Events
Next Event:
27 November 2024
Evaluation Learning Network – Workshop #4: Reporting and Communication and Follow-up
Date:Wednesday, 27th November 2024 ¦ Time:12:00-13:00 ¦ Location: Online (MS Teams)
Guest Speaker: Dr Natasha Dsouza
After an inaugural workshop series over the course of 2021 to 2023, the Evaluation Learning Network is back for its fourth year. We are delighted to announce the fourth and the last workshop of NIHR ARC NWL Evaluation Learning Network 2024 Series. This year, we will once again cover how to plan for, conduct and effectively report and communicate the results of evaluations of healthcare innovations.
The Innovation & Evaluation Theme’s extensive experience in capacity building across the sector and suggestions about needs and aspirations of potential participants, have shaped the content and format of the Evaluation Learning Network.
The Evaluation Learning Network is intended to be a platform where participants can improve their evaluation expertise and receive support with their current evaluation projects.
The main objective of the Evaluation Learning Network will be to create an environment where you can:
improve your skills on evaluation,
access evaluation expertise provided by the NIHR ARC North-West London evaluation team and other partners,
access and exchange resources which can help you with your evaluation work,
share your experience and challenges on real projects with peers and experts.
Why is this important?
Innovation is an essential part of healthcare. Yet, even despite strong supporting evidence, not all new ideas, technologies or processes are widely used and adopted across the healthcare setting. Further, even when they are adopted, they may not have the desired effect, and may change the way healthcare is delivered in ways that were not anticipated.
A structured and well-planned evaluation can be an invaluable tool to better understand the effects and effectiveness of a newly implemented healthcare innovation. By providing a general roadmap for conducting evaluations, and supplementing this with real-world experiences from ongoing projects, we aim to provide our participants with the tools necessary to perform and conduct their own evaluations.
How will it work?
We welcome Dr Natasha Dsouza as guest speakers, who will share her experience and insights from reporting and communicating the results of recent evaluations she undertook.
This is the fourth in a series of workshops spread across the 2024 calendar year. This workshop will last 1 hour and cover topics pertaining to Reporting and Communication and Follow-up, including:
Consolidating results
Preparing and disseminating evaluation reports
Sharing findings and lessons learned
Using and following up on evaluation results
We aim to make the workshop interactive (answering your questions and hearing about your evaluations throughout) to create a learning community environment.
Who is the workshop for?
We aim to target a wide range of professionals with an interest in the evaluation space, included but not limited to:
- health professionals
- improvement managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
- programme/project managers
- consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
- researchers
- academics
- students
- experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting.
If you are currently involved in an evaluation project and would like to share your experiences during one of the workshops, please reach out to us via the email address below.
Who are we?
We are a team of researchers based in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London. We are part of the Innovation & Evaluation Theme of the NIHR-funded ARC NWL. Our aim is to study and improve the uptake of evidence-based healthcare innovation through studying the implementation of new ideas in the healthcare sector.
Book your space
As places are limited, please confirm your attendance by completing this form. Once you have completed the survey and your attendance has been confirmed, you will be sent an invite via MS Teams.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact Husa Aldossary.
30th November 2024
World Aids Day Seminar: Improving delivery of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis among key populations in England
30th November 2024 ¦ Rich Mix London ¦ 14:00 - 17:00
NIHR ARC NWL, Imperial College London and the Youth Involvement and Engagement Lab would like to invite you to a World AIDS Day seminar to discuss the results of a groundbreaking study that investigated the factors influencing access to HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among Black women in England.
Despite advancements in HIV prevention, disparities persist in PrEP awareness and accessibility within this community. This event aims to shed light on the systemic, social, and personal barriers that affect Black women's access and uptake of PrEP, providing valuable learnings for healthcare professionals, policymakers, and community advocates. More specifically, we will uncover and discuss the importance of involving Black women in the decision-making process to design and pilot interventions that aim to address the barriers to PrEP access.
What to Expect:
In-Depth Findings: Explore the key barriers identified in the study, including healthcare accessibility, cultural perceptions, stigma, and informational gaps.
Actionable Strategies: Learn about recommendations to enhance PrEP access and awareness among Black women.
Interactive Q&A Session: Engage with the researchers and study participants during a live question-and-answer segment.
Who Should Attend:
Members of the public interested in HIV prevention and health equity
Community leaders and activists
Public health officials and policymakers
Healthcare providers and professionals
Researchers and academics in health and social sciences
If you have any questions or queries, please contact Flavien Coukan.
26th February 2025
Wednesday 26 February ¦ 10:00 - 12:00 ¦ Online: MS Teams
The Care Act (England) 2014 requires local authorities to act to provide and enable ‘…for the provision of services, facilities or resources, or take other steps’ to support prevention (Section 2). However, there are multiple and inconsistent drivers for a renewed focus on prevention in social care. Demands for services continue to grow in ways that are challenging to meet, and prevention is part of the response. For some, prevention is inherently the ‘right thing to do’ based on social development values. An emphasis on prevention in social care is not new, with familiar practice dilemmas. These include how to support prevention in fast-paced environments, when there is varied use of the term ‘prevention’, and insufficient public funding for social care.
Research on prevention in social services reveals implementation successes and gaps, critically explores language, values, ethics and models of prevention, and explores questions about measurement and impact. This practice and research session will discuss research and practice lessons about prevention in social care.
Past Events:
14 November 2024
Autumn Collaborative Learning Event
Integrating health and care services: Creating capacity to deliver change
Date: Thursday, 14 November 2024
Times: 10:00 - 16:00
Location: St Paul's Centre, Hammersmith, W6 9PJ
Event Overview:
Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), set up 2 years ago through the Health and Care Act 2022, represent an important change in the operation of and focus of English health and social care systems. By creating an imperative for those working in them to work together across organisational boundaries, ICSs have autonomy to improve local population health outcomes; reduce inequalities in the delivery of health and care; and promote better value from health and social care resources.
Local differences in, for example, proportion of rural and urban communities, degrees of deprivation or variations in current configuration of services present very different challenges within the 42 English Integrated Care Boards (ICBs). So, working at neighbourhood level is essential. Already many interesting examples of innovative collaborations are making differences locally. But it is collaboration between health and social care that presents ICBs with their greatest test.
Difficulties of integrated working between these sectors is rooted in historical disparity in funding. Only in 2018 was the Department of Health reconfigured as the Department of Health and Social Care, but differences in funding continue. In 2022-23 NHS England received £181.7 billion but social care services £28.4 billion. Rebalancing funding will take a long time to resolve but other important disparities are more amenable to local action.
Two stand out: workforce development and the plans and resources for training, and the availability of research and data. A recent Kings Fund report based on case studies of four ICBs describes progress towards building a whole system approach to workforce. Developments cited include: new, local approaches to workforce engagement; leadership development enabling working in “collaborative spaces” and investing in skills training for system leadership. Not surprisingly, a focus on NHS priorities rather than the wider care system was a reported “tension” as was persistence of “organisation first” behaviours. However, the study reports one site where an integrated suite of training and development resources has been made available to all those working across health and social care. Small steps, but in the right direction.
Ramping up research programmes across health and social care is a key goal for the NIHR - since 2022 the National Institute for Health and Care Research. Increasing social care research capacity and data collection to match health services research is essential for identifying gaps in service delivery and effective integration. Aligning research and training goals; establishing joint research initiatives; improving local data sharing and setting up local training hubs are all locally achievable goals.
Reaching the ICS transformational goals will be slow –certainly way longer than any single funding cycle and perhaps the work of a generation. Meanwhile, enabling all parts of the system – from neighbourhoods, primary and community care networks, social care services, local authorities, hospital services and their ICBs - to learn together and to research together is a crucial step for the continuing development of locally inspired and research driven integration across the NHS and social care.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the importance of health and social care integration
Identify key barriers and challenges to the delivery of integrated services
Review the extent of gaps in health and social care research
Consider areas for research to support the delivery of integrated working
Explore opportunities for creating health and social care collaborative training initiatives
CPD Credits:
5 category 1 (external) CPD credits are available for attendance.
This is an in-person event. All are welcome to attend.
Registration:
This event is free to attend, but online registration is required.
