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Best for You: Learning Network Event
Date: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Online
NIHR ARC Northwest London is hosting an event on the 23rd of May to share learning about the implementation and use of a Digital Hub that supports the mental health needs of children and young people. The Digital Hub is one element of Best for You, a programme that aims to deliver a new model of care to integrate young people’s mental health services within paediatric and emergency settings in northwest London.
The programme has been set up through partnerships between Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, West London NHS Trust, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and the CW+ charity. Best for You includes innovative services including a Day Service, a Young Peoples Centre, and a Community Partnership Programme as well as the Digital Hub.
The NIHR ARC Northwest London team is evaluating the programme with the aim of developing a model with the potential to be adopted in other parts of England/UK.
Evaluation Learning Network – Workshop #2: Conducting an evaluation
Date: Wednesday 24th May 2023
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Location: Online (MS Teams)
After an inaugural workshop series over the course of 2021 and 2022, the Evaluation Learning Network is back for its third year. We are delighted to announce the second of three NIHR ARC NWL Evaluation Learning Network Workshops of 2023. This year, we will once again cover how to plan for, conduct and effectively report and communicate the results of evaluations of healthcare innovations.
The Innovation & Evaluation Theme’s extensive experience in capacity building across the sector and suggestions about needs and aspirations of potential participants, have shaped the content and format of the Evaluation Learning Network.
The Evaluation Learning Network is intended to be a platform where participants can improve their evaluation expertise and receive support with their current evaluation projects.
The main objective of the Evaluation Learning Network will be to create an environment where you can:
improve your skills on evaluation,
access evaluation expertise provided by the NIHR ARC North-West London evaluation team and other partners,
access and exchange resources which can help you with your evaluation work,
share your experience and challenges on real projects with peers and experts.
Why is this important?
Innovation is an essential part of healthcare. Yet, even despite strong supporting evidence, not all new ideas, technologies or processes are widely used and adopted across the healthcare setting. Further, even when they are adopted, they may not have the desired effect, and may change the way healthcare is delivered in ways that were not anticipated.
A structured and well-planned evaluation can be an invaluable tool to better understand the effects and effectiveness of a newly implemented healthcare innovation. By providing a general roadmap for conducting evaluations, and supplementing this with real-world experiences from ongoing projects, we aim to provide our participants with the tools necessary to perform and conduct their own evaluations.
How will it work?
This is the second in a series of three workshops spread across the 2023 calendar year. This workshop will last 1 hour and cover topics pertaining to Conducting an evaluation, including:
Identifying information needs and data collection methods
How to ensure data quality
How to analyse and synthesize data
We will also welcome Laraib Ahmed as a guest speaker, who will share her experience and insights from conducting an evaluation of the Oral Health Programme at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
We will aim to make the workshop as interactive as possible (answering your questions and hearing about your evaluations throughout) to create a learning community environment.
Who is the workshop for?
We aim to target a wide range of professionals with an interest in the evaluation space, included but not limited to:
health professionals
improvement managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
programme/project managers
consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
researchers
academics
students
experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting.
If you are currently involved in an evaluation project and would like to share your experiences during one of the workshops, please reach out to us via the email address below.
Who are we?
We are a team of researchers based in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London. We are part of the Innovation & Evaluation Theme of the NIHR-funded ARC NWL. Our aim is to study and improve the uptake of evidence-based healthcare innovation through studying the implementation of new ideas in the healthcare sector.
Book your space
As places are limited, please confirm your attendance by completing this pre-course survey. Once you have completed the survey and your attendance has been confirmed, you will be sent an invite via MS Teams.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact Husa Aldossary.
Past Events:
Collaborative Learning Event:
Collaboration across health care communities: New relationships and alliances
Date: Wednesday 3 May 2023
Time: 9am - 2:30pm
Location: St Pauls Centre, Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PJ
Health and care systems continue to go through change and redesign - this affects work at every level. This event will explore how teams and individuals will need to adapt and adjust working relationships if the new Integrated Care Systems are to achieve collaborative working across the health and care communities.
Existing pressures have highlighted the need for a better connection across health and social care delivery. The lasting impacts of the pandemic, the crisis in social care and the development of new medical technologies all require new ways of working together. Structural redesign of systems needs to be accompanied by the development of new networks that deliver efficient care with kindness and compassion.
During the event, we will investigate the challenges of revising and developing the new networks essential to achieve effective integrated care in Northwest London, with improved patient care, population health and workforce morale.
Event overview:
What does change in health and care mean for the people working in the system?
Integrated Care Systems (ICS) aim to improve population health outcomes by developing local collaborations between teams and sectors. Effective integration between sectors, organisations and teams requires many people to work differently. Healthcare professionals both clinical and non-clinical will need to reassess and realign many of their working relationships and alliances. Such changes to working practices require trust between groups and the jettison of some traditional and historical ways of working. This is a difficult task at any time, but it is particularly challenging now at a time of considerable stress in the NHS.
