NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West

Midlands (CLAHRC WM)

The Year that Was

Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care

Hospital

Primary Care

Local Authority

Implementation

£20m £10m

Evaluation

The CLAHRC structure

Identify service need

Implement

CLAHRC - Reviews

Develop interventions CLAHRC - Management

CLAHRC - Evaluate

How will we know we have succeeded?

Communication

Publications Grants

Dev

elop

cap

acity

Client engagement

Intervention selection/adaptation

Interventions evaluated

Service Impact: Extended Collaborators

Academic Outputs: Papers

Maternity & child health

[Th. 1]

Youth mental health[Th. 2]

Prevention & detection of

diseases[Th. 3]

Chronic diseases[Th. 4]

Implementation & organisa-

tional studies[Th. 5]

Research methods[Th. 6]

CLAHRC-BBC Legacy Work

[Th. 7]

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5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

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60

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120

140

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26.054

54.982

139.618

116.491

8.174

104.782

81.346

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Academic Outputs: External Grant Income

Mat

erni

ty & ch

ild h

ealth

[Th.

1]

Youth

men

tal h

ealth

[Th.

2]

Preve

ntio

n & d

etec

tion

of d

iseas

es

[Th.

3] Chr

onic

dise

ases

[Th.

4]

Impl

emen

tatio

n & o

rgan

isatio

nal s

tudi

es

[Th.

5] Res

earc

h m

etho

ds

[Th.

6]

Other

& C

LAHRC-B

BC lega

cy w

ork

[Th.

7]

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• In year amount Apr 14 to Mar 15: £8,286,845 • Total amount: £47,725,281

Academic Outputs: Postgraduate Support

0

5

10

15

20

25

PhD MD MSc Other

• Total number of postgraduate students: 83

Key Special Initiatives & Events

Event Outputs

Integrating care for people with chronic diseases – National CLAHRC workshop

Collaborative grant with PenCLAHRC

- Methods for service delivery workshop with Prof Kieran Walshe at Manchester

- Psychology of change workshop with Prof Susan Michie, UCL

Development of MRC framework for evaluation of complex interventions to contribute evidence from a health service context

Patient safety forum Patient safety emerging as cross-cutting Theme.

How is it really going?

1) Existing themes vs. new theme

2) NIHR + Matched funds don’t match! Variable engagement

3) Patchwork quilt

4) Convert rate to grant application*5) Managing diverse enterprise

6) Emerging strength in behavioural and organisational psychology

7) AHSN relations

8) Changing political environment

9) Online testing + public engagement with science

10) Cross-cutting themes*

*Advice from Scientific Advisory Group

Discussions