13 November 2024
Evaluation Learning Network – Workshop #3: Economic Evaluation of Public Health Programmes
Date:Wednesday, 13th November 2024 ¦ Time:12:00-13:30 ¦ Location: Online (MS Teams)
Presenters: Professor Subhash Pokhrel, Professor Nana Anokye, Dr Sayem Ahmed, Amrit Banstola
The Innovation & Evaluation Theme is pleased to invite you to attend the third workshop in this year’s series, featuring an insightful session led by experts in public health economics from the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) at Brunel University London. Designed for healthcare professionals such as researchers, commissioners, healthcare managers, public health staff, and community leaders, this workshop offers practical knowledge in health economics, focusing on how to evaluate a public health programme for its value-for-money. Delivered in plain English, this course will help you explore different types of economic evaluation, learn how to cost interventions effectively and explore methods for valuing and measuring outcomes. Engaging, hands-on exercises will strengthen your understanding, providing you with the skills to confidently apply economic evaluation methods in real-world settings.
Key Topics to Be Discussed
• Why is it important to understand the value-for-money argument in public health?
• What kind of economic evaluations are there?
• What data would I need to conduct economic evaluation of public health programmes?
• How do I identify, measure and value costs?
• How do I identify, measure and value outcomes?
• How do I put together the estimated costs and outcomes to judge the value-for-money?
Book your space
As places are limited, please confirm your attendance by completing this form. Once you have completed the survey and your attendance has been confirmed, you will be sent an invite via MS Teams.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact Husa Aldossary.
2 October 2024
Introduction to Developing Evidence Enriched Practice (DEEP)
When: Wednesday 2 October, 10am-12pm
Where: MS Teams
Cost: Free
This 2-hour online session (delivered via Microsoft Teams) is an introduction to the Developing Evidence Enriched Practice (DEEP) programme, developed in Wales. DEEP is a ‘…co-production approach to gathering, exploring, and using diverse types of evidence in learning and development using story and dialogue-based methods’.
These methods include Appreciative Inquiry, Community of Enquiry, Exploratory Talk and Most Significant Change. Running through DEEP is the principle to value and use a range of evidence (lived experience, practitioner wisdom, research and organisational knowledge).
This introduction to DEEP session will cover the key principles of the DEEP approach and methods to support taking a holistic approach to evidence in practice.
The session will be facilitated by Nick Andrews (Swansea University) and Fiona Verity (Brunel University).
Meet Our Facilitators
Nick Andrews
Nick Andrews is a Registered Social Worker and Research and Practice Development Officer in Swansea University, where he co-ordinates the Developing Evidence Enriched Practice (DEEP) programme. The focus of this work is a co-production approach to using diverse types of evidence in learning and development using story and dialogue methods. Having spent many years in practice and planning in social care services, he is able to make connections between research, policy and practice and has developed an extensive network across Wales and the UK. He is passionate about supporting a shift from process to relationship-centred practice.
Fiona Verity
Fiona has a background in community development work in Australia in the 1980s. She worked in various community-based roles for 15 years, including community development roles in local government and the community health sector, and management roles in community health. She has an Bachelor of Social Administration and a PhD (Sociology). Her research and teaching have been in the subject areas of community development, social policy and social planning.
In 2000 she moved to work in the higher education sector and has worked at the University of South Australia and Flinders University (South Australia) and Swansea University (2016-2023). Before joining Brunel University in 2023, she was Professor, Swansea University and a former Director of the Wales School for Social Care Research (2016-2020).
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11 September 2024
RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2024
ARC Outreach Alliance: Young People's Open Minds (AOA) in Northwest London invites you to join us in-person to acknowledge the AOA project's Phase 1 achievements, and promote our plans to continue building on vital children and young people's mental health research in Phase 2 (2024-2025).
We will end the symposium with a presentation of prizes to our award-winning Young People's Advisory Group (YPAG) who have played an essential role in the success of our research over the past three years.
The agenda will be uploaded here closer to the date.
📌 A buffet lunch will be provided at 13:30, and refreshments will be available throughout the event. To allow us to make the necessary catering arrangements for all dietary requirements in advance, please register your attendance .
Registration closes on Tuesday 10th September, 10:00 AM, but may close earlier if we reach max capacity.
Email us for further information: aoa@imperial.ac.uk
WEDNESDAY 11 SEPT 2024
FREE (with advance registration)
13:30 - 16:00
(followed by a networking reception until 17:00)
THE INVENTION ROOMS
Imperial College London, Stadium House, 68 Wood Lane, White City, London W12 7TA
Key Speakers
Dasha Nicholls, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Imperial
Shamini Gnani, General Practioner, NHS & Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow, Imperial
Alex Weston, Youth Engagement Manager, Listen to Act
Rinad Bakhti, Research Associate, School of Public Health, Imperial
Steven Hope, Research Fellow, School of Public Health , Imperial
26 June 2024
The Ethnicity & Health Unit Powerful Partnerships Conference
Wednesday 26th June 2024 ¦ BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP ¦ 9:30 - 16:00
Our Ethnicity & Health Unit (EHU) will be hosting a Conference focused on building partnerships to overcome the challenges in health and care that our diverse communities face.
The EHU Powerful Partnership Conference will focus on creating transformative change in the health and care services provided to minority ethnic communities. The Conference will seek to answer the following questions:
How can you enable partners from diverse communities, academia and the NHS to utilise applied research and improvement techniques?
How can you build trusting and sustainable relationships between a diverse group of stakeholders required to deliver long-lasting positive change?
How can NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) support the development of partnerships and change at a regional and national scale?
We will start the day delving into the ecosystem of the ICS Research Engagement Network (REN) programmes that have delivered 28 community research roadshows since 2023, all focused on increasing diversity in health and care research. We will hear from the expert community members and organisations that helped make them happen, and learn from their experiences working in partnership with practitioners from the health research sector.
The second half of the day will be dedicated to the big complex picture of ethnicity and health. Hearing from dedicated change agents in health equity from across the UK, we will span topics from climate emergency to accessing primary care, and explore how the right partnerships have the potential to unlock transformative change.
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9th May 2024
Spring Collaborative Learning Event
Collaborative Learning Event: Building Capacity for Integration Engaging Local Workforces
Date: Thursday 9th May 2024
Times: 10am – 4pm
Venue: St Paul’s Centre, Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London, W6 9PJ
8th May 2024
Join us for the second NIHR ARC Northwest London Evaluation Learning Network Workshop!
Evaluation Learning Network – Workshop #2: Conducting an evaluation
Date: Wednesday 8th May 2024
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Location: Online (MS Teams)
Hosted by the Innovation & Evaluation Theme, this interactive session is tailored to enhance your evaluation skills and support ongoing projects. Learn from industry experts, share experiences, and access valuable resources to bolster your evaluation endeavours. Secure your spot now to gain insights on conducting evaluations and hear from guest speakers Dr. Connie Junghans and Allison Williams. Whether you're a healthcare professional, researcher, or student, this workshop is designed for you.
Dr Connie Junghans and Allison Williams will share their experience and insights from conducting an evaluation of the Community Health and Wellbeing Workers programme in Westminster. We will foster interactivity throughout the workshop by actively engaging with your questions and insights, cultivating a vibrant learning community atmosphere.
Who is the workshop for?
We aim to target a wide range of professionals with an interest in the evaluation space, included but not limited to:
health professionals
improvement managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
programme/project managers
consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
researchers
academics
students
experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting.
If you are currently involved in an evaluation project and would like to share your experiences during one of the workshops, please reach out to us via email.
Who are we?
We are a team of researchers based in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London. We are part of the Innovation & Evaluation Theme of the NIHR-funded ARC NWL. We aim to study and improve the uptake of evidence-based healthcare innovation through studying the implementation of new ideas in the healthcare sector.
Book your space
As places are limited, please confirm your attendance by completing this pre-course survey. Once you have completed the survey and your attendance has been confirmed, you will be sent an invite via MS Teams.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact Husa Aldossary.
17th January - 16th March 2024
The Ethnicity and Health Unit in Collaboration with North West London Integrated Care System (NWL ICS) and Brent, Ealing, Hillingdon & Hounslow CVS' are running a series of free Health Roadshows to encourage Northwest London's diverse communities to engage with research. The Health Roadshows will be delivered through our ICS REN Funded Community Research Champions project.
Each borough will have a specific focus supporting a bottom-up, hyper-local approach, whilst being aligned with a common agenda in increasing diversity in research participation as well as pursuing a hypertension focus, a NWL ICS research and innovation priority linked to Core20PLUS5 that disproportionately impacts minority ethnic groups.
Our Health Roadshows will deliver free workshops, offer holistic support and include free health checks available to all attendees!
