Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent and Shropshire, Telford, and Wrekin Health and Care Research Partnership (SSHERPa)
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To bring together news, share information, and communications, we bring you a bi-monthly SSHERPa newsletter In this Summer 2024 edition, we bring you news about local Research and Innovation (R&I) initiatives, events, and much more...
SHOUTING ABOUT SSHERPa
SSHERPa recently presented to the Clinical Research Network (CRN) Partnership Board to provide highlights, updates, and headlines of activity to date including, the Research Engagement Network (REN), Governance workstream, and examples of how SSHERPa is bringing research and innovation collaboration to life. Explore the presentation slides (click right to view)
PARTNERS PAGE REQUEST
As part of the SSHERPa communications workstream, we want to hear more about our SSHERPa partners. We have developed a short survey to collect information on your organisation - this information will be used to design and develop our partner’s page in the new SSHERPa brochure So tell us a bit more about your organisation here
SSHERPA X NHS R&D FORUM CONFERENCE
SSHERPA was selected as a Breakout session at the NHS R&D Forum Conference RDF2024, held in Celtic Manor, Cardiff 12-14 May Helen Duffy and Ruth Lambley-Burke (pictured below) presented a breakout session of “ Embedding Research into an Integrated Care System (ICS) - the SSHERPa experience so far” The conference was attended by over 850 colleagues, and the breakout was well received In the breakout room, there were lots of discussions around the concept of a 'joint
research office', the conversations were truly open and honest and it became clear that 'joint' meant either someone taking a lead role or, as in the case of SSHERPa, sharing best practice, or simplifying documentation and aligning processes.
SSHERPa seemed to be very well received and it's clear nationally there are very different models in place across the 42 Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), with some having no frameworks in place for R&I
DRAGONS’ DEN AT COMBINED
The R&D team at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust recently organised their fourth Dragons’ Den event. Dragons’ Den 2024, saw a range of ideas and innovations presented A panel, made up of Trust Executives, the R&D Director and a peer support worker, listened to eight pitches from Trust staff, which included sustainable ideas to promote well-being such as creating communications cha l d h i facilities, creating digital solutions for Neuropsychology services, exploring initiatives in Clinical Health Psychology to tackle health inequalities, and creating preventative support for carers within Learning Disability services
MPFT R&I CONFERENCE 2024
MPFT hosted their 2024 Research and Innovation Conference which provided fantastic opportunities for everyone to discover more about research and innovation across a range of topics such as mental health, physical health, social care, public health, and engagement.
The event received fantastic feedback such as “ it was motivating to see the positives that can come from engaging with research - both for our staff and our communities”
Click the video (left) to watch the highlights and feedback from the day!
HEALTH INNOVATION NETWORK
SSHERPa was delighted to welcome Tim Jones, Chief Officer, to a recent SSHERPa R&I Committee (in common) Tim shared the forward vision for the Health Innovation West Midlands (HIWM), which replaced the Academic Health Science Networks, which aims to focus on the discovery, and development, deployment of innovations at scale. Innovations should drive improvement in health and care, reduce health inequalities, and be able to be deployed at scale HIWM are keen to work with SSHERPa partners to understand the need for support for innovation.
INNOVATION SUMMIT 2024
Further to the recent SSHERPa R&I Committee, plans are underway to bring an Innovation Summit to life in October 2024 We want this to meet you needs - the aim would be to understand what support you need to turn ideas into project, generate evidence for impact and then support scale We want to hear from your on what topics of interest you would like to see or any innovations you would like to share Please let us by contacting the SSHERPa email: SSHERPa@mpft.nhs.uk
HEALTH RESEARCH FOR ALL
Through REN funding, a private Facebook group for members of the public called “Health Research for All” has been created
A collaboration between local universities, the Voluntary Sector, and Charities, the group aims to recruit research study participants, promote Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement (PPIE), and disseminate local research Click the poster (left) for more!
THE LINK GROUP
The Link Group work together with healthcare professionals and researchers to try and speed up the time it takes for research to be used to treat people This research can be for both physical and mental health conditions, for example; back pain; osteoarthritis; pain; anxiety; depression; low mood; and going to work with health conditions. Click the poster (right) for more!
We would love to hear suggestions on what to include in your bi-monthly SSHERPa newsletter We would like to encourage you to share information about events, good practice, collaborations, bids, and news stories from your organisation.
If there is anything you would like to see or add to the next edition, please share via the SSHERPa email SSHERPa@mpft.nhs.uk, before the 2nd of July 2024 for inclusion in the July edition.
CONTACTS
t to hear about how you can get SSHERPa, please contact:
HERPa@mpft.nhs.uk
