Evidence
BMJ Best Practice for all NHS staff in England
BMJ Best Practice is freely accessible to all health professionals across England, funded by HEE. The tool provides the latest evidence-based health information.
Bringing Knowledge Management Together
This site contains information about the search and synthesis model currently under development to support the Knowledge into Action project.
Evaluation
Advancing Rapid Evaluation: Challenges & Opportunities
Evidence
Evidence is a key aspect within Research and the following resources provide guidance and reflection on it's importance.
Evidence Tool Kit is a great resource for guidance.
National Elf Service
The National Elf Service is owned and managed by Minervation Ltd; an Oxford University spin-out company founded by information scientists Douglas Badenoch and André Tomlin, who have been building evidence-based healthcare websites since the early 1990s. Douglas and André share a vision for making evidence-based research more accessible and usable for busy health and social care professionals.
The website includes multiple blogs and resources related to a range of topics. They often focus on evidence-based health care. To read more click here.
General Practice - My Signals
In My Signals, health and social care staff and service users tell the NIHR what research is important to them and why they feel others need to know about it. Join the conversation on Twitter and tell the NIHR which Signals have interested, excited or surprised you, using #MySignals.
How commissioners use research evidence
This highlight includes studies into the behaviour of individual managers and the way in which commissioning organisations make sense of and use research information when making decisions.
How to engage with stakeholders with your findings
This checklist may help to prompt ideas of people and groups you need to contact:
named people you know have influence over clinical practice or policy - just one of these might be your most important audience
named civil servants in national or local government
practitioner networks with wide reach - RCGP, networks for specific conditions and patient groups
CCGs and the Clinical Research Network - access via Viv Shaw
clinical guidelines and protocols - target decision-makers and respond to calls
blogs, letters and comments in journals and trade magazines (Pulse, HSJ, many others)
charities, NGOs and membership organisations
PPI networks
Academic primary care community - SAPC, your contacts
Medical students and Cambridge medical societies
GP education sector - HEE, Deanery
Research funders - make sure you share your communications with your specific funder ahead of publication
Private sector, industry - access via Cambridge Enterprise and possibly through PCU partners such as RAND Europe
Impact Communicating Research
The Health Foundation - Section 1: Planning for impact
This article will help you plan your communications activity and focus your communications on where they can make the most impact.
The article covers the following areas:
Using strategic communications planning to increase impact.
Identifying and prioritising audiences.
Choosing the right communications channels.
Step by step guide to communicating your research outside the academic community
A 'how to' guide for researchers
How to evidence and record policy impact
A 'how to' guide for researchers
Cambridge Institute of Public Health About the Public Health: Research into Policy Project
The Public Health: Research into Policy project seeks to highlight and expand engagement between public health researchers and policymakers.
16 Eye-popping statistics you need to know about visual content marketing
One marketing trend that's impossible to ignore is the growing power and value of visual content. Just look at four of the fastest-growing social networks: Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, and Tumblr.
Library Access
Midlands and East Regional Athens administrator support desk
Tel: 0115 952 9486
E-mail: athens@nottshc.nhs.uk
For those of you who have not used your Athens account recently you may find this link useful.
NIHR Alerts
NIHR publishes regular and timely summaries of the most important research. Click here to read more.
Nine ways research could save the NHS money
In this highlight, the NIHR have carefully selected nine of their NIHR Signals that show how research could help to save the NHS money.