Take your health in your hands and join us and attend one of our Health Roadshows
22nd February & 4th March 2024
Children and young people (CYP) account for over 20% of the UK population, over 10% of healthcare spending but only around 5% of health research funding. Increasing participation of CYP in research could lead to more effective and evidence-based interventions to improve childhood obesity, mental
health, and health inequalities.
In partnership with the Mohn Centre for Children’s Health and Wellbeing and AYPH, we are offering free training to researchers to build confidence around involving young people in shaping research. This course is co-designed and delivered with young trainers and provides a space to explore the issues from a practical and young person-centred perspective.
We are hosting two sessions:
Monday 26 February. 10am - 4pm, St Mary’s Campus – Register here
Monday 4 March, 10am - 4pm, White City – Register here
Training will be tailored to the priorities that emerge from the survey below.
If you have any questions about the training please contact info@ayph.org.uk.
Complete the survey
We would like to better understand the barriers health researchers face in engaging children and young people in research. Please take 5 minutes to complete our survey about challenges you may have faced in your work and the support you feel would help researchers to develop more research with children and young people. Your contribution will help us to shape training for health researchers and to develop programmes to address the barriers to health research with children and young people.
Join the Evaluation Learning Network 2024 Series – Register Now for Workshop #1: Planning an Evaluation
Date: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Location: Online (MS Teams)
Join us as we extend the success of our inaugural workshop series from 2021 to 2023 into 2024! We are thrilled to extend a special invitation to you for the first ARC Northwest London Evaluation Learning Network Workshop on 2024, taking place on 24th January, from 12:00 – 1:00 PM on MS Teams. This workshop marks the kickoff of a dynamic series scheduled throughout the year.
This year promises even more insightful sessions, covering how to plan for, conduct, and effectively report and communicate the results of evaluations of healthcare innovations. The Workshop will be conducted three times a year on the following dates:
Workshop 1: Planning an Evaluation – Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Workshop 2: Conducting Evaluation - Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Workshop 3: Reporting, Communication, and Follow-up - Wednesday, 6 November 2024
The Innovation & Evaluation Theme’s extensive experience in capacity building across the sector and suggestions about needs and aspirations of potential participants, have shaped the content and format of the Evaluation Learning Network.
The Evaluation Learning Network is intended to be a platform where participants can improve their evaluation expertise and receive support with their current evaluation projects.
The main objective of the Evaluation Learning Network will be to create an environment where you can:
improve your skills on evaluation,
access evaluation expertise provided by the NIHR ARC North-West London evaluation team and other partners,
access and exchange resources which can help you with your evaluation work
share your experience and challenges on real projects with peers and experts.
Why is this important?
Innovation is an essential part of healthcare. Yet, even despite strong supporting evidence, not all new ideas, technologies or processes are widely used and adopted across the healthcare setting. Further, even when they are adopted, they may not have the desired effect, and may change the way healthcare is delivered in ways that were not anticipated.
A structured and well-planned evaluation can be an invaluable tool to better understand the effects and effectiveness of a newly implemented healthcare innovation. By providing a general roadmap for conducting evaluations, and supplementing this with real-world experiences from ongoing projects, we aim to provide our participants with the tools necessary to perform and conduct their own evaluations.
How will it work?
Registration is now open for the first workshop in a series of three, spread across the 2024 calendar year. This inaugural workshop, focusing on Planning an evaluation, is scheduled to last 1 hour and will cover topics such as:
An introduction to complex and rapid evaluation in healthcare
Aid in establishing evaluation rationale and outcomes
Introduce programme theory and how it can be used in an evaluation
We will aim to make the workshop as interactive as possible to create a learning community environment. During the workshop you will have the opportunity to discuss your experience and challenges with evaluations with participants and ARC NWL experts.
Who is the workshop for?
We aim to target a wide range of professionals with an interest in the evaluation space, included but not limited to:
health professionals
improvement managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
programme/project managers
consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
researchers
academics
students
experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting.
If you are currently involved in an evaluation project and would like to share your experiences during one of the workshops, please reach out to us via the email address below.
Who are we?
We are a team of researchers based in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London. We are part of the Innovation & Evaluation Theme of the NIHR-funded ARC NWL. Our aim is to study and improve the uptake of evidence-based healthcare innovation through studying the implementation of new ideas in the healthcare sector.
Book your space
As places are limited, please confirm your attendance by completing this pre-course survey. Once you have completed the survey and your attendance has been confirmed, you will be sent an invite via MS Teams.
If you are interested in sharing your evaluation work with other peers or have any questions regarding the workshop, please get in touch with Husa Aldossary.
Collaborative Learning Event
Leading in uncertain times: Delivering care for today’s and tomorrow’s needs
Date: 7 November 2023
Times: 10am – 4pm
Venue: St Paul’s Centre, Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London, W6 9PJ
Aim:
We bring together the people whose work improves population health and the quality of care in NW London for bi-annual events that provide collaborative learning experiences themed around a timely and relevant theme.
Who is this event for?:
People with an interest or whose work relates to researching and/or improving the health and care of populations in Northwest London.
Why attend?:
Our Collaborative Learning Events change the mode of learning throughout the day giving a range of learning and development opportunities. The events will provide you with ways to operationalise strategic objectives and give you practical skills that you can use in your work.
The event includes a packed programme - visit the registration website for more:
Keynote presentation from a leading sector expert
An interactive Learning Lab
Themed breakout workshops where you can hear about the latest research directly from the researchers delivering it
Networking opportunities
Contribute to a live panel discussion that expands on the ideas and questions generated from the day
It's free to attend and registrations are open now
Lunch and refreshments are provided and this event is open to all (registration required)
Event Context:
Integrated Care Systems are partnerships of organisations that come together to plan and deliver coordinated health and care services for the population of an area. Poorer, ageing and diverse populations need cohesive, local health and social care systems that are accessible and work for them. How much integrated health systems can achieve in reducing the burden of ill health will depend in part on the effective collaboration between health and social care but also, crucially, on how well they can bring together and develop community-based health and care networks that promote healthy lives.
Sustained local population and public health measures to improve the health of a population, should in time reduce the need for medical interventions and so allow re-distribution of resources for health and social care. Failure to embrace population health within the health system has in the past been costly both financially and in terms of disease burden. Despite this being a time of unprecedented stress for both health and social care systems, working at pace to change embedded working practices and develop collaboration across health and social care boundaries and within localities has become a priority.
Communities want to trust their local health and care systems, which should be tuned to local needs and especially to the voices of those who may be marginalised, forgotten and in greater need. Neighbourhoods and local communities are well positioned to become the centre of the emergence of effective population health activities. By linking such local activities and networks with local health and social care organisations, an integrated system can both promote healthy living, provide effective health care, and be better able to listen.
Building local health promotion activities and networks should reflect local strengths and heed local voices – and differences in approach in different localities will emerge. Much can be learned from the experience of those already doing this – for example about the support needed by local leaders and their teams; how to develop collaborative practices across different working cultures; how to manage and work with competing values and being aware of possible pitfalls.
Event Learning Objectives:
Delegates will gain an understanding of the range of health and care spaces within a local health community and how they interact.
Through interactive exercises, keynote presentations, and workshops with our research themes you will gain insights to place-based practice, in particular the leadership skills needed to create collaboration across spaces.
Through hearing directly from applied health and care researchers you will gain insights into some of the work in place in Northwest London complexities and consider ways they could contribute to improvement in health and care delivery.
A series of linked events
In the next three NIHR ARC Northwest London Collaborative Learning Events, we aim to explore three aspects of local development and integration of population health within health systems.
The first event will look at examples where health communities are coming together to combine population measures with individual care and ask: “Who are the likely leaders and what are the demands on leaders and their teams?”
In the second we will focus on the development of a workforce able to collaborate across health and care boundaries.
In the final event, we will come together to consider how to recognise important changes and ensure sustainability across a health community to come together to consider how to recognise important changes and ensure sustainability.
Evaluation Learning Network – Workshop #3: Reporting, Communication and Follow-up
Date: Wednesday 11th October 2023
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Location: Online (MS Teams)
After an inaugural workshop series over the course of 2021 and 2022, the Evaluation Learning Network is back for its third year. We are delighted to announce the third of three NIHR ARC NWL Evaluation Learning Network Workshops of 2023. This year, we will once again cover how to plan for, conduct and effectively report and communicate the results of evaluations of healthcare innovations.
The Innovation & Evaluation Theme’s extensive experience in capacity building across the sector and suggestions about needs and aspirations of potential participants, have shaped the content and format of the Evaluation Learning Network.
