Health and Social Care Practitioners

Where you can make a difference:

• Having an awareness of research and the studies relevant to your areas of work, knowing how to talk to service users and patients about research and refer them on to research staff if interested

• Linking with R&D staff, Research Nurses, and Clinical Research Practitioners on your patch is likely to be really helpful all round

• Include any research activity when considering personal development plans and appraisals

Your influence is high in:

• Having an awareness of research and its importance in people's care

• Knowing about research studies that might be going on within your department or team

• Knowing how to refer service users who may be interested in being a study participant to relevant research support staff

• Being ready, within your time constraints, to support studies being run in your area of work

• Knowing your options for initiating research in your area or work and being aware of who can help

Key message:

• "Research can help you identify effective and cost efficient care approaches, processes and systems"