Research at NCH&C Chris Street

Introduction to NCH&C

Our Trust provides:

• Children’s services: – Healthy Child Pathway, including Surestart Centres – Disability and Specialist Health Pathway, including consultant outpatients

• Adult community services: – Organised into four localities, co-terminous with CCGs and social care – Inpatient rehabilitation, community nursing and therapy, continence and MSK

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• Specialist services: – Specialist neuro-rehabilitation – Amputee rehabilitation – Community dental services – Specialist nursing – Foot health – Stop Smoking services – Clinical Assessment and Treatment services

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NCH&C Current status

• Population 870,000

• 34 clinical services

• 2,300 whole time equivalent staff

•Trust Research Facilitator since 2011

• Embedded in Medical Directorate

• Remit to increase capacity and research activity

• Increase staff/corporate/service and User awareness

• Increasing collaboration

• Research Governance http://nspccro.nihr.ac.uk

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Snapshot of activity

• Currently 12 services involved in NIHR research

• 27 open portfolio studies

• 48% activity portfolio

• 52% student studies

• current 33% split observational/interventional/PIC for portfolio

• cover wide range of disease areas

• Rank 7th in national league table for community trusts

• Major room for growth

Collaboration and cross trust working

• With UEA researchers – eg stroke rehabilitation

• With primary care – eg ME/CFS study

• With acute sector – eg drooling trial in cerebral palsy

• Multi-centre studies – eg Keeping Children Safe

Active projects- split by UKCRN Health Category 13/14

What are we aiming for

For patients and the public

• Move to more community care provides opportunities for research

• Involve our population in the development of research hypothesis – what is important to them

•Provide more opportunities for patients to be involved – not just as participants

•Patients are research ambassadors – we would like them to encourage and challenge us to undertake research

What are we aiming for

For NCH&C

• Engage partners to develop research pertinent to our population

• Increase our NIHR activity – studies and recruitment

• Improve our reputation as a research site

• Attract more Industry research; promote what we have to offer

• Attract research active clinical staff

•Attract clinically active research staff

What are we aiming for

For clinicians

• Increase NCHC clinicians as research leaders

• Improve access to research support services i.e. RDS, Norwich Research Park, UEA, NSPCCRO

• Strengthen opportunities to access grant funding

• Improve clinical services

Thank You

Any Questions