NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West Midlands (CLAHRC WM)

Matched Funders Forum

Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care

Hospital

Primary Care

Local Authority

Implementation

£20m £10m

Evaluation

Themes in CLAHRC WM

Service themes:

Cross cutting and supporting themes:

£5,523,741 £2,266,995 £2,247,891 £8,789,727

How will we know how we have used your matched funding wisely?

Engaged with you and the people you serve

Documented knowledge transfer

Evaluated service change ‘on the

ground’

Secured follow-on funding

Published

Created self-replicating

process

University

Developed capacity

Services

Theme 2: A Big Hit

Theme 1: Maternity and Child Health

Effective practice – promoting spontaneous onset labour (step wedge trial, n = 2,787)

Maternity triage

Lay health workers (RCT n = 1,500)

Home birth

Discharge policy

Paediatric prescribing support

Theme 3: Prevention and Detection

In the first year: Completed 14 systematic reviews, published 37 papers and brought in

£5,347,010 in total grant income. Research highlights:

o Changing Case Order to Optimise Patterns of Performance in Screening (CO-OPS) Trial recruited 1.1million women.

o Families for Health: community-based service intervention concerned with supporting families with weight-management.

o Lighten-Up Plus to evaluate a text-based weight management programme.

Examples of impact:o A number of systematic reviews have been completed and published in

the Cochrane Reviews library and have influenced health policy. o We highlight the impact on influencing national screening

policies, particularly in demonstrating the benefits of extending the blood spot testing in neonates.

1) Integrated careo Home dialysiso Overview of systematic reviewso Supported integrated discharge serviceo Virtual out-patient clinicso Integrated medical and social careo Multidisciplinary teamso Management of multi-morbidity

2) Psychological needso End stage renal diseaseo Depression in multi-morbidity

Theme 4: Chronic Diseases

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Percentage of dialysis patients on home dial-

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Other outputs

Gearing = 1:19

141 papers published (mean Impact Factor = 3.77; Lancet, JAMA, BMJ)

Papers

83 postgraduate studentsPostgraduates

Research showcase events to demonstrate progress with particular collaborative projects and to discuss priority areas for further study and/or collaborative grant applications.

Engagement events

1,300 subscribers and rising!News blog

Grants

Service Impact: Extended Collaborators

15/04/2023

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