Two new partnerships between NHS organisations and leading
universities will receive a total of 18 million to conduct research
and improve care in major conditions including depression, dementia,
stroke, and childhood obesity, the Department of Health announced
recently.
The new NIHR (National Institute for Health Research) Collaborations
for Health Research and Care in Nottinghamshire and in Cambridgeshire
Peterborough were selected by an independent international
selection panel and will start work on 1st October 2008.
The two new partnerships will complement the seven Collaborations
announced in May 2008, which will also start work in October. Each
Collaboration will bring together universities and their surrounding
NHS organisations to test new treatments and new ways of working in
specific clinical areas, to see if they are effective and appropriate
for everyday use in the health service. Where potential improvements
are identified, the collaborations will help NHS staff to incorporate
them into their everyday working practices, so that patients across
the local community receive a better standard of healthcare.
Professor Sally C. Davies, Director General of Research and
Development at the Department of Health said:
The NIHR Collaborations for Health Research and Care represent an
exciting and innovative partnership between universities and the NHS.
They will undertake high quality applied health research and develop
new ways of translating research findings into improved outcomes for
patients. They will be conducting this work at the front line of the
NHS so that the benefits and findings from research can be swiftly
incorporated into routine clinical practice.
1. The NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research
and Care (NIHR CLAHRCs) will undertake high-quality applied health
research focused on the needs of patients and support the translation
of research evidence into practice in the NHS for the benefit of
patients, including the trialling and evaluation of initiatives to
encourage adoption of evidence based practice or clinical
effectiveness. Further information about NIHR CLAHRCs (including
details of the seven CLAHRCs announced on 27th May) is available at:
http://www.nihr.ac.uk/infrastructure_clahrcs.aspx.
2. List of new NIHR CLAHRC awards and areas of activity:
Name of Collaboration
NIHR CLAHRC for Nottinghamshire
Lead NHS Organisation
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Academic Partner(s)
University of Nottingham
Themes
- Multi-level assessment and intervention to implement innovation in
the delivery of patient-focused care in NHS Trusts
- Synthesis and dissemination of research and implementation
programme: engaging stakeholders through a focus on access to care
and occupational outcomes
- An organisational studies approach to commissioning and
implementing innovation for local service delivery to people with
serious mental illness and personality disorder
- Targeting behavioural interventions for people with challenging
chronic illness in primary care: Reducing the burden of disability
and improving service effectiveness
- Translating stroke rehabilitation into NHS clinical practice
- Children and Young Peoples Health and Behaviour: Putting evidence
into practice
Name of Collaboration
NIHR CLAHRC for Cambridgeshire Peterborough
Lead NHS Organisation
Cambridgeshire Peterborough Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Academic Partner(s)
University of Cambridge
Themes
- Addressing the mental health and wellbeing of adolescents with
ongoing mental health and social care needs
- Mental health and psychological wellbeing among adults with
long-term conditions: maintaining and improving the lives of people
with developmental conditions or post-traumatic impairments of brain
function
- Supporting mental health in the older population
- Public Health supporting mental health across the lifespan
- Designing High Quality Care Pathways
3. To be successful, the NHS/University partnerships had to
demonstrate an excellent record in undertaking applied health
research (particularly research targeted at chronic disease and ways
of improving public health) and to put forward very strong proposals
for new research and for implementing research findings, which were
very likely to generate a step change in the way that research is
done and research evidence is implemented into practice.
4. The research to be undertaken by the two new NIHR CLAHRCs will aim
to improve diagnosis and/or treatment and ensure that improved ways
of working are introduced into the NHS in the following areas:
- the transition of adolescents with ongoing mental health and social
care needs from services for young people into adult mental health
services and the community
- support for men and women with long-term conditions, such as
learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders and cerebral palsy
- the mental health of the older population, including studies of
dementia and depression
- serious mental illness personality disorder
- stroke rehabilitation
- childhood obesity
- Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD),
- enhancing prevention and service access for disadvantaged South
Asian communities in relation to obesity and diabetes, and depression
anxiety
5. Funding for all nine CLAHRCs will commence on 1st October 2008 and
will total 88 million over five years.
6. The National Institute for Health Research provides the framework
through which the research staff and research infrastructure of the
NHS in England is positioned, maintained and managed as a national
research facility. The NIHR provides the NHS with the support and
infrastructure it needs to conduct first-class research funded by the
Government and its partners alongside high-quality patient care,
education and training. Its aim is to support outstanding
individuals (both leaders and collaborators), working in world class
facilities (both NHS and university), conducting leading edge
research focused on the needs of patients. More information about the
National Institute for Health Research is available on its website
at: http://www.nihr.ac.uk.
7. The National Institute for Health Researchs progress report
Transforming Health Research the first two years can be downloaded
from the NIHR website at:
http://www.nihr.ac.uk/about_progress_report.aspx.

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