POWERED BY PEOPLE

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My nanna, who I adored and who was a typical Liverpool matriarch, left Liverpool when she was younger – back in the 50s – to live and work in Africa with my grandad. She was just a girl from the city, but her tales of her time in Africa, her courage and her spirit of adventure gave me the sense of what can be achieved with a readiness to take a leap of faith.

“This research is only what people like her deserve – something that is going to change lives. The experts are here, within our university and our clinics and wards, supported by our service users and carers.

“We’re creating an infrastructure. M-RIC’s funding isn’t for buildings and ‘things’, we’re harnessing the power of people to completely turn the tide.

“It will happen round the corner from where someone lives, close to their homes. In the way we use our phones to make a shopping list we could track symptoms; we could keep a diary of how we’re feeling that we can share with our doctor or nurse next time we’re in clinic. We have the funding we rightly deserve, to do things the way we know we can do it.”