Welcome to CLAHRC Greater Manchester Highlights

We are delighted to be able to let you know about some of the highlights of CLAHRC Greater Manchester’s work. We started our programme of work in January 2014 and lots of projects are already underway. We are learning about how to work together effectively to achieve our vision: to create true and enduring partnerships that deliver high quality research which improves healthcare and has impact in Greater Manchester and beyond.

Our highlights include evaluation of innovative primary care services, work with partners to improve care for people with mental and physical health challenges, and establishment of our networks to support improved wound care across Greater Manchester. This isn’t all we do: details of all our projects and partners can be found in our short leaflet. We also focus on engaging with our partners; this has recently involved presenting at conferences and seminars as well as developing relationships locally and nationally. In addition, we have captured learning on pragmatic evaluation from an international expert which is now available as a series of short videos available on our website. CLAHRC Greater Manchester (CLAHRC GM) is committed to developing capacity to do more applied research and so we have recently funded both PhD and MRes studentships - this is the first step in our capacity development programme and we will make sure that we let you know about future opportunities.

If you aren’t sure quite what CLAHRC GM is, or what it does, you can find out more through this presentation, in our leaflet or on our website. We are funded by the National Institute for Health Research and our partners: providers and commissioners from the NHS, industry, and the third sector who provide ‘matched funding’ in cash and in kind, mainly through staff time. Our team comprises staff from the NHS, the University of Manchester, and other partners. We collaborate (that’s the “C” part of CLAHRC) to achieve our objectives:

• Innovating through research - generating new knowledge about ‘what’ works and ‘how’ to improve care

• Getting evidence into practice - using evidence-based approaches

• Showing the difference it makes - to patients, teams, stakeholders and organisations locally and more widely

• Developing people and organisations - through partnership, supporting research capacity development.

We look forward to providing more highlights of our work very soon and collaborating with you in order to develop research that makes a difference.

Ruth Boaden,

Director, CLAHRC GM, and Professor, Manchester Business School.