The Evaluation Learning Network is intended to be a platform where participants can improve their evaluation expertise and receive support with their current evaluation projects.
The main objective of the Evaluation Learning Network will be to create an environment where you can:
improve your skills on evaluation,
access evaluation expertise provided by the NIHR ARC North-West London evaluation team and other partners,
access and exchange resources which can help you with your evaluation work,
share your experience and challenges on real projects with peers and experts.
Why is this important?
Innovation is an essential part of healthcare. Yet, even despite strong supporting evidence, not all new ideas, technologies or processes are widely used and adopted across the healthcare setting. Further, even when they are adopted, they may not have the desired effect, and may change the way healthcare is delivered in ways that were not anticipated.
A structured and well-planned evaluation can be an invaluable tool to better understand the effects and effectiveness of a newly implemented healthcare innovation. By providing a general roadmap for conducting evaluations, and supplementing this with real-world experiences from ongoing projects, we aim to provide our participants with the tools necessary to perform and conduct their own evaluations.
How will it work?
This is the third in a series of three workshops spread across the 2023 calendar year. This workshop will last 1 hour and cover topics pertaining to Reporting and Communication and Follow-up, including:
Consolidating results
Preparing and disseminating evaluation reports
Sharing findings and lessons learned
Using and following up on evaluations results
We will be welcoming Dr Laura Lennox and Dr Natasha Dsouza as guest speakers, who will share their experiences and insights from reporting and communicating the results of recent evaluations they undertook.
We will aim to make the workshop as interactive as possible (answering your questions and hearing about your evaluations throughout) to create a learning community environment.
Who is the workshop for?
We aim to target a wide range of professionals with an interest in the evaluation space, included but not limited to:
health professionals
improvement managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
programme/project managers
consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
researchers
academics
students
experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting.
If you are currently involved in an evaluation project and would like to share your experiences during one of the workshops, please reach out to us via the email address below.
Who are we?
We are a team of researchers based in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London. We are part of the Innovation & Evaluation Theme of the NIHR-funded ARC NWL. Our aim is to study and improve the uptake of evidence-based healthcare innovation through studying the implementation of new ideas in the healthcare sector.
Book your space
As places are limited, please confirm your attendance by completing this pre-course survey. Once you have completed the survey and your attendance has been confirmed, you will be sent an invite via MS Teams.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact Husa Aldossary.
NIHR ARC NWL and the Imperial College AHSC invites you to join us for our joint Webinar on Reverse Innovation in the NHS; a case study on Community Health and Wellbeing
Date: Wednesday 6th September 2023
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Location: Online via Zoom webinar
Reverse innovation is an innovation developed in a low or middle-income country which is then adopted by a high-income country. It has been identified as a key emerging trend in global health systems, as these innovations do more with less and challenge a more traditional knowledge flow from rich to poor countries. In this seminar, two leading experts will discuss their research, focusing on a case study from Brazil, and answer your questions.
Speakers on the day:
Dr Matthew Harris
ARC NWL Innovation and Evaluation Theme Lead and Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Imperial College London, will present his research on the concept of reverse innovation; biases, evidence frameworks and the background of Community Health and wellbeing workers in Brazil.
Dr Cornelia Junghans Minton
ARC NWL Adult Social Care Theme Lead and Senior Clinical Fellow in Primary Care and Social Care Lead in the School of Public Health at Imperial College London. She will discuss her work on the challenges in primary care, the West London case study and its impact.
For any queries or for further information please contact ahsc.news@imperial.ac.uk
Associated Research Themes
This event is supported by our Innovation and Evaluation theme and our Adult Social Care Theme in partnership with Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre
Best for You: Learning Network Event
Date: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Online
NIHR ARC Northwest London is hosting an event on the 23rd of May to share learning about the implementation and use of a Digital Hub that supports the mental health needs of children and young people. The Digital Hub is one element of Best for You, a programme that aims to deliver a new model of care to integrate young people’s mental health services within paediatric and emergency settings in northwest London.
The programme has been set up through partnerships between Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, West London NHS Trust, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and the CW+ charity. Best for You includes innovative services including a Day Service, a Young Peoples Centre, and a Community Partnership Programme as well as the Digital Hub.
The NIHR ARC Northwest London team is evaluating the programme with the aim of developing a model with the potential to be adopted in other parts of England/UK.
Evaluation Learning Network – Workshop #2: Conducting an evaluation
Date: Wednesday 24th May 2023
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Location: Online (MS Teams)
After an inaugural workshop series over the course of 2021 and 2022, the Evaluation Learning Network is back for its third year. We are delighted to announce the second of three NIHR ARC NWL Evaluation Learning Network Workshops of 2023. This year, we will once again cover how to plan for, conduct and effectively report and communicate the results of evaluations of healthcare innovations.
The Innovation & Evaluation Theme’s extensive experience in capacity building across the sector and suggestions about needs and aspirations of potential participants, have shaped the content and format of the Evaluation Learning Network.
The Evaluation Learning Network is intended to be a platform where participants can improve their evaluation expertise and receive support with their current evaluation projects.
The main objective of the Evaluation Learning Network will be to create an environment where you can:
improve your skills on evaluation,
access evaluation expertise provided by the NIHR ARC North-West London evaluation team and other partners,
access and exchange resources which can help you with your evaluation work,
share your experience and challenges on real projects with peers and experts.
Why is this important?
Innovation is an essential part of healthcare. Yet, even despite strong supporting evidence, not all new ideas, technologies or processes are widely used and adopted across the healthcare setting. Further, even when they are adopted, they may not have the desired effect, and may change the way healthcare is delivered in ways that were not anticipated.
A structured and well-planned evaluation can be an invaluable tool to better understand the effects and effectiveness of a newly implemented healthcare innovation. By providing a general roadmap for conducting evaluations, and supplementing this with real-world experiences from ongoing projects, we aim to provide our participants with the tools necessary to perform and conduct their own evaluations.
How will it work?
This is the second in a series of three workshops spread across the 2023 calendar year. This workshop will last 1 hour and cover topics pertaining to Conducting an evaluation, including:
Identifying information needs and data collection methods
How to ensure data quality
How to analyse and synthesize data
We will also welcome Laraib Ahmed as a guest speaker, who will share her experience and insights from conducting an evaluation of the Oral Health Programme at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
We will aim to make the workshop as interactive as possible (answering your questions and hearing about your evaluations throughout) to create a learning community environment.
Who is the workshop for?
We aim to target a wide range of professionals with an interest in the evaluation space, included but not limited to:
health professionals
improvement managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
programme/project managers
consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
researchers
academics
students
experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting.
If you are currently involved in an evaluation project and would like to share your experiences during one of the workshops, please reach out to us via the email address below.
Who are we?
We are a team of researchers based in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London. We are part of the Innovation & Evaluation Theme of the NIHR-funded ARC NWL. Our aim is to study and improve the uptake of evidence-based healthcare innovation through studying the implementation of new ideas in the healthcare sector.
Book your space
As places are limited, please confirm your attendance by completing this pre-course survey. Once you have completed the survey and your attendance has been confirmed, you will be sent an invite via MS Teams.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact Husa Aldossary.
Collaborative Learning Event:
Collaboration across health care communities: New relationships and alliances
Date: Wednesday 3 May 2023
Time: 9am - 2:30pm
Location: St Pauls Centre, Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PJ
Health and care systems continue to go through change and redesign - this affects work at every level. This event will explore how teams and individuals will need to adapt and adjust working relationships if the new Integrated Care Systems are to achieve collaborative working across the health and care communities.
Existing pressures have highlighted the need for a better connection across health and social care delivery. The lasting impacts of the pandemic, the crisis in social care and the development of new medical technologies all require new ways of working together. Structural redesign of systems needs to be accompanied by the development of new networks that deliver efficient care with kindness and compassion.
During the event, we will investigate the challenges of revising and developing the new networks essential to achieve effective integrated care in Northwest London, with improved patient care, population health and workforce morale.
Event overview:
What does change in health and care mean for the people working in the system?
Integrated Care Systems (ICS) aim to improve population health outcomes by developing local collaborations between teams and sectors. Effective integration between sectors, organisations and teams requires many people to work differently. Healthcare professionals both clinical and non-clinical will need to reassess and realign many of their working relationships and alliances. Such changes to working practices require trust between groups and the jettison of some traditional and historical ways of working. This is a difficult task at any time, but it is particularly challenging now at a time of considerable stress in the NHS.