This offers the opportunity to redesign care pathways tailored to the needs of the local populations, easing the navigation of care for patients and carers. For the changes to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and access to care, teams will need to be reconfigured and individuals will need to work differently. The difficulties of achieving this should not be underestimated, the event will explore this, and the role kindness and compassion have in supporting teams going through change.
Attendees will be asked to consider:
• what is known about how different groups in health care work together
• the types of support staff need to navigate change and realign their working practices
• the role for public health research in understanding how individuals can work together to become competent units
Event Schedule:
• 9:00am Event opens
• 9:00 - 9:45 Registration / Networking / Coffee / Fellowship Posters
• 9:45 – 9:50 Prof. Azeem Majeed Introduction and Welcome
• 9:50 – 10:05 Improvement Leader Fellowship Graduation
• 10:05 - 10:40 Keynote presentation - Dr Dominique Allwood
• 10:40 - 11:20 - Learning Lab with Dr Mable Nakubulwa and Dr Rowan Myron
• 11:20 - 11:45 COMFORT BREAK
• 11:45 - 12:45 Breakout session – Workshop with our research themes
• 12:50- 13:20 Panel discussion Chaired by Dr Fiona Moss
• 13:20 - 13:30 - Closing remarks - Prof. Azeem Majeed and Ganesh Sathyamoorthy
• 13:30 – 14:30 Lunch / Networking / Fellowship posters
*CPD Credits available for attendance.
Register:
Click here to visit the event microsite and to register your free place.
Community Research Champions - Health and Wellbeing Roadshows
NIHR ARC NWL, in partnership with local voluntary sector, Primary Care Networks and research organisations, aims to increase the diversity of people participating in research in NWL. The project will deliver 10 health roadshows within Brent and Hounslow, delivering key health and wellbeing support and checks.
Help create better healthcare for your community. Share stories and shape services by ensuring we understand the culture and needs of your community. Your health is in your hands.
To book your place for the Brent roadshows visit the CVS Bent website.
To get more information about the Hounslow roadshows contact juhi@ehcvs.org.uk or megha@ehcvs.org.uk
Upcoming Roadshows
Evaluation Learning Network – Workshop #1: Planning an evaluation
Date: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Location: Online (MS Teams)
After an inaugural workshop series over the course of 2021 and 2022, the Evaluation Learning Network is back for its third year. We are delighted to announce the first of three NIHR ARC NWL Evaluation Learning Network Workshops of 2023. This year, we will once again cover how to plan for, conduct and effectively report and communicate the results of evaluations of healthcare innovations.
The Innovation & Evaluation Theme’s extensive experience in capacity building across the sector and suggestions about needs and aspirations of potential participants, have shaped the content and format of the Evaluation Learning Network.
The Evaluation Learning Network is intended to be a platform where participants can improve their evaluation expertise and receive support with their current evaluation projects.
The main objective of the Evaluation Learning Network will be to create an environment where you can:
improve your skills on evaluation,
access evaluation expertise provided by the NIHR ARC North-West London evaluation team and other partners,
access and exchange resources which can help you with your evaluation work,
share your experience and challenges on real projects with peers and experts.
Why is this important?
Innovation is an essential part of healthcare. Yet, even despite strong supporting evidence, not all new ideas, technologies or processes are widely used and adopted across the healthcare setting. Further, even when they are adopted, they may not have the desired effect, and may change the way healthcare is delivered in ways that were not anticipated.
A structured and well-planned evaluation can be an invaluable tool to better understand the effects and effectiveness of a newly implemented healthcare innovation. By providing a general roadmap for conducting evaluations, and supplementing this with real-world experiences from ongoing projects, we aim to provide our participants with the tools necessary to perform and conduct their own evaluations.
How will it work?
This is the first in a series of three workshops spread across the 2023 calendar year. The first workshop will last 1 hour and cover topics pertaining to Planning an evaluation, including:
An introduction to complex and rapid evaluation in healthcare
Aid in establishing evaluation rationale and outcomes
Introduce programme theory and how it can be used in an evaluation
We will aim to make the workshop as interactive as possible to create a learning community environment. During the workshop you will have the opportunity to discuss your experience and challenges with evaluations with participants and ARC NWL experts.
Who is the workshop for?
We aim to target a wide range of professionals with an interest in the evaluation space, included but not limited to:
health professionals
improvement managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
programme/project managers
consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
researchers
academics
students
experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting.
If you are currently involved in an evaluation project and would like to share your experiences during one of the workshops, please reach out to us via the email address below.
Who are we?
We are a team of researchers based in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London. We are part of the Innovation & Evaluation Theme of the NIHR-funded ARC NWL. Our aim is to study and improve the uptake of evidence-based healthcare innovation through studying the implementation of new ideas in the healthcare sector.
