If you missed our CRED talk this week we have recorded it, therefore you do not need to miss a thing!

We heard from:

Chair: Professor Deborah Sturdy, England’s Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care

Adeela Usman, Doctoral Fellow at the University of Nottingham: QUINCE study: How quality of life is described and can be delivered in care homes

Dr Kellyn Lee, WISER Health and Social Care, and Dr Jane Frankland, University of Southampton: Material Citizenship training: how thinking about everyday objects differently can improve quality of life in care homes

Bryony Beresford, Professor of Health and Care Services Research, University of York: Behind the scenes: organisational features and practices which support and nurture relationship-centred homecare

Please see the recording of the webinar here.

We are now welcoming proposals for #CRED talks on other topics in the months to come. If you are a research team or research-practice partnership with social care research to share, please contact arcwessex@soton.ac.uk to find out more.

“Greater attention is rightly being paid to the valuable work that social care staff do to support living and dying well in care home and domiciliary care settings. The evidence base is growing about promoting continence and preventing urinary tract infection (UTI) in old age and is a potentially helpful resource for social care staff and managers. This #CRED talk showcases the best of this research in the UK, with a focus on practical take-home messages for people working in social care.

When the need to go to the toilet is complicated by mobility, sensory and cognitive challenges the health and social care needs of the person often intersect. This #CRED talk will consider the value of reframing different interventions as integral to intimate and personal care work and of fitting them alongside other care being delivered. It discusses how opportunities to reflect on practice and learn from each other about how to promote continence and prevent UTI, help to ensure that existing evidence is used more effectively.

This #CRED talk will bring you up to date with the latest evidence and associated learning resources in care home and domiciliary settings, with the aim of supporting you in the work that you do.”

Date: Thursday 4th May 2023

Time: 15:00 – 16:00

Venue: Online 

For more details please click here 

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“Greater attention is rightly being paid to the valuable work that social care staff do to support living and dying well in care home and domiciliary care settings. The evidence base is growing about promoting continence and preventing urinary tract infection (UTI) in old age and is a potentially helpful resource for social care staff and managers. This #CRED talk showcases the best of this research in the UK, with a focus on practical take-home messages for people working in social care.

When the need to go to the toilet is complicated by mobility, sensory and cognitive challenges the health and social care needs of the person often intersect. This #CRED talk will consider the value of reframing different interventions as integral to intimate and personal care work and of fitting them alongside other care being delivered. It discusses how opportunities to reflect on practice and learn from each other about how to promote continence and prevent UTI, help to ensure that existing evidence is used more effectively.

This #CRED talk will bring you up to date with the latest evidence and associated learning resources in care home and domiciliary settings, with the aim of supporting you in the work that you do.

We will be hearing from:

Cathy Murphy, Principal Research Fellow, Bladder & Bowel Management Research Group, University of Southampton: Continence support for people living at home with dementia (DemCon)

Leah Fullegar, PhD student at the University of Southampton: Incontinence and care worker empowerment: My journey in dementia care and research

Claire Goodman, Professor of Health Care Research Centre for Research in Public health and Community Care (CRIPACC): Continence care for people living with dementia in care homes an evidence review: what works in social care settings?

Jacqui Prieto (Associate Clinical Professor at University of Southampton) and Jennie Wilson (Professor at University of West London): Preventing urinary tract infection in care home settings – the ‘StOP UTI’ study

Please join us in creating a credible platform for social care research education and debate #CREDTALKS.

Date:  Thursday 4^th May 2023 15:00 – 16:00

 Please click here to register for the event.

Once you have registered you will be invited to the webinar, which will take place via Microsoft Teams. Please see the attached flyer for more details.

“National policy makers are a crucial audience for health and care researchers yet many researchers don’t know how to connect with them.

This webinar from Professor Annette Boaz (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) will explain the important areas to consider when engaging with and sharing research knowledge with policy makers. It will help researchers to understand what they can offer policy makers and what knowledge mobilisation approaches are most useful. It will also discuss potential challenges and practical tips.

This webinar is for anyone in the health and care community wishing to engage with and share research knowledge with policy makers. By attending this webinar you should:

• Understand what researchers can offer policy makers

• Learn about the key areas to consider when engaging with and sharing research knowledge with policy makers

• Recognise the challenges of engaging with policy makers and provide practical tips to help researchers overcome these.

You will also have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of the webinar.

About our speaker

Annette Boaz is Professor of Health and Social Care Policy at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and is a member of the WHO European Advisory Committee on Health Research. With Kathryn Oliver, she co-leads Transforming Evidence, an international initiative designed to support the use of research evidence in different policy fields and contexts.

She has more than 25 years of experience in supporting the use of evidence across a range of policy domains. She was part of one of the largest UK investments in the evidence use landscape and was a Founding Editor of the Journal Evidence & Policy. Annette has also undertaken an international leadership role to promote the use of evidence. In 2019, she published a new book ‘What Works Now’.

This event is being run by NIHR in partnership with NIHR ARC West.”

Date & time: 20 April 2023, 1:00-2:00pm BST

Learn more and register here.

The NIHR Research Design Service (RDS) are hosting a free NIHR Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Webinar on 6 February 2023 , 9.30 am to 12.30 pm.