This offers the opportunity to redesign care pathways tailored to the needs of the local populations, easing the navigation of care for patients and carers. For the changes to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and access to care, teams will need to be reconfigured and individuals will need to work differently. The difficulties of achieving this should not be underestimated, the event will explore this, and the role kindness and compassion have in supporting teams going through change.
Attendees will be asked to consider:
• what is known about how different groups in health care work together
• the types of support staff need to navigate change and realign their working practices
• the role for public health research in understanding how individuals can work together to become competent units
Event Schedule:
• 9:00am Event opens
• 9:00 - 9:45 Registration / Networking / Coffee / Fellowship Posters
• 9:45 – 9:50 Prof. Azeem Majeed Introduction and Welcome
• 9:50 – 10:05 Improvement Leader Fellowship Graduation
• 10:05 - 10:40 Keynote presentation - Dr Dominique Allwood
• 10:40 - 11:20 - Learning Lab with Dr Mable Nakubulwa and Dr Rowan Myron
• 11:20 - 11:45 COMFORT BREAK
• 11:45 - 12:45 Breakout session – Workshop with our research themes
• 12:50- 13:20 Panel discussion Chaired by Dr Fiona Moss
• 13:20 - 13:30 - Closing remarks - Prof. Azeem Majeed and Ganesh Sathyamoorthy
• 13:30 – 14:30 Lunch / Networking / Fellowship posters
*CPD Credits available for attendance.
Register:
Click here to visit the event microsite and to register your free place.
Community Research Champions - Health and Wellbeing Roadshows
NIHR ARC NWL, in partnership with local voluntary sector, Primary Care Networks and research organisations, aims to increase the diversity of people participating in research in NWL. The project will deliver 10 health roadshows within Brent and Hounslow, delivering key health and wellbeing support and checks.
Help create better healthcare for your community. Share stories and shape services by ensuring we understand the culture and needs of your community. Your health is in your hands.
To book your place for the Brent roadshows visit the CVS Bent website.
To get more information about the Hounslow roadshows contact juhi@ehcvs.org.uk or megha@ehcvs.org.uk
Upcoming Roadshows
Evaluation Learning Network – Workshop #1: Planning an evaluation
Date: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Location: Online (MS Teams)
After an inaugural workshop series over the course of 2021 and 2022, the Evaluation Learning Network is back for its third year. We are delighted to announce the first of three NIHR ARC NWL Evaluation Learning Network Workshops of 2023. This year, we will once again cover how to plan for, conduct and effectively report and communicate the results of evaluations of healthcare innovations.
The Innovation & Evaluation Theme’s extensive experience in capacity building across the sector and suggestions about needs and aspirations of potential participants, have shaped the content and format of the Evaluation Learning Network.
The Evaluation Learning Network is intended to be a platform where participants can improve their evaluation expertise and receive support with their current evaluation projects.
The main objective of the Evaluation Learning Network will be to create an environment where you can:
improve your skills on evaluation,
access evaluation expertise provided by the NIHR ARC North-West London evaluation team and other partners,
access and exchange resources which can help you with your evaluation work,
share your experience and challenges on real projects with peers and experts.
Why is this important?
Innovation is an essential part of healthcare. Yet, even despite strong supporting evidence, not all new ideas, technologies or processes are widely used and adopted across the healthcare setting. Further, even when they are adopted, they may not have the desired effect, and may change the way healthcare is delivered in ways that were not anticipated.
A structured and well-planned evaluation can be an invaluable tool to better understand the effects and effectiveness of a newly implemented healthcare innovation. By providing a general roadmap for conducting evaluations, and supplementing this with real-world experiences from ongoing projects, we aim to provide our participants with the tools necessary to perform and conduct their own evaluations.
How will it work?
This is the first in a series of three workshops spread across the 2023 calendar year. The first workshop will last 1 hour and cover topics pertaining to Planning an evaluation, including:
An introduction to complex and rapid evaluation in healthcare
Aid in establishing evaluation rationale and outcomes
Introduce programme theory and how it can be used in an evaluation
We will aim to make the workshop as interactive as possible to create a learning community environment. During the workshop you will have the opportunity to discuss your experience and challenges with evaluations with participants and ARC NWL experts.
Who is the workshop for?
We aim to target a wide range of professionals with an interest in the evaluation space, included but not limited to:
health professionals
improvement managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
programme/project managers
consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
researchers
academics
students
experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting.
If you are currently involved in an evaluation project and would like to share your experiences during one of the workshops, please reach out to us via the email address below.
Who are we?
We are a team of researchers based in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London. We are part of the Innovation & Evaluation Theme of the NIHR-funded ARC NWL. Our aim is to study and improve the uptake of evidence-based healthcare innovation through studying the implementation of new ideas in the healthcare sector.
Book your space
As places are limited, please confirm your attendance by completing this pre-course survey. Once you have completed the survey and your attendance has been confirmed, you will be sent an invite via MS Teams.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact Husa Aldossary at h.aldossary22@imperial.ac.uk.
Tweetchat: Our Journey Into AI
Date: Tuesday 15 November 2022
Time: 3pm
Location: ARC NWL Twitter
Join us next week for a live Tweetchat where we will discuss the initial findings from the participatory evaluation of a project co-created with public contributors onAI and Data Science.
This will be of interest to researchers, public contributors and PPI facilitators aiming to involve members of the public in AI and data science. We discuss the initial findings from the participatory evaluation (using creative methods) of the project that co-created with public contributors materials on AI and data science.
Follow and contribute questions using: #JourneyIntoAI
Associated Theme: Patient, Public, Community Engagement and Involvement
Evaluation Learning Network – Workshop #3: Reporting, Communication and Follow-up
Date: Tuesday 18th October 2022
Time: 12:30 – 13:30
Location: Online (MS Teams)
After an inaugural workshop series over the course of 2021, the Evaluation Learning Network is back for its second year. We are delighted to announce the final NIHR ARC NWL Evaluation Learning Network Workshops of 2022. This year, we will once again cover how to plan for, conduct and effectively report and communicate the results of evaluations of healthcare innovations.
The Innovation & Evaluation Theme’s extensive experience in capacity building across the sector and suggestions about needs and aspirations of potential participants have shaped the content and format of the Evaluation Learning Network.
The Evaluation Learning Network is intended to be a platform where participants can improve their evaluation expertise and receive support with their current evaluation projects.
The main objective of the Evaluation Learning Network will be to create an environment where you can:
improve your skills on evaluation
access evaluation expertise provided by the NIHR ARC North-West London evaluation team and other partners
access and exchange resources which can help you with your evaluation work
share your experience and challenges on real projects with peers and experts
Why is this important?
Innovation is an essential part of healthcare. Yet, even despite strong supporting evidence, not all new ideas, technologies or processes are widely used and adopted across the healthcare setting. Further, even when they are adopted, they may not have the desired effect, and may change the way healthcare is delivered in ways that were not anticipated.
A structured and well-planned evaluation can be an invaluable tool to better understand the effects and effectiveness of a newly implemented healthcare innovation. By providing a general roadmap for conducting evaluations, and supplementing this with real-world experiences from ongoing projects, we aim to provide our participants with the tools necessary to perform and conduct their own evaluations.
How will it work?
This is the third in a series of three workshops spread across the 2022 calendar year. This workshop will last 1 hour and cover topics pertaining to Reporting and Communication and Follow-up, including:
Consolidating results
Preparing and disseminating evaluation reports
Sharing findings and lessons learned
Using and following up on evaluations results
We will also welcome Dr Laura Lennox as a guest speaker, who will share her experience and insights from reporting and communicating the results of a recent evaluation she undertook.
We will aim to make the workshop as interactive as possible (answering your questions and hearing about your evaluations throughout) to create a learning community environment.
We will also plan to reserve some time at the end of the workshop to gather your feedback on the sessions you have attended throughout the year.
Who is the workshop for?
We aim to target a wide range of professionals with an interest in the evaluation space, included but not limited to:
health professionals
improvement managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
programme/project managers
consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
researchers
academics
students
experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting.
If you are currently involved in an evaluation project and would like to share your experiences during one of the workshops, please reach out to us via the email address below.
Who are we?
We are a team of researchers based in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London. We are part of the Innovation & Evaluation Theme of the NIHR-funded ARC NWL. Our aim is to study and improve the uptake of evidence-based healthcare innovation through studying the implementation of new ideas in the healthcare sector.