Book your space
As places are limited, please confirm your attendance by completing this pre-course survey. Once you have completed the survey and your attendance has been confirmed, you will be sent an invite via MS Teams.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact Husa Aldossary at h.aldossary22@imperial.ac.uk.
Tweetchat: Our Journey Into AI
Date: Tuesday 15 November 2022
Time: 3pm
Location: ARC NWL Twitter
Join us next week for a live Tweetchat where we will discuss the initial findings from the participatory evaluation of a project co-created with public contributors onAI and Data Science.
This will be of interest to researchers, public contributors and PPI facilitators aiming to involve members of the public in AI and data science. We discuss the initial findings from the participatory evaluation (using creative methods) of the project that co-created with public contributors materials on AI and data science.
Follow and contribute questions using: #JourneyIntoAI
Associated Theme: Patient, Public, Community Engagement and Involvement
Evaluation Learning Network – Workshop #3: Reporting, Communication and Follow-up
Date: Tuesday 18th October 2022
Time: 12:30 – 13:30
Location: Online (MS Teams)
After an inaugural workshop series over the course of 2021, the Evaluation Learning Network is back for its second year. We are delighted to announce the final NIHR ARC NWL Evaluation Learning Network Workshops of 2022. This year, we will once again cover how to plan for, conduct and effectively report and communicate the results of evaluations of healthcare innovations.
The Innovation & Evaluation Theme’s extensive experience in capacity building across the sector and suggestions about needs and aspirations of potential participants have shaped the content and format of the Evaluation Learning Network.
The Evaluation Learning Network is intended to be a platform where participants can improve their evaluation expertise and receive support with their current evaluation projects.
The main objective of the Evaluation Learning Network will be to create an environment where you can:
improve your skills on evaluation
access evaluation expertise provided by the NIHR ARC North-West London evaluation team and other partners
access and exchange resources which can help you with your evaluation work
share your experience and challenges on real projects with peers and experts
Why is this important?
Innovation is an essential part of healthcare. Yet, even despite strong supporting evidence, not all new ideas, technologies or processes are widely used and adopted across the healthcare setting. Further, even when they are adopted, they may not have the desired effect, and may change the way healthcare is delivered in ways that were not anticipated.
A structured and well-planned evaluation can be an invaluable tool to better understand the effects and effectiveness of a newly implemented healthcare innovation. By providing a general roadmap for conducting evaluations, and supplementing this with real-world experiences from ongoing projects, we aim to provide our participants with the tools necessary to perform and conduct their own evaluations.
How will it work?
This is the third in a series of three workshops spread across the 2022 calendar year. This workshop will last 1 hour and cover topics pertaining to Reporting and Communication and Follow-up, including:
Consolidating results
Preparing and disseminating evaluation reports
Sharing findings and lessons learned
Using and following up on evaluations results
We will also welcome Dr Laura Lennox as a guest speaker, who will share her experience and insights from reporting and communicating the results of a recent evaluation she undertook.
We will aim to make the workshop as interactive as possible (answering your questions and hearing about your evaluations throughout) to create a learning community environment.
We will also plan to reserve some time at the end of the workshop to gather your feedback on the sessions you have attended throughout the year.
Who is the workshop for?
We aim to target a wide range of professionals with an interest in the evaluation space, included but not limited to:
health professionals
improvement managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
programme/project managers
consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
researchers
academics
students
experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting.
If you are currently involved in an evaluation project and would like to share your experiences during one of the workshops, please reach out to us via the email address below.
Who are we?
We are a team of researchers based in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London. We are part of the Innovation & Evaluation Theme of the NIHR-funded ARC NWL. Our aim is to study and improve the uptake of evidence-based healthcare innovation through studying the implementation of new ideas in the healthcare sector.
Book your space
As places are limited, please confirm your attendance by completing this pre-course survey. Once you have completed the survey and your attendance has been confirmed, you will be sent an invite via MS Teams.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact Mark Skopec at: mark.skopec17@imperial.ac.uk
Collaborative partnerships for healthier lives: Getting research into practice
Date: Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Time: 12:00 - 17:00
Location: Weston Hall, Ealing, London, W5 5RF
Lunch provided
Associated Theme: Collaborative Learning and Capacity Building
About the theme
Delivering centred patient-centred care and closing the translation gap in today’s health services, requires an understanding of care pathways and the impact of all roles “beyond the walls” of a single organisation.
Integrated care systems aim, through improved collaboration across teams and sectors, to deliver better outcomes for their populations. Patient and population outcomes are not determined by one person or one team, but through the quality of partnerships within the health and social care services that empower communities, the voices of patients and the public.
Effective collaboration between sectors, organisations, and communities requires, as well as organisational re-structuring, support for the many people in many teams whose way of working will change as collaboration becomes more effective. In developing a truly integrated organisation that reflects the interconnectedness of modern care delivery, relationships and responsibilities must be re-aligned across organisations and communities so that many people can work more collaboratively – and deliver better care and together be better prepared to adopt novel research findings.
