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This work is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) West Midlands. 
The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of
the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health
Welcome to the inaugural edition of our NIHR CLAHRC West Midlands News Blog
This will be the first in a series of a regular emails combining both news from CLAHRC WM and thought-provoking, enlightening blog posts from our Director and Co-Directors. 
We hope you find this, and future, News Blogs both relevant and useful.
Director & Co-Directors' Blog

On the High Prevalence of Mental Disorders

There are a very large number of different mental disorders, at least according to the recent American Psychiatric Association diagnostic classification. More to the point of this blog, certain mental disorders are also extremely common – in particular, depression.
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CLAHRC Events

1-3 Apr 2014
CLAHRC Learning Together Event: Designing Healthcare through Proactive Risk Management. University of Cambridge.
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CLAHRC News

We are delighted to report that the West Midlands has been awarded £10million from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to evaluate and develop health services over the next five years, continuing the success of CLAHRC-BBC pilot.
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Publications & Grants of the Month

Singh SP, Winsper C, Wolke D, Bryson A. School Mobility and Prospective Pathways to Psychotic-Like Symptoms in Early Adolescence: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2014. In Press.

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Director's Choice - From the Journals

We are familiar with randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in healthcare, education, criminology, and social policy, but what about business management?
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CLAHRC International

There is an international trend to create a new type of health professional to provide front line diagnostic and therapeutic care.
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CLAHRC Profile
Dr Jamie Coleman
Dr Jamie Coleman
Jamie Coleman is a clinical academic who holds a HEFCE-funded senior lecturership in Clinical Pharmacology and Medical Education. He is currently head of year 3 of the MBChB programme, Therapeutics Lead for the BDS Dentistry course, and a senior clinical examiner for Year 5 MBChB in Medicine and Therapeutics. He also chairs the National Prescribing Skills Assessment Board, is a member of the Pharmacovigilance Expert Advisory Group of the MHRA and sits on the British National Formulary Advisory Board.
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CLAHRC BITEs

We have developed a number of accessible bite-sized pieces of research - CLAHRC BITEs (Brokering Innovation Through Evidence)which aim to summarise findings from our published work and make recommendations for practice for health and social staff locally and beyond.

Newly published BITEs will be detailed in future editions of our News Blog, and a list of previously published BITEs can be found here
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