Book your space
As places are limited, please confirm your attendance by completing this pre-course survey. Once you have completed the survey and your attendance has been confirmed, you will be sent an invite via MS Teams.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact Mark Skopec at: mark.skopec17@imperial.ac.uk
Collaborative partnerships for healthier lives: Getting research into practice
Date: Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Time: 12:00 - 17:00
Location: Weston Hall, Ealing, London, W5 5RF
Lunch provided
Associated Theme: Collaborative Learning and Capacity Building
About the theme
Delivering centred patient-centred care and closing the translation gap in today’s health services, requires an understanding of care pathways and the impact of all roles “beyond the walls” of a single organisation.
Integrated care systems aim, through improved collaboration across teams and sectors, to deliver better outcomes for their populations. Patient and population outcomes are not determined by one person or one team, but through the quality of partnerships within the health and social care services that empower communities, the voices of patients and the public.
Effective collaboration between sectors, organisations, and communities requires, as well as organisational re-structuring, support for the many people in many teams whose way of working will change as collaboration becomes more effective. In developing a truly integrated organisation that reflects the interconnectedness of modern care delivery, relationships and responsibilities must be re-aligned across organisations and communities so that many people can work more collaboratively – and deliver better care and together be better prepared to adopt novel research findings.
It is now time for us to embrace this within health services research and explore the role we can play as facilitators and collaborators across the health and social care system.
Who is the event for?
Open to those who have an interest in translating evidence into practice and achieving improvements in health behaviours and population health, including but not limited to:
Patients/carers
GP’s/Practice Managers/Practice Nurses
NHS provider staff
Higher Education Institutions partners
NIHR Partners
Relevant third sector organisations/community champions
Local authority/ Social care partners/Public Health Directors and Commissioners
What will you gain?
Following the event, delegates will be able to:
Consider current partnership working within local health and social care in the context of research programmes and identify where collaboration across sectors could improve health delivery and outcomes
Identify current ways of working that might impede the implementation of health services research and where significant changes in practice might accelerate research translation
Consider how we actively coproduce and codesign with communities to accelerate the dissemination of health research into routine care at neighbourhood, place, and system levels
Reflect on how an understanding of collaborative practice might inform and improve the delivery of health services research and promote its importance to care
Find out more about what to expect by seeing what happened at our last event: 'Building Back Better'
AHSC & ARC NWL Joint Seminar Series: Happy healthy children: Implementing what we know
Happy healthy children: Implementing what we know
In collaboration with Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, we are pleased to announce our next webinar. The webinar will be co-presented by NIHR ARC NWL theme leads, Dr Dasha Nicholls and Professor Sonia Saxena.
Date: Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Time: 12:00 - 13.00
Location: Online via Zoom
Associated Themes: Child Population Health & Multimorbidity and Mental Health
Dr Dasha Nicholls, Clinical Reader in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Imperial College and Multimorbidity and Mental Health Theme Lead at NIHR ARC NWL, will talk about her work on mental health conditions in children and young people.
Professor Sonia Saxena, Professor of Primary Care, Director of the Imperial Child Health Unit at the School of Public Health and Child Population Health Theme Lead at NIHR ARC NWL, will discuss her work on how primary care can improve health across childhood.
The Climate Crisis and Mental Health: A Special Issue of the International Review of Psychiatry
Date: Tuesday 27 September 2022
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Location: Online (MS Teams)
Cost: Free
Associated Themes: Ethnicity & Health Unit and Multimorbidity and Mental Health
Signs of climate breakdown are evident across the globe. From wildfires in the US and Europe to heatwaves in India and Pakistan and heavy rainfall in the UK, record-breaking extreme weather events are occurring in every continent and increasing in frequency and intensity. What is unexpected, however, is the speed with which global warming even at the current level of 1C is resulting in climate chaos. Contrary to earlier scientific forecasts that temperatures would rise to over 40C by 2050 in the UK, this record has already been reached by the summer of 2022, prompting leading climate scientists to warn that the future is already here. We are informed that climate breakdown is inevitable and global leaders acknowledge that they are scared, as avoiding the most catastrophic outcomes is the best we can now do.
The fact that climate change is the biggest threat to global public health was recognised more than a decade ago but carbon emissions have simply continued to increase. Estimations of the direct health effects of aspects of climate change such as heat stress, floods, air pollution, food insecurity and the spread of vector-borne disease demonstrate that the global burden of morbidity and mortality is also increasing steeply on every continent. But, despite the recognition that the mental health toll is likely to be as severe, few efforts have been made to quantify this burden, study its extended impact on society, forecast its effects on socio-economic trends of the future or to explore ways by which the negative impacts could be addressed and hope could be harnessed to ensure the best societal outcomes for the future. This collection of research studies, commentaries and analyses attempts to remedy this gap, as it shines a light on this hitherto neglected area of the mental health and wellbeing impacts of climate change.
Join the guest editor Professor Mala Rao (Imperia l College London), Dr Adrian James (President, Royal College Psychiatrists) and authors from around the world for a one-hour webinar to mark the launch of a special issue of the International Review of Psychiatry on the climate crisis and mental health.
Save the date for the NIHR ARCs Implementation Workshop Series starting 19th September 2022
NIHR ARC Implementation Workshop Series - Save the Date Flyer.pdfClick above flyer to register for individual workshops available
Evaluation Learning Network – Workshop #2: Conducting an evaluation
Date: Tuesday 19 July 2022
Time: 12:30 – 13:30
Location: Online (MS Teams)
After an inaugural workshop series over the course of 2021, the Evaluation Learning Network is back for its second year. We are delighted to announce the second of three NIHR ARC NWL Evaluation Learning Network Workshops of 2022. This year, we will once again cover how to plan for, conduct and effectively report and communicate the results of evaluations of healthcare innovations.
The Innovation & Evaluation Theme’s extensive experience in capacity building across the sector and suggestions about needs and aspirations of potential participants, have shaped the content and format of the Evaluation Learning Network.
The Evaluation Learning Network is intended to be a platform where participants can improve their evaluation expertise and receive support with their current evaluation projects.
The main objective of the Evaluation Learning Network will be to create an environment where you can:
improve your skills on evaluation
access evaluation expertise provided by the NIHR ARC North-West London evaluation team and other partners
access and exchange resources which can help you with your evaluation work
share your experience and challenges on real projects with peers and experts
Why is this important?
Innovation is an essential part of healthcare. Yet, even despite strong supporting evidence, not all new ideas, technologies or processes are widely used and adopted across the healthcare setting. Further, even when they are adopted, they may not have the desired effect, and may change the way healthcare is delivered in ways that were not anticipated.
A structured and well-planned evaluation can be an invaluable tool to better understand the effects and effectiveness of a newly implemented healthcare innovation. By providing a general roadmap for conducting evaluations, and supplementing this with real-world experiences from ongoing projects, we aim to provide our participants with the tools necessary to perform and conduct their own evaluations.
How will it work?
This is the second in a series of three workshops spread across the 2022 calendar year. This workshop will last 1 hour and cover topics pertaining to Conducting an evaluation, including:
Identifying information needs and data collection methods
How to ensure data quality
How to analyse and synthesize data
We will also welcome Laraib Ahmed as a guest speaker, who will share her experience and insights from conducting an evaluation of the Oral Health Programme at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
We will aim to make the workshop as interactive as possible (answering your questions and hearing about your evaluations throughout) to create a learning community environment.
Who is the workshop for?
We aim to target a wide range of professionals with an interest in the evaluation space, included but not limited to:
health professionals
improvement managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
programme/project managers
consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
researchers
academics
students
experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting
If you are currently involved in an evaluation project and would like to share your experiences during one of the workshops, please reach out to us via the email address below.
Who are we?
We are a team of researchers based in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London. We are part of the Innovation & Evaluation Theme of the NIHR-funded ARC NWL. Our aim is to study and improve the uptake of evidence-based healthcare innovation through studying the implementation of new ideas in the healthcare sector.
Book your space
As places are limited, please confirm your attendance by completing this pre-course survey.
Once you have completed the survey and your attendance has been confirmed, you will be sent an invite via MS Teams.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact Mark Skopec at mark.skopec17@imperial.ac.uk
Welcoming and Valuing International Students
Date: 27 June 2022
Time: 13:00 14:00 BST
Location: Online
Background
International Medical Graduates (IMGs) have served the NHS since its inception. However, there has not been a standardised induction programme to enable IMGs to be integrated into NHS working and living in the UK. Meanwhile, substantial research evidence has become available to demonstrate the benefits of a comprehensive induction not only for the wellbeing and performance of IMGS but also to patient safety and the delivery of high-quality care.
