Dr Joanne Hartland
Research and Development Programme Manager
Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative
The CARE Seminars and the Bigger Picture
•What is APCRC
•What does APCRC do, and how do we do it
•Key Examples
•Facing the Challenges of the Future
What is APCRC?
NHS Bristol NHS North Somerset
NHS South Gloucestershire
•Pooling Resources
•Economies of Scale – expert team on hand
•A louder stronger voice for Primary Care Research
•Stronger partnerships
•Keeping primary care research and the key concerns
on the agenda
What does APCRC do? (i)
Research Governance and NHS Trust Approval
•For All projects being undertaken in our area
•Ensure we meet targets for speed
•Clarifying costs
•More studies
•More recruitment
•Annual Audit
What does APCRC do? (i)
Number and Value of Open Research Projects
250
Forcast (July
Value of grants up to
2010-March
July 2010= £61 million
200 2011)
Number of Projects
Value of grants= £54 Non-Portfolio
million Projects
150
Value of grants= £37
million
Portfolio adopted
Value of grants= £32
100 Projects
million
50
0
2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11
What does APCRC do? (ii)
• Mainstreaming evaluation
– Structured tool developed
– 77 new evaluations started between July 09
and March 10
– Embedding Evaluation into the Commissioning
process
• Evaluation - Skills development
– In house training
– UWE Evaluation module
• Evaluation - Learning dissemination
– Quarterly reports to governance committees
– Clinical Audit, Research and Evaluation seminars –
Conference today and seminars beyond
What does APCRC do? (iii)
•Supporting the development of research
•Encouraging relationships and ideas
•Partnerships
•Supporting bids for funding
•Acting as host to large grants as NHS Partner
•Taking on the management of those grants
•FSF to promote more good work – a virtuous
circle ….
How we do what we do - the virtuous circle
FSF paid the Support for
following year researchers
in recognition
of success
Successful
bids for
funding –
research
grants
awarded
How we do
Provider Services
what we •General Practice
Community Development
do… Workers
Nursing & Midwifery
Public Health Specialists
Allied Health Professionals
APCRC Dentistry
Optometry
Partnerships Pharmacy
NHS NHS South
Bristol Gloucestershire
APCRC
Commissioning Service Users Avon and
•Service Development •Patients Wiltshire Mental
Service Improvement Carers Health
Programme Managers NHS Partnership
Patient Advice & Liaison
GP commissioning North Services Trust
organisations Somerset Charities e.g. Stillbirth and North University
Public Health Directorate Neonatal Death Society Bristol Hospitals
Strategic Service Improvement Voluntary Groups e.g. Local Trust Bristol
Fund (SSIF) Group Involvement Networks,
Bluebell Nurses Research Weston
Design General
Service Hospital
Department NICE
of Health NHS South
West
Key Examples -projects we support and host
• PROVIDE - Improving the response of health
services to domestic violence (£2million)
• DISCOVERY - Diagnosis of Symptomatic Cancer
(£2million)
• TARGET - Improving the quality of care for children
with respiratory tract infections in primary care
(£1.6million)
• FAST – First Aid and Safety Training for parents
(£400k)
• Interventions to reduce unplanned hospital
admission (£240k)
• ANTICIPATE – CBT for antenatal depression
(£250k)
• Script in day (£250k)
• REDUCE (£280k)
Facing the challenges of the future
•Influencing the research agenda
•Feeding research results back into practice
•Improving health outcomes
•Providing good service across the board –
RM&G and beyond
•Evaluation and service improvement
•Informing the commissioning process
•Contributing to value for money
•Building links with new commissioners
•Sharing good ideas and practice
•CARE seminars
APCRC Team
Dr Peter Brindle Sally Cottrell
R&D Strategic Lead Head of Evaluation
peter.brindle@nhs.net sally.cottrell@bristol.nhs.uk
Dr Joanne Hartland Joanne Simon
R&D Programme Manager Research Manager
o.hartland@bristol.nhs.uk joanne.simon@bristol.nhs.uk
Rachel Wyson Miles Jordan
Research Governance Manager R&D Administrator
rachel.wyson@bristol.nhs.uk miles.jordan@bristol.nhs.uk
Ros Woodcraft Jo Plumb
Research Governance Officer Evaluation Manager
Ros.woodcraft@bristol.nhs.uk jo.plumb@bristol.nhs.uk
www.apcrc.nhs.uk 0117 984 1536