It is now time for us to embrace this within health services research and explore the role we can play as facilitators and collaborators across the health and social care system.
Who is the event for?
Open to those who have an interest in translating evidence into practice and achieving improvements in health behaviours and population health, including but not limited to:
Patients/carers
GP’s/Practice Managers/Practice Nurses
NHS provider staff
Higher Education Institutions partners
NIHR Partners
Relevant third sector organisations/community champions
Local authority/ Social care partners/Public Health Directors and Commissioners
What will you gain?
Following the event, delegates will be able to:
Consider current partnership working within local health and social care in the context of research programmes and identify where collaboration across sectors could improve health delivery and outcomes
Identify current ways of working that might impede the implementation of health services research and where significant changes in practice might accelerate research translation
Consider how we actively coproduce and codesign with communities to accelerate the dissemination of health research into routine care at neighbourhood, place, and system levels
Reflect on how an understanding of collaborative practice might inform and improve the delivery of health services research and promote its importance to care
Find out more about what to expect by seeing what happened at our last event: 'Building Back Better'
AHSC & ARC NWL Joint Seminar Series: Happy healthy children: Implementing what we know
Happy healthy children: Implementing what we know
In collaboration with Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, we are pleased to announce our next webinar. The webinar will be co-presented by NIHR ARC NWL theme leads, Dr Dasha Nicholls and Professor Sonia Saxena.
Date: Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Time: 12:00 - 13.00
Location: Online via Zoom
Associated Themes: Child Population Health & Multimorbidity and Mental Health
Dr Dasha Nicholls, Clinical Reader in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Imperial College and Multimorbidity and Mental Health Theme Lead at NIHR ARC NWL, will talk about her work on mental health conditions in children and young people.
Professor Sonia Saxena, Professor of Primary Care, Director of the Imperial Child Health Unit at the School of Public Health and Child Population Health Theme Lead at NIHR ARC NWL, will discuss her work on how primary care can improve health across childhood.
The Climate Crisis and Mental Health: A Special Issue of the International Review of Psychiatry
Date: Tuesday 27 September 2022
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Location: Online (MS Teams)
Cost: Free
Associated Themes: Ethnicity & Health Unit and Multimorbidity and Mental Health
Signs of climate breakdown are evident across the globe. From wildfires in the US and Europe to heatwaves in India and Pakistan and heavy rainfall in the UK, record-breaking extreme weather events are occurring in every continent and increasing in frequency and intensity. What is unexpected, however, is the speed with which global warming even at the current level of 1C is resulting in climate chaos. Contrary to earlier scientific forecasts that temperatures would rise to over 40C by 2050 in the UK, this record has already been reached by the summer of 2022, prompting leading climate scientists to warn that the future is already here. We are informed that climate breakdown is inevitable and global leaders acknowledge that they are scared, as avoiding the most catastrophic outcomes is the best we can now do.
The fact that climate change is the biggest threat to global public health was recognised more than a decade ago but carbon emissions have simply continued to increase. Estimations of the direct health effects of aspects of climate change such as heat stress, floods, air pollution, food insecurity and the spread of vector-borne disease demonstrate that the global burden of morbidity and mortality is also increasing steeply on every continent. But, despite the recognition that the mental health toll is likely to be as severe, few efforts have been made to quantify this burden, study its extended impact on society, forecast its effects on socio-economic trends of the future or to explore ways by which the negative impacts could be addressed and hope could be harnessed to ensure the best societal outcomes for the future. This collection of research studies, commentaries and analyses attempts to remedy this gap, as it shines a light on this hitherto neglected area of the mental health and wellbeing impacts of climate change.
Join the guest editor Professor Mala Rao (Imperia l College London), Dr Adrian James (President, Royal College Psychiatrists) and authors from around the world for a one-hour webinar to mark the launch of a special issue of the International Review of Psychiatry on the climate crisis and mental health.
Save the date for the NIHR ARCs Implementation Workshop Series starting 19th September 2022
NIHR ARC Implementation Workshop Series - Save the Date Flyer.pdfClick above flyer to register for individual workshops available
Evaluation Learning Network – Workshop #2: Conducting an evaluation
Date: Tuesday 19 July 2022
Time: 12:30 – 13:30
Location: Online (MS Teams)
After an inaugural workshop series over the course of 2021, the Evaluation Learning Network is back for its second year. We are delighted to announce the second of three NIHR ARC NWL Evaluation Learning Network Workshops of 2022. This year, we will once again cover how to plan for, conduct and effectively report and communicate the results of evaluations of healthcare innovations.
The Innovation & Evaluation Theme’s extensive experience in capacity building across the sector and suggestions about needs and aspirations of potential participants, have shaped the content and format of the Evaluation Learning Network.
The Evaluation Learning Network is intended to be a platform where participants can improve their evaluation expertise and receive support with their current evaluation projects.