A comprehensive induction programme has been in development since 2019 and is now ready to be implemented across NHS Trusts. The aim is to formally launch the induction programme on 27 June 2022.
A webinar is planned on the day, 27th June 2022 at 13:00 to 14:00. The aim of the webinar is to mark a key milestone in welcoming and valuing IMGs and disseminating information about the induction programme. The induction programme is testimony to the commitment, collaboration, and cooperation of all the appropriate NHS organisations, including NHSEI, HEE, BMA, GMC, and MPS. The launch is an opportunity to celebrate the collaboration and reflect on the need for the continuing partnership to support IMGs throughout their careers.
It is likely that Trusts will vary in the quality of induction they currently offer. But from the launch date, Trusts will be expected to plan a roadmap to achieve and deliver all aspects of the induction recommended in the guidance.
What are the objectives?
The purpose of this webinar is to:
Inform all interested NHS staff of the launch and describe the programme and how it may be delivered
Respond to questions from the participants
Encourage all staff to contribute formally or informally to welcoming and valuing IMGs into the NHS and to explain the key roles of NHS organisations to deliver the programme
Who is the intended audience?
The intended audience for the webinar includes, but is not limited to:
IMGs
All medical staff in NHS Trusts
Educational/Clinical Supervisors
Postgraduate Medical Education Departments (Director of Medical Education & Medical Education Managers)
HR Managers
Medical Directors & Responsible Officers
HEE Regional Associate Deans across UK
GMC Employer Liaison Advisers across UK
Medical Staffing Teams in NHS Trusts
GPs
Staff of People Directorates
Policy and system leaders
BMA and MPS policy teams
NIHR ARC NWL Collaborative Learning Event - ‘Road to Recovery: Working differently for a better future’
Date: 11 May 2022
Time: 12:00 – 17:00
Venue: St Paul’s Centre, Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PJ
Registrations are now open for our Collaborative Learning Event which will be held 11 May at St Paul’s Centre (Queen Caroline Street, W6 9PJ).
This will be our first in-person Collaborative Learning Event in nearly three years, and since then Covid has had a significant impact on health and social care services. We are inviting you to consider, how will you work differently to support the health and social care sectors as we recover from Covid?
We look forward to engaging with stakeholders, both new and old, to exemplify how we are working differently to ‘Build Back Better’. There will be interactive opportunities to hear about our work and engage with it. We are excited to come together and welcome you to make plans for progress, engage with you to guide and improve our shared learning.
About the theme
Covid has had a devastating impact on health and social care services, from waiting times to the psychological impact on frontline professionals. In September 2021, the UK Government released a new plan for health and social care.1 This included plans to tackle the Covid backlogs and significant investments to reform adult social care. As we look to recover from
the pandemic, we need to consider how we can work together to ‘Build Back Better’ with a focus on high quality health and social care services and improving population health. In our Collaborative Learning Event, we will explore the following questions:
· What are the priorities and risks for the health and social care systems in the recovery from Covid?
· What do we need to do differently to ensure that the health and social care systems can bounce back from the pandemic?
· How can we support the health and social care systems to work differently to respond to and meet the needs of local populations?
Who is the event for?
Open to those who have an interest in translating evidence into practice and achieving improvements in health behaviours and population health, including but not limited to:
· Patients/carers
· GP’s/Practice Managers/Practice Nurses
· NHS provider staff
· Higher Education Institutions partners
· NIHR Partners
· Relevant third sector organisations/community champions
· Local authority/ Social care partners/Public Health Directors and Commissioners
Book a space
For more information and to book your place: https://www.eventsforce.net/eventage/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=99595&eventID=195&CSPCHD=0000010000002fXKuRQdeGf$zamhlRzwTq1B1FnB5YI0vZ1teg
If you have any questions regarding the event, please do not hesitate to contact us at nihr.arc@imperial.ac.uk
Evaluation Learning Network – Workshop #1: Planning an evaluation
How to plan for, conduct and effectively report and communicate the results of evaluations of healthcare innovations.
Date: Thursday 7 April 2022
Time: 12:30 – 13:30
Location: Online (MS Teams)
Time: 12:30 – 13:30
Location: Online (MS Teams)
After an inaugural workshop series over the course of 2021, the Evaluation Learning Network is back for its second year. We are delighted to announce the first of three NIHR ARC NWL Evaluation Learning Network Workshops of 2022.
The NIHR ARC NWL Innovation & Evaluation Theme’s extensive experience in capacity building across the sector and suggestions about needs and aspirations of potential participants, have shaped the content and format of the Evaluation Learning Network.
The Evaluation Learning Network is intended to be a platform where participants can improve their evaluation expertise and receive support with their current evaluation projects.
The main objective of the Evaluation Learning Network will be to create an environment where you can:
improve your evaluation skills
access evaluation expertise provided by the NIHR ARC North-West London evaluation team and other partners
access and exchange resources which can help you with your evaluation work
share your experience and challenges on real projects with peers and experts
Why is this important?
Innovation is an essential part of healthcare. Yet, even despite strong supporting evidence, not all new ideas, technologies or processes are widely used and adopted across the healthcare setting. Further, even when they are adopted, they may not have the desired effect, and may change the way healthcare is delivered in ways that were not anticipated.
A structured and well-planned evaluation can be an invaluable tool to better understand the effects and effectiveness of a newly implemented healthcare innovation. By providing a general roadmap for conducting evaluations, and supplementing this with real-world experiences from ongoing projects, we aim to provide our participants with the tools necessary to perform and conduct their own evaluations.
How will it work?
This is the first in a series of three workshops spread across the 2022 calendar year. The first workshop will last 1 hour and cover topics pertaining to Planning an evaluation, including:
An introduction to complex and rapid evaluation in healthcare
Aid in establishing evaluation rationale and outcomes
Introduce programme theory and how it can be used in an evaluation
We will aim to make the workshop as interactive as possible (answering your questions and hearing about your evaluations throughout) to create a learning community environment. During the workshop we will conduct some practical exercises on your evaluations so that you can leave the workshop with some work done.
Who is the workshop for?
We aim to target a wide range of professionals with an interest in the evaluation space, including but not limited to:
Health professionals
Improvement Managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
Programme/Project Managers
Consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
Researchers
Academics
Students
Experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting
If you are currently involved in an evaluation project and would like to share your experiences during one of the workshops, please reach out to us via the email address below.
Who are we?
We are a team of researchers based in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London. We are part of the Innovation & Evaluation Theme of the NIHR-funded ARC NWL. Our aim is to study and improve the uptake of evidence-based healthcare innovation through studying the implementation of new ideas in the healthcare sector.
Book your space
As places are limited please confirm your attendance by completing this pre-course survey.
Once you have completed the survey and your attendance has been confirmed, you will be sent an invite via MS Teams.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact Mark Skopec: mark.skopec17@imperial.ac.uk
Which women in Northwest London are getting their flu vaccines in pregnancy? Sharing our research findings
A workshop with NIHR ARC Northwest London to help understand how we can best communicate the findings of our research into flu vaccination during pregnancy.
Date: Wednesday 19 January 2022
Time: 10:30-11:30am
Location: Online (via Zoom)
We would like to invite you to an online Zoom meeting about flu vaccines for pregnant women.
Parents and families in Northwest London and also health and social care professionals who may work with families in Northwest London are invited.
We are a team of researchers at Imperial College London and we have recently done a study looking at which pregnant women are getting their flu vaccine in Northwest London. We want to get feedback on how we can make sure our research makes a difference to the health and care of women and their babies in Northwest London.
The purpose of this work is to improve health and care for women and their children living in Northwest London, and we’d like to speak with members of the public, and those working with pregnant women, to receive input from our community.
Why is this important?
In the UK, like other countries, pregnant women are advised to be vaccinated against flu. This is because pregnant women are at higher risk of being seriously ill if they get flu. The vaccine is a safe and effective way to protect women and their unborn babies.
We are researchers from Imperial College London and we are doing research into which pregnant women in Northwest London get the flu vaccine and which don’t. We want to improve healthcare for women in Northwest London and increase the number of women who get protected against flu.
How will it work?
You can help by joining our event will be online using Zoom. We will introduce the issue, share our findings, and give you an opportunity to feed back to us on how we might best communicate these findings to support improvement in health and care for women in Northwest London and beyond.
