Applied Research Collaboration

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration West Midlands is a five-year initiative funded by the NIHR and by matched funds provided by local health and social services. The initiative builds on the previous successful CLAHRC West Midlands with a mission to create lasting and effective partnerships across health and social care organisations, universities (Birmingham, Keele and Warwick), and local authorities to improve the services we can deliver for patient benefit.

Patients and the Public are at the heart of our research. Each of our projects is designed to make a real impact on the lives of NHS patients and they are involved, participate, and engage with our research projects at all stages of the research cycle. We have a number of PPI Advisers that work with researchers in each of our themes: Long term conditions; Acute care interfaces; Integrated care in youth mental health; Maternity services; Organisational sciences; Research methodology and informatics; Public health; Social care .

Together, our Advisers form a PPI Supervisory Committee and we have Adviser-representation at ARC WM’s Programme Steering and Executive Committees.