The main objective of the Evaluation Learning Network will be to create an environment where you can:
improve your skills on evaluation
access evaluation expertise provided by the NIHR ARC North-West London evaluation team and other partners
access and exchange resources which can help you with your evaluation work
share your experience and challenges on real projects with peers and experts
Why is this important?
Innovation is an essential part of healthcare. Yet, even despite strong supporting evidence, not all new ideas, technologies or processes are widely used and adopted across the healthcare setting. Further, even when they are adopted, they may not have the desired effect, and may change the way healthcare is delivered in ways that were not anticipated.
A structured and well-planned evaluation can be an invaluable tool to better understand the effects and effectiveness of a newly implemented healthcare innovation. By providing a general roadmap for conducting evaluations, and supplementing this with real-world experiences from ongoing projects, we aim to provide our participants with the tools necessary to perform and conduct their own evaluations.
How will it work?
This is the second in a series of three workshops spread across the 2022 calendar year. This workshop will last 1 hour and cover topics pertaining to Conducting an evaluation, including:
Identifying information needs and data collection methods
How to ensure data quality
How to analyse and synthesize data
We will also welcome Laraib Ahmed as a guest speaker, who will share her experience and insights from conducting an evaluation of the Oral Health Programme at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
We will aim to make the workshop as interactive as possible (answering your questions and hearing about your evaluations throughout) to create a learning community environment.
Who is the workshop for?
We aim to target a wide range of professionals with an interest in the evaluation space, included but not limited to:
health professionals
improvement managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
programme/project managers
consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
researchers
academics
students
experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting
If you are currently involved in an evaluation project and would like to share your experiences during one of the workshops, please reach out to us via the email address below.
Who are we?
We are a team of researchers based in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London. We are part of the Innovation & Evaluation Theme of the NIHR-funded ARC NWL. Our aim is to study and improve the uptake of evidence-based healthcare innovation through studying the implementation of new ideas in the healthcare sector.
Book your space
As places are limited, please confirm your attendance by completing this pre-course survey.
Once you have completed the survey and your attendance has been confirmed, you will be sent an invite via MS Teams.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact Mark Skopec at mark.skopec17@imperial.ac.uk
Welcoming and Valuing International Students
Date: 27 June 2022
Time: 13:00 14:00 BST
Location: Online
Background
International Medical Graduates (IMGs) have served the NHS since its inception. However, there has not been a standardised induction programme to enable IMGs to be integrated into NHS working and living in the UK. Meanwhile, substantial research evidence has become available to demonstrate the benefits of a comprehensive induction not only for the wellbeing and performance of IMGS but also to patient safety and the delivery of high-quality care.
A comprehensive induction programme has been in development since 2019 and is now ready to be implemented across NHS Trusts. The aim is to formally launch the induction programme on 27 June 2022.
A webinar is planned on the day, 27th June 2022 at 13:00 to 14:00. The aim of the webinar is to mark a key milestone in welcoming and valuing IMGs and disseminating information about the induction programme. The induction programme is testimony to the commitment, collaboration, and cooperation of all the appropriate NHS organisations, including NHSEI, HEE, BMA, GMC, and MPS. The launch is an opportunity to celebrate the collaboration and reflect on the need for the continuing partnership to support IMGs throughout their careers.
It is likely that Trusts will vary in the quality of induction they currently offer. But from the launch date, Trusts will be expected to plan a roadmap to achieve and deliver all aspects of the induction recommended in the guidance.
What are the objectives?
The purpose of this webinar is to:
Inform all interested NHS staff of the launch and describe the programme and how it may be delivered
Respond to questions from the participants
Encourage all staff to contribute formally or informally to welcoming and valuing IMGs into the NHS and to explain the key roles of NHS organisations to deliver the programme
Who is the intended audience?
The intended audience for the webinar includes, but is not limited to:
IMGs
All medical staff in NHS Trusts
Educational/Clinical Supervisors
Postgraduate Medical Education Departments (Director of Medical Education & Medical Education Managers)
HR Managers
Medical Directors & Responsible Officers
HEE Regional Associate Deans across UK
GMC Employer Liaison Advisers across UK
Medical Staffing Teams in NHS Trusts
GPs
Staff of People Directorates
Policy and system leaders
BMA and MPS policy teams
NIHR ARC NWL Collaborative Learning Event - ‘Road to Recovery: Working differently for a better future’
Date: 11 May 2022
Time: 12:00 – 17:00
Venue: St Paul’s Centre, Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PJ
Registrations are now open for our Collaborative Learning Event which will be held 11 May at St Paul’s Centre (Queen Caroline Street, W6 9PJ).
This will be our first in-person Collaborative Learning Event in nearly three years, and since then Covid has had a significant impact on health and social care services. We are inviting you to consider, how will you work differently to support the health and social care sectors as we recover from Covid?