Speakers for the webinar will include:

• the Director of RDS East of England (RDS EoE) who will talk about the help available for applicants
• a programme manager from the HSDR team who will give an overview of the HSDR remit
• a former HSDR panel member who will speak about what the panel are looking for in an application
• two current HSDR grant holders who will describe their studies

We hope this informative session will provide an insight into the funding stream and support those who are currently preparing bids for submission.

Click here to register

“The Health Technology Assessment Programme is accepting straight-to-stage 2 applications to their commissioned workstream, for this primary research topic.

In order to apply you will need to carefully review the:

• Commissioning brief
• Stage 2 application supporting information
• Guidance notes

Applications received by the advertised closing date will be considered at a single-stage funding committee meeting. For more information, please read the commissioning brief.

All primary research projects are expected to establish a programme appointed Study Steering Committee and it is important that you read the Research Governance Guidance before completing your application. Costs incurred by this committee should be included in the budget as appropriate.

Webinar

The NIHR will be holding a webinar to discuss this call on 2 February 2023, 10.30 – 11.30am. The webinar will be followed by virtual clinics from 11.45am – 2pm. This will provide an opportunity for potential applicants to discuss their proposed research with the NIHR team and RDS colleagues. Applicants may register to attend just the webinar by emailing their name and institution to htaresearchers@nihr.ac.uk, however, if you would like to also join a clinic, please email in a 1 page PICO summary of your proposed project to htaresearchers@nihr.ac.uk before 20 January 2023.

As places are limited, we will then review the submissions and confirm whether you have a place. The intention is for the one-page summary to provide a basis for discussion at the clinic. Please note that there is no guarantee of funding by attending a clinic; the purpose of the clinics is to offer assistance, and advice to potential applicants.”

“ASCOT 10th Anniversary Webinar Series

The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) measures the impact of social care (long-term care) on the quality of life of people using services and their informal carers. Although in development for much longer, it is now a decade since the launch of the preference-weighted measure in 2012. Since then, ASCOT has been used around the world in research, evaluation, policy and practice. It has been translated into Danish, Finnish, German, Dutch, Japanese and most recently, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian and Chinese. It continues to develop, informed by international learning and use in policy and practice. ASCOT now includes tools for measuring the impact of services on informal carers and its suite of tools include Easy Read questionnaires for people with intellectual disabilities and autism and a mixed-methods approach for use in care homes.

This webinar series celebrates a decade of outcome measurement in adult social care, bringing together an international network of researchers and experts in long-term care to present their findings and consider future research priorities.

Who should attend?

• Researchers
• Policy makers
• Practitioners and clinicians working in long-term care
• Care providers and commissioners
• Care regulators
• Sector and provider representatives

Webinar One: Evaluating Social Care Interventions

Date: 12 October 2022   12:30 -13:30

Focuses on the application of ASCOT in evaluating social care interventions/services in England.

Chair: TBC

Speakers:

Dr Phillip Whitehead, Newcastle University and Dr Katharine Orellana, HSCRU, Kings College London.

• The use of ASCOT in the Bathing Adaptations in the Homes of Older Adults study (BATH-OUT-1 & 2) – Dr Phillip Whitehead, Newcastle University.
• Using ASCOT-INT4 to investigate the impact of day centres for older people–Dr Katharine Orellana, HSCRU, Kings College London.

If you would like to find out more about ASCOT please visit our ASCOT website.”

To register click here

“Research in social care is very important as it can inform social work practice and improve outcomes for people. The Kent Research Partnership is one of six capacity building, social care partnerships funded by the NIHR Health Services and Delivery (HS&DR) programme in England. Our four-year programme of work will develop sustainable Kent-based partnerships to support the delivery of high quality social care research on the topics that matter most in our region.

Kent County Council Adult Social Care, the University of Kent and partners are leading a project that aims to help build capacity and develop a positive culture of research.

Communities of Practice are a key aspect of this work as they enable people from all backgrounds to come together to discuss their shared area of interest, learn from each other and existing research, and develop tangible research projects about the topic which will have a real impact on practice.

Objectives of the Meeting:

This is the first meeting of our co-produced Community of Practice: “Enhancing, diversifying and sustaining social care workforce”. At this meeting, you will:

• Build relationships with members of this Community, including people supported by adult social care, carers, and the health and social care workforce.
• Build on discussions from the first meeting and hear from guest speakers about research related to social care recruitment and retention in Kent. This meeting’s topics include: issues care providers face, funding and the fair price for care, how the workforce influences quality of social care, and what affects recruitment and retention.

• Learn more about how to get access to research-related activities, training, online resources and admin support available for you to be fully engaged in the Community.

Our Invited Speakers are:

Collette Thornton – Business Development Manager, Cartref Homes

Steve Allan – Senior Research Fellow, University of Kent

The speakers will talk about issues care providers face, how workforce influences social care quality, and recruitment & retention.

Who should attend:

• Social care practitioners and managers
• People who use social care
• Family/friends who are carers for someone
• Commissioners and providers of care
• Researchers with an interest in social care

Date: 14 July, 12:30-14:00

IT and participation support:

If you would like some further help with using the virtual video meeting platform (Zoom) and the online collaboration platform (GlassCubes) please refer to the Community of Practice handbook or contact us and we would be happy to support you.

If there is anything we can do to make it easier for you to attend and participate, do not hesitate to let us know.

If you would like to get in touch or find out more, please contact us: KentResearchPartnership@kent.ac.”

Click here to register

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