (trials designed primarily to help policy makers, decision makers, and practitioners choose between care options) has become more widely recognised over recent years. In this NIHR podcast, Professor Sandra Eldridge, Professor of Biostatistics and Associate Dean for Strategic […]
Introducing ‘Dementia Researcher’ website Earlier this year, a brand-new website for early career researchers working in the field of dementia was launched. It was driven by the need to support emerging talent and increase the number of dementia researchers in the UK, as part of the Government’s Dementia 2020 implementation […]