We look forward to engaging with stakeholders, both new and old, to exemplify how we are working differently to ‘Build Back Better’. There will be interactive opportunities to hear about our work and engage with it. We are excited to come together and welcome you to make plans for progress, engage with you to guide and improve our shared learning.
About the theme
Covid has had a devastating impact on health and social care services, from waiting times to the psychological impact on frontline professionals. In September 2021, the UK Government released a new plan for health and social care.1 This included plans to tackle the Covid backlogs and significant investments to reform adult social care. As we look to recover from
the pandemic, we need to consider how we can work together to ‘Build Back Better’ with a focus on high quality health and social care services and improving population health. In our Collaborative Learning Event, we will explore the following questions:
· What are the priorities and risks for the health and social care systems in the recovery from Covid?
· What do we need to do differently to ensure that the health and social care systems can bounce back from the pandemic?
· How can we support the health and social care systems to work differently to respond to and meet the needs of local populations?
Who is the event for?
Open to those who have an interest in translating evidence into practice and achieving improvements in health behaviours and population health, including but not limited to:
· Patients/carers
· GP’s/Practice Managers/Practice Nurses
· NHS provider staff
· Higher Education Institutions partners
· NIHR Partners
· Relevant third sector organisations/community champions
· Local authority/ Social care partners/Public Health Directors and Commissioners
Book a space
For more information and to book your place: https://www.eventsforce.net/eventage/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=99595&eventID=195&CSPCHD=0000010000002fXKuRQdeGf$zamhlRzwTq1B1FnB5YI0vZ1teg
If you have any questions regarding the event, please do not hesitate to contact us at nihr.arc@imperial.ac.uk
Evaluation Learning Network – Workshop #1: Planning an evaluation
How to plan for, conduct and effectively report and communicate the results of evaluations of healthcare innovations.
Date: Thursday 7 April 2022
Time: 12:30 – 13:30
Location: Online (MS Teams)
Time: 12:30 – 13:30
Location: Online (MS Teams)
After an inaugural workshop series over the course of 2021, the Evaluation Learning Network is back for its second year. We are delighted to announce the first of three NIHR ARC NWL Evaluation Learning Network Workshops of 2022.
The NIHR ARC NWL Innovation & Evaluation Theme’s extensive experience in capacity building across the sector and suggestions about needs and aspirations of potential participants, have shaped the content and format of the Evaluation Learning Network.
The Evaluation Learning Network is intended to be a platform where participants can improve their evaluation expertise and receive support with their current evaluation projects.
The main objective of the Evaluation Learning Network will be to create an environment where you can:
improve your evaluation skills
access evaluation expertise provided by the NIHR ARC North-West London evaluation team and other partners
access and exchange resources which can help you with your evaluation work
share your experience and challenges on real projects with peers and experts
Why is this important?
Innovation is an essential part of healthcare. Yet, even despite strong supporting evidence, not all new ideas, technologies or processes are widely used and adopted across the healthcare setting. Further, even when they are adopted, they may not have the desired effect, and may change the way healthcare is delivered in ways that were not anticipated.
A structured and well-planned evaluation can be an invaluable tool to better understand the effects and effectiveness of a newly implemented healthcare innovation. By providing a general roadmap for conducting evaluations, and supplementing this with real-world experiences from ongoing projects, we aim to provide our participants with the tools necessary to perform and conduct their own evaluations.
How will it work?
This is the first in a series of three workshops spread across the 2022 calendar year. The first workshop will last 1 hour and cover topics pertaining to Planning an evaluation, including:
An introduction to complex and rapid evaluation in healthcare
Aid in establishing evaluation rationale and outcomes
Introduce programme theory and how it can be used in an evaluation
We will aim to make the workshop as interactive as possible (answering your questions and hearing about your evaluations throughout) to create a learning community environment. During the workshop we will conduct some practical exercises on your evaluations so that you can leave the workshop with some work done.
Who is the workshop for?
We aim to target a wide range of professionals with an interest in the evaluation space, including but not limited to:
Health professionals
Improvement Managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
Programme/Project Managers
Consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
Researchers
Academics
Students
Experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting
If you are currently involved in an evaluation project and would like to share your experiences during one of the workshops, please reach out to us via the email address below.
Who are we?
We are a team of researchers based in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London. We are part of the Innovation & Evaluation Theme of the NIHR-funded ARC NWL. Our aim is to study and improve the uptake of evidence-based healthcare innovation through studying the implementation of new ideas in the healthcare sector.
Book your space
As places are limited please confirm your attendance by completing this pre-course survey.
Once you have completed the survey and your attendance has been confirmed, you will be sent an invite via MS Teams.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact Mark Skopec: mark.skopec17@imperial.ac.uk
Which women in Northwest London are getting their flu vaccines in pregnancy? Sharing our research findings
A workshop with NIHR ARC Northwest London to help understand how we can best communicate the findings of our research into flu vaccination during pregnancy.
