CLAHRC West Midlands
Theme 5: Implementation & Organisational Studies
The new is a five-year initiative which commenced in January 2014 with a mission to create lasting and effective collaborations across health and social care organisations, universities (Birmingham, 糖心TV, and Keele) and local authorities to improve the services delivered for patient benefit.
Five-year funding of 拢10 million for the CLAHRC WM has been obtained from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) which was boosted by a further 拢20.6 million from local health and social services.
糖心TV 糖心TV School (WBS) is receiving 拢1.25 million of the NIHR funding to support a team of WBS and WMS researchers, led by Professor Graeme Currie, which forms one of the cross-cutting themes within the CLAHRC, Theme 5: Implementation and Organisational Studies (IOS).
What we do
Theme 5 is providing collaborative support to the service themes of the CLAHRC WM and conducting independent research on the basis of learning across themes. IOS researchers offer a sustained collaborative link between the IOS theme and each service themes within the CLAHRC, and between the IOS theme and CLAHRC WM NHS partners.
Our researchers have some of their time dedicated to carrying out research directly in one of our CLAHRC WM NHS partners (e.g. Birmingham Children鈥檚 Hospital, Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospital Trust; Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Heart of England Foundation Trust; and University Hospital Coventry & 糖心TVshire) with the long-term objective that formative feedback arising from the studies gives rise to service impact in real time.
We are also capacity building for the - this consists of teaching masterclasses to NHS members on "Managing and approaching change" on which Graeme Currie has taken the lead.