Wider Care and Community Settings
We're working with people across local authorities, schools, care homes, hospices and other areas to grow research happening in wider care and community settings outside the NHS. If you would like more information about research in wider care and community settings email our team at researcheoe@nihr.ac.uk.
Why is research in care settings is so important?
Watch our short film to find out why research in care settings, like care homes, is so important. Hear from care home managers, social care researchers and NIHR research nurses about why they are involved in research, and learn how you can also get involved.
What's happening now?
Care Homes
We have expanded our team, including introducing a new Agile workforce who are working hard to help care home teams join our ENRICH scheme. Our Agile team is led by our Lead Community and Care Manager, and includes research nurses who are working in our localities across the region.
Hospices
The aim of hospice care is to improve the lives of people who have an incurable illness. Hospices provide care for people from the point at which their illness is diagnosed as terminal to the end of their life, however long that may be.
We are expanding our work to support the delivery of research to, for example, improve how people are cared for in hospices and find ways to help them live as well as possible while they are residing in them, as well as helping staff develop new skills and care processes.
If you are a hospice manager and would like to find out how you can include research in your work, please email us at crneoe@nihr.ac.uk.
Public Health in Local Authorities
We're engaging staff in every Local Authority in the region to represent us within their organisations, and help us access the people and pathways to enable new research opportunities. This will also mean more people will be able to get involved than ever before.
Find out more about our NIHR Public Health representatives in Local Authorities in the East of England.
Social Care
Along with supporting NHS research staff, we provide support for staff working in social care organisations to help them deliver research to improve treatments and care for service users, as well as improve environments for those working in the field.
Find out about some of the initiatives we've developed to help social care staff get involved in research, including dedicated training and campaigns.
Universities, Schools and Colleges
Our Lead Community and Care Manager and Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement team are working to engage schools and other educators in research.
Part of this programme includes working with the University of East Anglia (UEA) Health and Social Care Partnership to develop a lesson plan based on our interactive video game, Rebo's Research Adventure.
Other wider care and community settings
Our team have plans in place for the coming year which will see us bring research opportunities to teams across many more settings. We look forward to reporting further on this significant programme of work soon.
If you would like to speak to our team to find out more please email researcheoe@nihr.ac.uk.
Training & Resources from our Supranetwork Partnership
CRN East of England is working in partnership with CRN East Midlands and CRN West Midlands as part of a supranetwork to increase the impact of our work. Find out about the training, information and resources available to help you deliver Research in Wider Care and Community Settings and services.
The aim of this resource is to equip delivery staff and researchers with the information they need to engage and recruit within social care. This includes practical information about how to engage well with social care providers and also how to support social care study teams. This workbook will be useful to support researchers with the following providers:
Home Care
Care Home
Supported or Assisted living
Intellectual Disabilities
This resource will provide you with a foundation to understand more about research in the wider care and community settings and what you need to be successful in your role and in this team.