Engaging Health and Social Care Professionals
This page provides more information on how CRN East of England works with local health and social care professionals to support the delivery of research.
Opening the door to research
A key objective for the NIHR is to encourage health and care professionals to get involved in research.
By supporting a research-positive culture in health and care organisations, patients can gain greater access to clinical research, improved care and a wider range of treatment options.
NIHR Learn
Within NIHR Learn, there are additional resources in the section called Research Engagement Collaborative.
If you are:
Passionate about research
Interested in embedding research into your organisation
Have a great idea to encourage a wider range of people to engage with research
Then CRN East of England may be able to help you!
CRN East of England Research Engagement Strategy
We have developed a research engagement strategy in collaboration with our partner organisations.
The vision is to have research embedded in the health and care sector, to create a research positive culture in which all health and care staff in the East of England feel empowered to support and participate in clinical and care research as part of their job.
Our objectives are:
All health and social care staff feel confident to talk about research to patients and service users.
All health and social care staff feel confident to find out about opportunities to deliver research.
Read the full Research Engagement Strategy.
If you would like to join the group or hear more about it, contact us at crne-researchengagement@nihr.ac.uk
Embedding Research in NHS Care and Wider Health Services Guide
The NIHR have created a free webpage that details what clinical research staff need to know about supporting the further integration of research and care in the NHS and beyond.
You'll find information here that should support you in interacting with non-research colleagues in your care settings. This might be facts and figures, messaging, reports, new strategic work or examples of approaches to research engagement.
Click here to the view the Embedding Research in NHS Care and Wider Health Services webpage
Best Patient Care, Clinical Research and You
This is an online guide to help busy non research staff become more aware of their impact on research in their Trust.
It raises general awareness which should help research delivery in particular, but it also helps the Trust fulfil requirements of research elements in the CQC Well Led Framework and the NHS Long Term Plan.
The guide is made up of a number of webpage guides which can be used on Trusts’ intranets.
Links to more information about research policy and practice
Saving and Improving Lives: The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery
In March 2022, the DHSC published Saving and Improving Lives: The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery, which recognises that research is the single most important way in which healthcare can improve - by identifying new means to prevent, diagnose and treat disease.
Click here to read to read the policy paper
CQC Strategy from 2021
Published in May 2022, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) from 2021 strategy sets out a 'new strategy for the changing world of health and social care.' One of themes of the strategy is accelerating improvement through research to drive improvements across individual services and systems of care.
Click here to view the CQC Strategy from 2021
Best Research for Best Health: The Next Chapter
In June 2022, the NIHR published the Best Research for Best Health: The Next Chapter, to outline the NIHR's operational priorities today and for the future.
Click here to view the Best Research for Best Health: The Next Chapter
Delivering research to make patients, the NHS and social care, better