Today's Projects
1) Romani Reaching Out Mental Awareness
A public health initiative which aims to improve access to mental health services for Romani families in the Cambridge/Suffolk area The team would like to run a short training programme to help people from Romani families understand and recognise psychosis, and know how and when to ask for help. There is extensive evidence that the mental and physical health of Romani Travellers are significantly less good than average in the UK, and that they are less likely to ask for help at earlier stages of illness. The Romani people will be represented directly via two of the coapplicants who have Romani heritage They also plan to troubleshoot the planned training with a small group of employees and volunteers at OneVoice 4 Travellers, a charity based in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk
Theme: Population health management
2) PINCH - the role of Pharmacist Non-medical Prescribers (NMPs) in the local workforce
This project will address several questions, including: How do NHS Trusts in our region currently use Pharmacist NMPs? Are there any national plans in place for expansion of the role in 2026? How could local Trusts position themselves to maximise benefit?
Theme: Workforce development
3) Measuring the Impact of Social Prescribing on Reducing Health Inequalities using a Population Health Management Approach
This project will use population health management data to identify groups of people experiencing health inequalities and use social prescribing to pro-actively connect people to community-based support
By social prescribing we mean connecting people through a link worker with activities and services that can improve their health and wellbeing focused on their interests e.g. a walking programme to support social connection and overcome anxiety, singing for health classes for people with breathing problems, dance and movement classes for people with balance problems like Parkinson’s disease and a range of housing and financial advice to help with social support
Theme: Population health management.
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4) An observational study to investigate the body’s insulin response to tissue injury and why some people have impaired tissue healing
The stress response to acute tissue injury is a highly developed survival mechanism activated in response to life threatening tissue injury Acute tissue injury occurs in a wide range of different clinical settings including for example trauma, haemorrhage, burns, surgery, sepsis, acute myocardial infarction and stroke. This is a medically driven study in its early stage of development by a consultant specialising in anaesthesia and intensive care.
Theme: Improved urgent and emergency care / long term conditions.
5) Is birthweight associated with adult, obesity associated asthma?
The research team believe that birth weight is a risk factor for obesity associated asthma. If the team can show this, they may be able to put interventions in place from early life to prevent asthma in this group of patients If they can find a simple educational tool that keeps this population within normal weight throughout their life, it will be a costeffective treatment that will prevent asthma in this selected group who make up approximately 15% of the GP population of asthmatics. Although the research design is not clear the project lead thinks that they should study a group of patients over a period of time known as a longitudinal cohort study.
Theme: Population health management
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Wall of Experts
Carrie Jackson took up her current role as Research Director for UEAHSCP in January 2022 where she heads up our team She brings a strong track record of multidisciplinary practice led research, innovation, curriculum design and workforce development from diverse settings.
ce developer, she is passionate about working with people to co-produce solutions to support service improvement focused on what matters to people to enhance quality of life and wellbeing.
She has led large academic departments in a number of University settings, helped to establish new business models and founded a national centre for applied health research in the UK You can follow Carrie on Twitter @IPDCarrie or connect with her on LinkedIn Overviews of Carrie’s papers are available via her UEA research portal page
Today,wehaveanarrayofexpertstofacilitateourprojects We'regratefulforthesupport,collaborationandcontributionofour facilitators-thankyouforjoiningustoday. Introducing,inalphabeticalorder:
Garry Barton is a Professor of Health Economics at the University of East Anglia (https://researchportal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/garry-barton) and Deputy Director of the East of England Research Design Service (RDS) (http://www.rds-eoe.nihr.ac.uk/). His main area of expertise is in the application and development of the
methods of economic evaluation, Garry is also a member of the Norwich Clinical Trials Unit https://norwichctu.uea.ac.k/.
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Vicky Adams is a Research Grants Advisor for the Research and Evaluation Team at NHS Norfolk and Waveney ICB.
Dr Jean Craig is a Research Adviser with the NIHR Research Design Service (RDS) for the East of England The RDS provides support on all aspects of developing and writing funding applications, including research design and methods, identifying funding sources and involving patients and the public.
Since joining the RDS in April 2010, Jean has supported nurses, midwives, Allied Health Professionals, doctors and academics with grant applications covering a wide range of topics, study designs and funding streams Jean works closely with the Norwich Clinical Trials Unit, contributing to the Trial Adoption Meetings.
