The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) in the region is promoting an exciting new opportunity for a Band 7 Training Manager to join its Clinical Research Network across East Anglia, East Midlands and West Midlands in supporting the growth of research in non-Hospital settings.

This free webinar will bring together researchers, providers, people who use services and their representatives or carers, policy makers, and regulators to discuss emerging evidence, innovation, and best practice for a sustainable social care workforce. The webinar will take place on 30 September 2021 -12:30 – 13:45 BST. Please register on Eventbrite

The Centre for Health Services Studies is seeking to appoint an experienced researcher with an understanding of social care and healthcare, and experience of project management, analysis and evaluation, and postgraduate teaching.  

The NIHR Research for Social Care (RfSC) call is inviting proposals for studies to address important social care questions relating to dementia. Call closes 13:00 on 19 October 2021

Cardiff University are offering a funded PhD studentship titled ‘Engaging care home residents in research: identification of barriers and facilitators and the development of an intervention to support residents in decision-making and advance planning for research (ENGAGE).’ The application deadline is 23 August 2021. The start date for the studentship is October 2021.

The British Geriatrics Society published a new report aimed at improving the quality of healthcare for care home residents. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on older people, with 35.6% of the 130,000 deaths in the UK occurring in people living in care homes. Many others suffered from worsening physical, mental and emotional health as a result of lockdowns and visiting restrictions. This new report sets out how care home staff and visiting healthcare professionals can work together to ensure high-quality healthcare is delivered for the more than 400,000 older people who live in care homes.

Could you make decisions on future health and social care research? Applications are now open for patients, carers and members of the public interested in joining the Health Services & Delivery Research (HS&DR) programme’s committee.

Can you spare 20 – 30 minutes to complete an online qualitative survey (answering in your own words) about the development and implementation of your care homes visiting policy for older people during Covid-19?

A national online survey about care home data collection and sharing (The DACHA Study) is open and looking for care homes to take part to have their say.

Liverpool Dementia & Ageing Research Forum, Wednesday 14th July, 1-2 pm. Registration through eventbrite.