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Evaluation, Trials and Studies
Coordinating Centre
Health Services & Delivery
Research (HS&DR)
Programme
Kevin Campbell
Senior Programme Manager, HS&DR Programme
RDS West Midlands
9th October 2013
08/07/2015
Evaluation, Trials and Studies
Coordinating Centre
NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies (NETS)
programmes
Systematic Review
Established: 2012
(previously known as
Reviews Infrastructure)
NETSCC: Established: 2008
Health Services
and Delivery Research
Established: January
2012
Public Health Research
Established: 2008
Health Technology
Assessment
Efficacy and Mechanism
Evaluation
Established: 1993
Funded by the MRC and
NIHR, managed by NIHR
Established: 2008
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HS&DR Programme
►Established and launched in Jan 2012
►Merger of the Health Services Research (HSR)
and Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO)
Programmes
►The combined portfolio contains over 300
studies, of which around one hundred are live.
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Purpose and Remit
►The HS&DR programme funds research to
produce rigorous and relevant evidence on the
quality, accessibility and organisation of health
services, including evaluations of how the NHS
might improve delivery of services.
►The audience for this research is the public,
service users, clinicians and managers.
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Principles
The programme will support:
►A range of types of research including evidence
synthesis and primary research and is keen to support a
variety of ambitious evaluative research to improve health
services, on topics of national importance.
►There is no cap on the cost of projects
►Pilot and feasibility studies considered
►Evidence synthesis and empirical studies considered
►Projects which look at the relevant areas of social care
as well as health will be considered
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Workstreams
The HS&DR programme has two workstreams:
►The commissioned workstream issues calls on
specific topics that have been identified as high
priority for the NHS and important to NHS
managers and decision makers (including an
annual HS&DR stakeholder exercise)
►The researcher-led workstream accepts
applications from researchers on any question or
topic that is within the overall programme remit
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Funding cycle
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Application assessment process
Outline proposals:
►Remit and competitiveness check (pre-panel)
►Panel assessment primarily for need and importance
to the NHS
►Shortlist/Reject/Resubmit
Full proposals:
►External review
►Board assessment primarily for scientific quality, value
for money
►Fund/Fund With Changes/Reject/Resubmit
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Selection criteria
Importance of the Research
►Adherence to the advertised commissioning
brief or call specification
►Health need
►Expressed need
►Sustained interest
►Capacity to generate new knowledge
►Actionable findings and prospects for change
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Selection criteria
Research Quality
►Scientific quality
►Links with knowledge users and where
appropriate, integration of knowledge users in the
knowledge production process
►Service user involvement
►Make up of team and project management
►Value for money
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Five top tips for applicants
►Relevance to wider service Think about ways to increase
the generaliseability of findings in the study design.
►Describe clearly the problem, intervention (if part of an
evaluation), modelling technique and why selected.
►Get the right people on board – consider range of
qual/quant research skills and managerial/NHS expertise.
►Focus on actionable findings for the service and plan the
dissemination early, considering range of outputs.
►Read it through! Make the application a compelling case
for funding, clearly written and with no typos.
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Recent research calls in priority areas
► Evaluating new models of care for people with long-term
conditions
► Interventions to improve support workforce for older
people
► New research on community hospitals
► Organising care for frail elderly in hospitals
► Knowledge/innovation transfer
► Avoidable mortality in hospitals
► The organisation and delivery of 24/7 healthcare
► Dignity and compassion
► Psychiatric liaison services
► Alternatives to face to face contact
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Examples of Funded studies
How can we manage pain better for
inpatients with dementia?
Professor Dawn Dowding (University of
Leeds) 36 months from October 2012
(£878,539).
This ambitious mixed-methods
study aims to identify current
practice in managing pain for these
patients and to develop and test a
new tool which can be used on the
wards.
Does pay for performance work?
Professor Ruth McDonald (University of
Nottingham) 60 months, from March
2009 (£749,867)
This ambitious five year study
evaluates the impact of incentives for
teams in particular clinical pathways
(such as pneumonia and heart
failure) across all 24 acute trusts in
one region.
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Examples of Funded studies
Do virtual teams reduce emergency
admissions?
Dr Geraint Lewis (Nuffield Trust) 20
months, from May 2010 (£318,053).
This study considers the costs and
impact of virtual wards – identifying
patients at high risk of emergency
admission and providing support
with multidisciplinary teams
(including community matrons,
general practitioners, pharmacists
and social workers).
Is it safer to have your baby in
consultant-led units, midwifery-led
units or at home?
Professor Peter Brocklehurst (UCL Institute
for Womens Health) 58 months, from
September 2006 (£733,202)
This ambitious Birthplace
programme of activity centred on a
large cohort study of more than
60,000 low-risk births in England.
This was designed to answer
important questions about the
comparative safety and quality of
different planned places of birth from obstetric unit to midwifery
units (freestanding and alongside)
to home births.
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Further information:
HS&DR funding enquiries: [email protected]
HS&DR website: www.netscc.ac.uk/hsdr/