professor mike cooke, clahrc east midlands launch welcome

CLAHRC East Midlands is hosted by

Nottinghamshire Healthcare

Professor Mike Cooke, CBEChair, CLAHRC East Midlands

Welcome to the launch ofCLAHRC East Midlands

• We build on 2 successful CLAHRCs – - Notts, Derby Lincs [NDL] & Leics, Northants, Rutland [LNR] [2009-

2013]• Is what we know what we do?• Not enough of the time – but things are changing!• We launch today’s CLAHRC with high ambition• Key ingredients:

• World class researchers• Focussed on long term conditions• Diffuse how to avoid, delay onset, ‘optimise’, improve health gain• Good leadership, diffusion, 55 Partners

CONTEXT FOR TODAY

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• ‘To CLAHRC’ is a verb now• Pick large scale topics – collaborating with other CLAHRCs• Accelerate applied research findings• Create a ‘receptive context’ in all partner organisations• Be universal across all• Diffuse the applied research findings faster in the East Midlands• Work with the rest of NIHR ‘family’ and Academic Health Science

Network• Scale, width AND pace

A MATURE CLAHRC?

Overall CLAHRCs [9] years 1-4 [2009-2012]

• 754 Research projects• 454 Implemented projects• 903 Peer reviewed publications• £54m External income generated• 281 Higher Degrees• 2,619,289 Subjects recruited

CLAHRC NDL

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• Reframed relationships– Service facing researchers meet research facing clinicians– Research leading to innovation uptake, increased capacity

Plus- Diffusion Fellows [DFs]- Research into Practice Placements [RIPPLES]- Brokering Innovation Through Evidence [BITE]- ‘Inside Out of Mind’ – a play for us all/1200 Healthcare Assistants

…… MUCH, MUCH MORE

Let us be ambitious, collaborative and focus on patient and population benefit as per our NHS Constitution.

MY LEARNING TO DATE – ‘TO CLAHRC’

Thank you for listening

This research was funded by the National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care East Midlands (NIHR CLAHRC EM). The views expressed in this presentation are those of

the speaker(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health.

Mike.Cooke@nottshc.nhs.uk

www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk

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