Executives, Board Members and Senior Managers

Board Chairs

Where you can make a difference:

• Setting the tone within the trust that research is integral to achieving best care

Your influence is high in:

• Ensuring that health and care research activity is reported to the board alongside other performance measures

• Raising awareness with leaders that evidence shows there is a correlation between level of research activity and overall service user outcomes in many organisations

Executives

Where you make a difference:

• Confirming there is a research strategy underpinned with outcome metrics and ensuring performance is routinely reported by team leads

Your influence is high in:

• Inspiring and ensuring support for an embedded research culture contributing to care in the organisation across all levels

Non-Executive Board Members

Where you make a difference:

• Keeping a watching brief on development of a strong research culture and ensuring a research strategy and plan is reported against by teams at Board meetings and any issues followed up.

Your influence is high in:

• Highlighting the need for building a strong research culture in your care organisation

• Ensuring systems for reporting research activity and impact are followed through

Senior Managers

Where you make a difference:

• Having an awareness of health and care research and its importance in your organisation. Knowing about the requirements of the the organisation's research strategy and plan and following them up

Your influence is high in:

• Integrating research plans into care areas, thus enabling units and teams to have research active capacity

Key message:

• "Evidence shows that care organisations with higher levels of health and care research activity have better care user outcomes"