Research User Group Newsletter Keele University RUG Summer newsletter 2018 | Page 16

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ANNUAL EVENT
ANNUAL EVENT
Improving
Implementation Getting our audiences
involved...
Following a morning focussed
on how patient power is needed
to improve implementation, the
afternoon explored Keele’s
success in this, through the
JIGSAW-E (osteoarthritis)
and STarT Back (back pain)
implementation projects. It wouldn’t be a Research Institute event without
some audience participation.
Project Manager Nicki Evans and
(LINK) member John Murphy
showcased the role of Patient
Champions in the European wide
(JIGSAW-E).
The progress of (STarT) was
presented in a creative and
engaging ‘Mastermind’ format which
was popular with the audience.
This was presented by Laura
Campbell (Knowledge Broker)
and Kay Stevenson (a Consultant
Physiotherapist and NIHR
Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow).
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Helen Duffy, NHS Partnerships and Engagement
Manager, was on hand to facilitate. Delegates were
asked to think about how they, as an individual,
could improve research implementation.
Enthusiasm for improving
healthcare
The consensus around the room was that using
networks, exploiting communication methods such as
the media, improving clinician’s mind-sets, educating
healthcare professionals and ensuring consistency
across healthcare practices would make a real
difference.
The LINK group was mentioned frequently
throughout the day. It was first formed over a year
ago and today the group comprises of people with
a passion and enthusiasm for improving healthcare
using the best possible research evidence.
The group is tasked with providing guidance to the
Impact Accelerator Unit project team by drawing on
their knowledge, contacts and experience of the
NHS and healthcare practice.
Over the last 12 months, Sue Ashby (PPIE
Implementation Fellow) has been researching the
work of the group and the impact of the patient voice
in implementation. Along with Research User Group
members Katie Tempest, Ruth Haines and John
Haines, who helped Sue with her research project, Sue
explained that although there is a lot of literature out
there that talks about how we can meaningfully involve
patients in research, it isn’t telling us how it has done
in implementation.
Alternatively, Sue has been researching how to use
public and patient involvement and engagement in
implementation by reviewing case studies, literature,
interviewing patients, researchers and clinicians
at Keele, and observing LINK meetings and she
presented her initial findings at the meeting.
Today the group comprises of people with
a passion and enthusiasm for improving
healthcare using the best possible
research evidence.”
All in all, the event was a
great success and it was
fantastic to see so much
enthusiasm for public
and patient involvement
and engagement from
not just the patients,
but from the academics
and stakeholders as
well. The work that has
been done by the team
has ensured that it has
become best practice to
involve patients when
researching healthcare
conditions and how
treatment is delivered.
Now, it’s about opening
up a dialogue and
changing perspectives
of all those involved in
research by emphasising
the importance of
patient power.
Now, it’s about opening
up a dialogue and
changing perspectives
of all those involved in
research by emphasising
the importance of
patient power.”