Date: Wednesday 19 January 2022
Time: 10:30-11:30am
Location: Online (via Zoom)
We would like to invite you to an online Zoom meeting about flu vaccines for pregnant women.
Parents and families in Northwest London and also health and social care professionals who may work with families in Northwest London are invited.
We are a team of researchers at Imperial College London and we have recently done a study looking at which pregnant women are getting their flu vaccine in Northwest London. We want to get feedback on how we can make sure our research makes a difference to the health and care of women and their babies in Northwest London.
The purpose of this work is to improve health and care for women and their children living in Northwest London, and we’d like to speak with members of the public, and those working with pregnant women, to receive input from our community.
Why is this important?
In the UK, like other countries, pregnant women are advised to be vaccinated against flu. This is because pregnant women are at higher risk of being seriously ill if they get flu. The vaccine is a safe and effective way to protect women and their unborn babies.
We are researchers from Imperial College London and we are doing research into which pregnant women in Northwest London get the flu vaccine and which don’t. We want to improve healthcare for women in Northwest London and increase the number of women who get protected against flu.
How will it work?
You can help by joining our event will be online using Zoom. We will introduce the issue, share our findings, and give you an opportunity to feed back to us on how we might best communicate these findings to support improvement in health and care for women in Northwest London and beyond.
Some questions you might like to think about during the session:
What do you understand about our research?
Which parts make sense to you, and which are confusing?
What’s missing, and are there any unnecessary parts?
Who are we?
A group of researchers based at Imperial College London and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Our Applied Research Collaboration (ARC), Northwest London, is a programme of research aiming to improve health and care through applied health research.
Book you space
We would be delighted if you are able to attend – please let us know if you will be attending by emailing Gloria Ihenetu on: g.ihenetu@imperial.ac.uk, with subject 'Flu vaccines in pregnancy workshop'.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch on the above email address.
NIHR ARC Northwest London Evaluation Learning Network Workshop
Date: 27 October 2021 from (12:30 – 13:30)
Location: MS Teams
Date: 27 October 2021 from (12:30 – 13:30)
Location: MS Teams
Our Innovation and Evaluation Team invite you to the next and final ARC North-west London Evaluation Learning Network Workshop.
The Evaluation Learning Network is a platform where participants can improve their evaluation expertise and receive support with their current evaluation projects. After previously covering Conducting the Evaluation, our final workshop will focus on Reporting and Communication and follow-up.
The 1-hour workshop will discuss:
Consolidating results
Preparing and disseminating evaluation reports
Sharing findings and lessons learned
Using and following up on evaluation results
We will have several open-ended questions to prompt discussion, but if you have anything specific that you wish to feedback to us, please be prepared to do so at the meeting. Or, if you would prefer, simply email mark.skopec17@imperial.ac.uk your comments and suggestions.
Feel free to share this invitation with people you think might be interested, such as:
Health professionals and improvement managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
Programme/ project managers, consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
Researchers, academics, and experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting
Service users or members of the public interested in learning more about evaluation in healthcare
We will reserve some time at the end of the workshop to gather your feedback on the sessions you have attended throughout the year. As we would like to continue holding these sessions in the future, your comments and suggestions will be invaluable to improving this offering going forward.
> Book your place: https://mskopec.aidaform.com/evaluation-and-learning-network-pre-registration-form-copy
As places are limited, please confirm your attendance as soon as possible using this pre-registration link. You will then receive a confirmation email and calendar invite for the meeting.
NIHR ARC NWL Collaborative Learning Event – 'Making a difference'
Date: 2 November 2021
Time: 13:30 - 16:30
Location: Online
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
Unfortunately, due to the continuing rise of COVID-19 cases and hospital admissions we have taken the decision to run the NIHR ARC NWL Learning Event, scheduled for 2 November, online. We were very much looking forward to welcoming you all to the St Paul's Centre for our first gathering in 2 years but feel it would just not be appropriate to do so at this time. We will look to meet in person in Spring 2022.
If you have already registered for the meeting, we will be in touch with details of the online meeting which will follow the same programme and timings as originally planned with the first session beginning at 1330hrs.
The full programme can be viewed here.
If you have not yet registered there is still time to do so. Please book your place by registering now.
Registration is now open for the NIHR ARC NWL Learning Event.
We are looking forward to welcoming our friends and colleagues to an online virtual Collaborative Learning Event.
> Book your place here: https://www.eventsforce.net/arcnwl21
As always, you will hear from a range of inspirational speakers and members of the NIHR ARC NWL Themes about the work they are doing in applied health research.
We look forward to seeing you virtually at the NIHR ARC NWL Collaboritive Learning Event.
ARC NWL's June Evaluation Learning Network
Welcoming all clinicians, researchers or NHS managers based in Northwest London who are evaluating projects!
If you extra support with your ongoing evaluation projects come and join us for our Evaluation Learning Network workshop.
