If you would like to hear what dementia researchers are doing this may be of interest.

Research funding opportunity

Interested in applying for research funding? Give your grant application an added edge by submitting it to the RDS South Central Pre-Submission Review Panel.

An open access paper is now available for all to read discussing decision making when deciding whether to transfer care home residents to hospital.

Integrated care systems (ICSs) and provider collaboratives are ushering in a move towards more collaborative working across organisations in health, social care and the voluntary and community sector – and digital health technologies have an important role to play. Digital technologies can help information and communication to flow across organisations, people and places, bringing benefits for both patients and staff, eg, fewer tests, improved patient safety, reduced costs and saving both patients and staff time. However, using digital health technologies to overcome silos, often referred to as interoperability, has been a longstanding challenge.

The Universities of Bristol, Kent, Liverpool, and Oxford, along with The London School of Economics and Political Science, supported by National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaborations are conducting a research study looking at care planning in care homes and how it can support and improve the wellbeing of their residents.

Adult social care workers – who are mostly women – are among the lowest paid in the UK.

If you are interested in social care and research partnerships, you won’t want to miss this event hosted by NIHR ARC Wessex.

Are you a care home manager? Would you be interested in taking part in a one-off (online) meeting to explore the relationships care home have with their communities? If so please get in contact.

Do you want to know how to create open, fun and accessible content for dissemination? Then this is for you.