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Date: Wednesday 11th October 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 third 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 third in a series of three workshops spread across the 2023 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 be welcoming Dr Laura Lennox and Dr Natasha Dsouza as guest speakers, who will share their experiences and insights from reporting and communicating the results of recent evaluations they 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. 

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.

NIHR ARC NWL and the Imperial College AHSC invites you to join us for our joint Webinar on Reverse Innovation in the NHS; a case study on Community Health and Wellbeing

Date: Wednesday 6th September 2023

Time: 12:00 - 13:00

Location: Online via Zoom webinar

Reverse innovation is an innovation developed in a low or middle-income country which is then adopted by a high-income country. It has been identified as a key emerging trend in global health systems, as these innovations do more with less and challenge a more traditional knowledge flow from rich to poor countries. In this seminar, two leading experts will discuss their research, focusing on a case study from Brazil, and answer your questions.

Speakers on the day:

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.

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.

Event hashtag:
#CollaborativeCommunities

Register:

Click here to visit the event microsite and to register your free place.

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.

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

Associated Theme: Innovation and Evaluation

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'

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.

To join the event, please register here – the event is free and all are welcome.

Click above flyer to register for individual workshops available

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
  
  
  

To register: https://imginductionregister.virtualstudiolive.com/events/welcoming-and-valuing-international-medical-graduates/registration 

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)

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.