Building the evidencebase: support and engagement Michael Bowdery Senior Project Manager Wales Offic

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Building the evidence-basesupport and
engagementMichael Bowdery Senior Project
ManagerWales Office of Research and Development
for Health and Social Care
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Objectives of this presentation

• To explain to you some of the aims and functions
  of WORD
• To inform you of opportunities through WORDs
  work programme for you to engage in activities to
  support your research and evaluation needs

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The need for research and evaluation

• Research and evaluation can- inform activity-
  identify gaps in knowledge- allow you to monitor
  and evaluate activity
• All those here today health/social care
  professionals, practitioners, managers, policy
  makers, researchers, patients, can benefit from
  research and evaluation

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WORDs remit

• The Wales Office of Research and Development for
• Health and Social Care (WORD) is a branch of the
  Strategy
• Unit in the Welsh Assembly Governments
  Department of
• Health and Social Services.
• The strategic aim of WORD is to support the
  generation of
• high-quality evidence to underpin policy and
  practice in health
• and social care in Wales, for the benefit of
  patients and the
• public.

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• To meet this aim, WORD develops, in consultation
  with
• partners, policy on research and development to
  reflect the
• health and social care priorities of the Welsh
  Assembly
• Government.
• WORD also commissions and directly funds research
  and
• development activity and contract manages
  projects and
• initiatives to ensure that the highest standards
  are met.

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Research Funding Scheme (RFS) aims

• To promote research and evaluation activityin
  health and social care in Wales
• To assist career researchers in Wales
• To support policy development in priority areas

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RFS priority areas

• Prevention and early intervention
• Chronic conditions management / Integrated
  management of complex care
• Service organisation and delivery

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RFS eligibility

• You must be a career researcher
• You must be based in Wales
• You may work for a voluntary, public or private
  sector organisation

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RFS key information

• Annual call for proposals (early Spring)
• Up to 2.7m available for current call
• Separate health and social care strands
• Projects normally completed within 24 months
• Applicants will need to demonstrate relevance to
  priority areas, scientific quality, and value for
  money
• Studentship strand introduced in current call (9
  awarded to date)

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AWARD

• A multi-disciplinary network of academics working
  to improve health and social care provision in
  Wales through high-quality research
• Regional structure
• North (Catherine Robinson)
• Mid and West (Helen Snooks)
• South-East (Michael Shepherd)

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What does AWARD do?

• develops and undertakes high-quality
  collaborative research in health and social care
• provides specialist skills and support in project
  design, analysis and dissemination
• provides targeted post-graduate level training
• works with the Welsh Assembly Government to carry
  out research to inform policy development

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Examples of policy studies (1)

• 26 studies in first four years
• Year 1 Policy for Health and Social Care Area
  Wide Interventions Manual for Evaluation
  (PHAIME2)
• Year 2 A process evaluation and protocol for the
  future evaluation of the effectiveness of Book
  Prescription Wales
• Year 3 Strategy for Older People in Wales An
  Interim Review and Proposal for Further Research

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Examples of policy studies (2)

• Year 4 Understanding how the public chooses to
  make use of unscheduled care services
• Year 4 The causes of excess winter deaths in
  Wales and the potential to reduce them through
  changes to the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme
• And of course
• Years 3 and 4 Chronic Conditions Management
  Framework for Research and Evaluation

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Contact AWARD

• Websitewww.awardresearch.org.uk
• E-mailcontact_at_awardresearch.org.uk
• Telephone[phone]
• Post FREEPOST AWARD

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Clinical Research Collaboration for Wales (CRC
Cymru)

• A new research and development infrastructure for
  Wales (distinctively Welsh but some overlap and
  collaboration with the UK Clinical Research
  Network)
• UKCRC is a partnership with the shared goal of
  establishing the UK as a world leader in clinical
  research by harnessing the power of the NHS
• Designed to combat
• - decline in research infrastructure
• - decline in the number of clinical academics
• - delays to research caused by multiple
  regulatory and governance hurdles

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Clinical Research Collaboration for Wales (CRC
Cymru)

• CRC Cymru will
• increase the quality and quantity of research
  activity in Wales, especially large-scale
  multi-centre trials
• improve the income generating powers of the
  research community from both commercial and
  non-commercial sources
• allow Wales to take advantage of opportunities
  offered by the UKCRC

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CRC Cymru elements

• 10 thematic research networks (including cancer)
• Co-ordinating Centre (CRC Cymru CC)
• 4 infrastructure support services
• Health Information Research Unit (HIRU)
• Academic research network (AWARD)
• 3 Trials Units

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Thematic research networks

• The creative hubs of the infrastructure
• Academic/service collaborations
• Identified through two stage competitive
  application
• All Wales multi-sector multi-disciplinary
• Good research track record with viable plans
• All are developing research portfolios
• Research Development Group structures
• Will link closely with relevant English, Scottish
  and Northern Irish Networks where appropriate

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Thematic Research Networks (1)

• Cancer(Professor Tim Maughan, Velindre NHS
  Trust)
• Children and young people (Catriona Williams,
  Children in Wales)
• Dementias and neurodegenerative diseases
  (Professor Bob Woods, University of Wales
  Bangor)
• Diabetes (Professor David Owens, Cardiff
  University)
• Emergency and unplanned care (Professor Helen
  Snooks, University of Wales Swansea)

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Thematic Research Networks (2)

• Epilepsy (Professor Mark Rees, University of
  Wales Swansea)
• Learning disabilities and autism (Professor
  David Felce, Cardiff University)
• Mental health (Professor Keith Lloyd, University
  of Wales Swansea)
• Older people and ageing (Professor Judith
  Phillips / Dr. Sue Lambert, University of Wales
  Swansea)
• Public health improvement (Professor Laurence
  Moore, Cardiff University)

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The spectrum of research that is relevant to us
is broad...

• basic and applied biomedical science
• social science
• translational research (experimental medicine
  first into human studies)
• clinical research, including studies with
  industry
• health technology assessment (clinical and cost
  effectiveness of interventions in healthcare)
• service delivery and organisation
• epidemiology and public health
• policy research

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and the methodologies are many

• quantitative RCTs interrupted time series
  cluster randomised trials
• quasi-experimental
• observational qualitative action research
  surveys
• health technology assessment
• secondary research systematic reviews
• operational research modelling the future
• analysis of routinely collected data

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Contact details

• For further enquiries please contact
• Michael Bowdery
• Wales Office of Research and Developmentfor
  Health and Social Care
• Welsh Assembly Government
• Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NQ
• Tel [phone]
• E-mail Michael.Bowdery_at_wales.gsi.gov.uk
• Website www.word.wales.gov.uk