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USER GROUP UPDATE
Arthritis Research
UK Reception
Research User Group member Christine Walker had the
pleasure of attending Arthritis Research UK’s Annual
Summer Parliamentary reception this July, which was
held at the House of Commons, London.
Entitled Prevent, Transform,
Cure, the aim of the event was to
re-engage with existing Arthritis
champions and to encourage
new MPs to sign up to be
champions.
The event was sponsored by
Fiona Bruce MP and both she
and broadcaster Julian Worricker
addressed the event along with
the CEO of ARUK, Liam O’Toole.
The charity’s main manifesto
recommendations were addressed:
1. Make musculoskeletal conditions
a public health priority.
2. Ensure people have timely
access to health care services
that enable them to improve their
musculoskeletal health.
3. Ensure people with
musculoskeletal conditions have
fair and timely access to services
that support them to be in work,
including financial support.
4. Protect the UK’s position as a
global leader in science and
sustain the benefits of the life
science sector to the economy.
Liam O’Toole took the opportunity
to announce that collaboration with
Arthritis Care was to take place this
autumn, so that the charities can
maximise raising much needed
awareness of arthritic conditions.
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Christine commented:
The event was very well
attended and I spoke to Trustees
from the charity, MPs, staff from
NHS bodies as well as people
affected by all forms of arthritis.”
EVENTS
Implementation
Science Masterclass
2017
Laura Campbell attended a two-day course at
Kings College London in June, which looked at
Implementation Science – a new science aimed
at improving clinical practice.
As a Patient and Public
Involvement and
Engagement Knowledge
Broker, Laura joined the
course to develop her
skills and understanding
of how we translate
information from research
into real life practice.
Implementation, which is
carried out by the Impact
Accelerator Unit at Keele,
is how we get the results
of our research studies
into GP practices and
physiotherapy clinics to
actually benefit patients
and to provide better
services and outcomes
for everyone. This is also
known as the transfer of
knowledge, or knowledge
mobilisation.
The course covered
academic theory and
frameworks around
implementation,
challenges and solutions
to the process of
transferring knowledge
and how to effectively
evaluate implementation
projects.
Some of you may be
familiar with STarT Back
and JIGSAW-E projects
at Keele – these are
implementation projects
and we have had strong
PPIE input in these
through our LINK group
(Lay Involvement in
Knowledge Mobilisation).