Jane Cross is a mixed methods researcher with a particular interest in developing and testing complex interventions for people with long term conditions Previous work included PERFECTED, which developed and tested a care pathway for people with cognitive impairment and hip fracture Currently she Co-leads 2 further NIHR programmes with Professor Chris Fox developing interventions to improve care for people with Dementia and their families
Now in year 2 - CareCoach will develop, implement, and test an intervention for carers of people with dementia that aims to improve caregiver self-efficacy, mastery and quality of life
Elizabeth Davison is a Research Associate at the Centre for Interprofessional Practice at Norwich Medical School. Elizabeth has been involved in the delivery and evaluation of a healthcare assistant project for Gateway Year 0 and Year 1 medical students since 2017, and has studied the impact of medical students working as healthcare assistants and the impact on medical student's future values and practice, together with Joanna Semlyen and Susanne Lindqvist Elizabeth’s recent research investigated the impact on healthcare assistants of mentoring medical students in raising their profile within the workplace as valid and important members of the MDT She will shortly begin a study investigating the long-term impact on medical students who have previously worked as healthcare assistants and have since qualified as doctors.
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n P Hammond is an applied psychologist, Lecturer in n in UEA's School of Education and Lifelong and Honorary Associate Professor at Norfolk and NHS Foundation Trust. He is a member of Ofcom’s h Working Group and United Kingdom Centre for Safety (UKCIS) Vulnerable Users Working Group and leads UEAHSCP's Looked After Children’s Mental Health Research Network (LANTERN)
Dr Nicola Hancock is Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Innovation at the University of East Anglia and supports a broad portfolio of world-leading innovative activity across the University. Nicola is also a Lecture/Researcher in Physiotherapy in the School of Health Sciences, specialising in neurological rehabilitation.
Her research explores solutions to enable rehabilitation and recovery from stroke, including co-design and evaluation of new and existing technologies and services. Nicola is a past member of the influential Intercollegiate Stroke Working Party, responsible for the UK National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke, and speaks internationally on neurorehabilitation research, innovation and quality improvement
Lisa McDaid is a Research Advisor for the National Institute for Health (NIHR) Research Design Service East of England. Her areas of expertise include qualitative methodology, patient and public involvement and behavioural intervention development and evaluation Alongside this, Lisa has extensive experience leading on qualitative research studies in the areas of smoking cessation, sexual health and medication adherence She is currently working on a NIHR funded study to explore the feasibility of translating NHS care for pregnancy smoking cessation into a digital support package Lisa also coordinates the UEA Addiction Research Public Involvement Panel and is a member of the UEA Citizens Academy steering group.
Michael Twigg is Head of Research Design and Evaluation and NHS Norfolk and Waveney and Associate Professor of Primary Care Pharmacy at UEA.
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About UEA Health and Social Care Partners
Are you a practitioner, clinician, citizen, or academic researcher working in Health and Social Care? We can help maximise your research impact.
Together we fund citizen led early-stage research and innovation projects that transform the quality of our services, our workforce, and the lives of the communities we serve; and develop networks and ensure meaningful, sustainable patient and public engagement, focusing on key themes:
Population Health Management, reducing inequalities and supporting prevention
Improving Mental Health
Management of long-term conditions and multimorbidity
Improving integrated urgent and emergency care
Healthy ageing
Learning disability and autism
Workforce development and sustainability
Advances in technology and medical science to improve care delivery
Children, Young People and Family health and wellbeing
Palliative and End of Life Care
Cross cutting themes include economic evaluation, organisational and system transformation and co-production methodologies
Our partnership is expanding the region’s capacity for high quality collaborative research and innovation to address the most pressing challenges affecting our population health and wellbeing
Our Partners
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
Norfolk County Council
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
University of East Anglia
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
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Our Associate Members
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
Community360
East Coast Community Healthcare CIC
East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Eastern ARC
Health Tech Enterprise
Healthwatch Essex
Integrated Care 24
Norfolk and Suffolk Culture Board
Norfolk Green Care Network
Benefits of Associate Membership
We have strong collaborative networks with a wide range of research funding bodies, and organisations working together across our region to improve health and care services
We have a wealth of expertise at our fingertips to enable you to gain access to and support from leading academics, researchers and practitioners as well as sharing and cascading best practice, new evidence and innovations.
We hold frequent webinars, conferences and events to connect people with ideas to people who can help develop these into real world projects with impact
We welcome inquiries from community and voluntary sector organisations applying either as individual organisations or as consortia.
Visit out website ueahscp com or email the team at ueahscp@uea ac uk
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