Delivered by the Innovation and Evaluation Theme at ARC NWL
30th June 2021 from 12:30 to 13:30 via Microsoft Teams
NIHR ARC NWL Invites You to Register for our online learning event taking place on Tuesday 20 April 2021. The event will run from 1330hrs to 1630hrs with additional time for networking in virtual breakout rooms from 1245hrs - 1330hrs and 1630hrs – 1715hrs.
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London (NIHR ARC NWL), is part of the NIHR and launched on the 1st of October 2019, as a local collaborative programme in healthcare improvement, to tackle the biggest healthcare challenges of this generation.
The NIHR ARC NWL will undertake high-quality applied health and care research and work across local health and care systems to close the second translational gap by supporting implementation of research and will work collectively with ARCs in other parts of England to ensure national impact.
The programme will be conducted via four research themes and three cross-cutting themes with the overarching goal to: build sustainable infrastructure for continual improvement in health behaviours and population health, and a reduction in health inequalities for the people of north west London.
This online event will welcome attendees old and new involved with the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration for Northwest London. Attendees will have an opportunity to hear from our Themes and from our plenary speakers on ‘Working together to improve healthcare’.
The NIHR ARC NWL Spring Learning Event: Working together to improve healthcare, has been approved by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom for 3 category 1 (external) CPD credit(s). Activity code: 135103.
More information on the event and the speakers can be found at https://www.eventsforce.net/arcnwl2021
Tweet and follow on the day via our hashtag: #ARCeventNWL @ARC_NWL
Download presentations from the day
1330_Welcome and introduction_Azeem.pdf1345_working together_primarycare_Mateen.pdf1405_working together acutecare_Lucy.pdfNIHR ARC NWL's Evaluation Learning Network
Are you a clinician, researcher or NHS manager based in Northwest London doing evaluations?
Do you extra support with your ongoing evaluation projects?
Come and join the Evaluation Learning Network workshop delivered by the Innovation and Evaluation Theme at ARC NWL
17 March 2021 from 12:30 to 13:30 via Microsoft Teams
NIHR ARC NWL's Evaluation Learning Network
Are you a clinician, researcher or NHS manager based in Northwest London doing evaluations?
Do you extra support with your ongoing evaluation projects?
Come and join the Evaluation Learning Network workshop delivered by the Innovation and Evaluation Theme at ARC NWL.
2 December 2020 12:30 – 13:30
The next Evaluation Learning network workshop will focus on an introduction to evaluation stages, main challenges in healthcare and tips on improving evaluation plans for improvement projects.
NIHR ARC NWL invites you to register for our online learning event
Thursday 19 November 2020 from 13.30 – 16.30
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London (NIHR ARC NWL), is part of the NIHR and launched on the 1st of October 2019, as a local collaborative programme in healthcare improvement, to tackle the biggest healthcare challenges of this generation.
The NIHR ARC NWL will undertake high-quality applied health and care research and work across local health and care systems to close the second translational gap by supporting implementation of research and will work collectively with ARCs in other parts of England to ensure national impact.
The programme will be conducted via four research themes and three cross-cutting themes with the overarching goal to - build sustainable infrastructure for continual improvement in health behaviours and population health, and a reduction in health inequalities for the people of north west London.
This online event will welcome delegates old and new involved with the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration for Northwest London. Delegates will have an opportunity to hear from our Themes and from our plenary speakers on ‘Enabling person centred care’ and ‘Personalising care’. You will also be able to participate in a panel discussion on ‘Health and wellbeing: Making it easy to get involved'.
Download presentations from the day
Child Population Health Theme.pdfCommunity Voices_Conversations for change_Samira Ben Omar.pdfCollaborative Learning and Capacity Building Theme.pdfDigital Health Theme.pdfInnovation and Evaluation Theme.pdfMultimorbidity Theme.pdfNW London NIHR ARC Nov 2020_Azeem Majeed.pdfPersonalising care through health coaching approaches_Arti Maini.pdfRe-live the day - follow our hashtag to keep the conversation going.
#ARCeventNWL
NIHR ARC Cardiovascular Disease meeting
NIHR ARC NWL invites you to join us at our Cardiovascular Disease Meeting
7 February 2020 9.30 – 16.00
Friends House, 173 - 177 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Agenda_NIHR ARC CVD meeting 30-01-2020.docx
Launch Event
National Institute for Health Research
Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London
13 November 2019 (12.30 – 16.30 )
St.Paul’s Centre, Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PJ
Presentations from the day:
Welcome and Introduction to NIHR ARC NWL
Professor Azeem Majeed - Director, NIHR ARC NWL
Introduction to the NIHR ARC Themes
Child population Health
Digital Health
Multi-morbidity and frailty
Innovation and evaluation
Patient, Public, community engagement
Collaborative learning and capacity building
Information and intelligence
Mental Health
Health Economics