Some questions you might like to think about during the session:
What do you understand about our research?
Which parts make sense to you, and which are confusing?
What’s missing, and are there any unnecessary parts?
Who are we?
A group of researchers based at Imperial College London and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Our Applied Research Collaboration (ARC), Northwest London, is a programme of research aiming to improve health and care through applied health research.
Book you space
We would be delighted if you are able to attend – please let us know if you will be attending by emailing Gloria Ihenetu on: g.ihenetu@imperial.ac.uk, with subject 'Flu vaccines in pregnancy workshop'.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch on the above email address.
NIHR ARC Northwest London Evaluation Learning Network Workshop
Date: 27 October 2021 from (12:30 – 13:30)
Location: MS Teams
Date: 27 October 2021 from (12:30 – 13:30)
Location: MS Teams
Our Innovation and Evaluation Team invite you to the next and final ARC North-west London Evaluation Learning Network Workshop.
The Evaluation Learning Network is a platform where participants can improve their evaluation expertise and receive support with their current evaluation projects. After previously covering Conducting the Evaluation, our final workshop will focus on Reporting and Communication and follow-up.
The 1-hour workshop will discuss:
Consolidating results
Preparing and disseminating evaluation reports
Sharing findings and lessons learned
Using and following up on evaluation results
We will have several open-ended questions to prompt discussion, but if you have anything specific that you wish to feedback to us, please be prepared to do so at the meeting. Or, if you would prefer, simply email mark.skopec17@imperial.ac.uk your comments and suggestions.
Feel free to share this invitation with people you think might be interested, such as:
Health professionals and improvement managers engaged in quality improvement projects in the NHS
Programme/ project managers, consultants or other professionals working on/ interested in evaluation in the health and social care setting
Researchers, academics, and experts with an interest in evaluation in the health and social care setting
Service users or members of the public interested in learning more about evaluation in healthcare
We will reserve some time at the end of the workshop to gather your feedback on the sessions you have attended throughout the year. As we would like to continue holding these sessions in the future, your comments and suggestions will be invaluable to improving this offering going forward.
> Book your place: https://mskopec.aidaform.com/evaluation-and-learning-network-pre-registration-form-copy
As places are limited, please confirm your attendance as soon as possible using this pre-registration link. You will then receive a confirmation email and calendar invite for the meeting.
NIHR ARC NWL Collaborative Learning Event – 'Making a difference'
Date: 2 November 2021
Time: 13:30 - 16:30
Location: Online
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
Unfortunately, due to the continuing rise of COVID-19 cases and hospital admissions we have taken the decision to run the NIHR ARC NWL Learning Event, scheduled for 2 November, online. We were very much looking forward to welcoming you all to the St Paul's Centre for our first gathering in 2 years but feel it would just not be appropriate to do so at this time. We will look to meet in person in Spring 2022.
If you have already registered for the meeting, we will be in touch with details of the online meeting which will follow the same programme and timings as originally planned with the first session beginning at 1330hrs.
The full programme can be viewed here.
If you have not yet registered there is still time to do so. Please book your place by registering now.
Registration is now open for the NIHR ARC NWL Learning Event.
We are looking forward to welcoming our friends and colleagues to an online virtual Collaborative Learning Event.
> Book your place here: https://www.eventsforce.net/arcnwl21
As always, you will hear from a range of inspirational speakers and members of the NIHR ARC NWL Themes about the work they are doing in applied health research.
We look forward to seeing you virtually at the NIHR ARC NWL Collaboritive Learning Event.
ARC NWL's June Evaluation Learning Network
Welcoming all clinicians, researchers or NHS managers based in Northwest London who are evaluating projects!
If you extra support with your ongoing evaluation projects come and join us for our Evaluation Learning Network workshop.
Delivered by the Innovation and Evaluation Theme at ARC NWL
30th June 2021 from 12:30 to 13:30 via Microsoft Teams
NIHR ARC NWL Invites You to Register for our online learning event taking place on Tuesday 20 April 2021. The event will run from 1330hrs to 1630hrs with additional time for networking in virtual breakout rooms from 1245hrs - 1330hrs and 1630hrs – 1715hrs.
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London (NIHR ARC NWL), is part of the NIHR and launched on the 1st of October 2019, as a local collaborative programme in healthcare improvement, to tackle the biggest healthcare challenges of this generation.
The NIHR ARC NWL will undertake high-quality applied health and care research and work across local health and care systems to close the second translational gap by supporting implementation of research and will work collectively with ARCs in other parts of England to ensure national impact.
The programme will be conducted via four research themes and three cross-cutting themes with the overarching goal to: build sustainable infrastructure for continual improvement in health behaviours and population health, and a reduction in health inequalities for the people of north west London.
This online event will welcome attendees old and new involved with the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration for Northwest London. Attendees will have an opportunity to hear from our Themes and from our plenary speakers on ‘Working together to improve healthcare’.
The NIHR ARC NWL Spring Learning Event: Working together to improve healthcare, has been approved by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom for 3 category 1 (external) CPD credit(s). Activity code: 135103.
More information on the event and the speakers can be found at https://www.eventsforce.net/arcnwl2021
Tweet and follow on the day via our hashtag: #ARCeventNWL @ARC_NWL
Download presentations from the day
1330_Welcome and introduction_Azeem.pdf1345_working together_primarycare_Mateen.pdf1405_working together acutecare_Lucy.pdfNIHR ARC NWL's Evaluation Learning Network
Are you a clinician, researcher or NHS manager based in Northwest London doing evaluations?
Do you extra support with your ongoing evaluation projects?
Come and join the Evaluation Learning Network workshop delivered by the Innovation and Evaluation Theme at ARC NWL
17 March 2021 from 12:30 to 13:30 via Microsoft Teams
NIHR ARC NWL's Evaluation Learning Network
Are you a clinician, researcher or NHS manager based in Northwest London doing evaluations?
Do you extra support with your ongoing evaluation projects?
Come and join the Evaluation Learning Network workshop delivered by the Innovation and Evaluation Theme at ARC NWL.
2 December 2020 12:30 – 13:30
The next Evaluation Learning network workshop will focus on an introduction to evaluation stages, main challenges in healthcare and tips on improving evaluation plans for improvement projects.
NIHR ARC NWL invites you to register for our online learning event
Thursday 19 November 2020 from 13.30 – 16.30
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London (NIHR ARC NWL), is part of the NIHR and launched on the 1st of October 2019, as a local collaborative programme in healthcare improvement, to tackle the biggest healthcare challenges of this generation.
The NIHR ARC NWL will undertake high-quality applied health and care research and work across local health and care systems to close the second translational gap by supporting implementation of research and will work collectively with ARCs in other parts of England to ensure national impact.
The programme will be conducted via four research themes and three cross-cutting themes with the overarching goal to - build sustainable infrastructure for continual improvement in health behaviours and population health, and a reduction in health inequalities for the people of north west London.
This online event will welcome delegates old and new involved with the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration for Northwest London. Delegates will have an opportunity to hear from our Themes and from our plenary speakers on ‘Enabling person centred care’ and ‘Personalising care’. You will also be able to participate in a panel discussion on ‘Health and wellbeing: Making it easy to get involved'.
Download presentations from the day
Child Population Health Theme.pdfCommunity Voices_Conversations for change_Samira Ben Omar.pdfCollaborative Learning and Capacity Building Theme.pdfDigital Health Theme.pdfInnovation and Evaluation Theme.pdfMultimorbidity Theme.pdfNW London NIHR ARC Nov 2020_Azeem Majeed.pdfPersonalising care through health coaching approaches_Arti Maini.pdfRe-live the day - follow our hashtag to keep the conversation going.
#ARCeventNWL
NIHR ARC Cardiovascular Disease meeting
NIHR ARC NWL invites you to join us at our Cardiovascular Disease Meeting
7 February 2020 9.30 – 16.00
Friends House, 173 - 177 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Agenda_NIHR ARC CVD meeting 30-01-2020.docx
Launch Event
National Institute for Health Research
Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London
13 November 2019 (12.30 – 16.30 )
St.Paul’s Centre, Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PJ
Presentations from the day:
Welcome and Introduction to NIHR ARC NWL
Professor Azeem Majeed - Director, NIHR ARC NWL
Introduction to the NIHR ARC Themes
Child population Health
Digital Health
Multi-morbidity and frailty
Innovation and evaluation
Patient, Public, community engagement
Collaborative learning and capacity building
Information and intelligence
Mental Health
Health Economics
