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Long Term Conditions Theme leads Professor Mari-Carmen Portillo Theme lead Long Term Conditions Theme To promote better living with and management of long-term conditions we need care plans that make sense to people and respond to individual needs. We aim to listen to and learn from people's experiences, explore resources in the community and work in teams that represent different lay people, sectors and professionals. Research projects Social Prescribing Link Workers framework: supporting complex needs of adults living with physical and mental health long term conditions Read more Evaluating impact of personalised care at service at service and system levels: Learning from the Wessex Academy for Skills in Personalised Care (WASP) programme. Read more Understanding barriers and enablers of using the Living with Long Term Conditions scale as part of routine care for people from under-served groups living with type 2 diabetes Read more PARTNERS II: Testing implementation and evaluation of a digital tool for multisectoral support and management of people living with Parkinson’s disease and/or arthritis. Read more Avoiding care escalations through targeted care coordination for people with multiple long-term conditions – a knowledge mobilisation project Read more Deprescribing and Optimisation of Medicines IN Older people with Heart Failure and Frailty (DOMINO-HFF) Read more COMPLETED: Change in treatment burden among people with multimorbidity: Protocol of a follow up survey and development of efficient measurement tools for primary care Read more ADOPTED: Treatment burden in people below the age of 65 with multimorbidity in primary care: A mixed methods (SPELL) Read more ADOPTED: (SIFT) Sensors in Fatigue Tracking in Parkinson’s. Exploring the relationship between perception of Fatigue and the performance of physical activities in people with Parkinson's with fatigue using wearable sensors Read more Reframing responsibility through public empowerment: proposing the ‘FoodEnviroScan’ app to unmask unfair environmental cues influencing poor diets Read more Non-digital support for maintaining physical activity in people with long-term conditions – within Maintenance Of physical acTivity beHaviour (MOTH) programme Read more COMPLETED: Digital support for maintaining physical activity in people with long-term conditions Read more COMPLETED: Development of policy recommendations to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on physical activity and mental health in individuals with multimorbidity: a mixed method study. Read more ADOPTED PROJECT: Understanding risk stratification of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in primary care Read more ADOPTED PROJECT: Development of a decision aid for offloading device selection for people with diabetic foot ulceration Read more ADOPTED PROJECT: Breast Cancer Choices: Evaluation and implementation of a digital patient-centred decision aid to support genetic testing in mainstream care. Read more ADOPTED PROJECT: Multidisciplinary Ecosystem to study Lifecourse Determinants and Prevention of Early-onset Burdensome Multimorbidity (MELD-B) Read more ADOPTED PROJECT: MELD Read more POST DOCTORAL PROJECT: Understanding, addressing, and meeting the complex needs of people living with long term physical and mental health conditions: a qualitative study Read more COMPLETED: Testing the living with chronic illness scale Read more COMPLETED: Medicines optimisation Read more Interventions to support physical activity for adults (MOTH) Read more MODIFY: The development and iMplementation Of a multidisciplinary medication review and Deprescribing Intervention among Frail older people in primarY care Read more PARTNERS Project: Development and implementation of a digital tool for multisectoralsupport and management of long-term condition Read more ADOPTED PROJECT: EnablExercise in Crohns: A qualitativE study to uNderstAnd the Barriers and faciLitators to physical activity and Exercise IN children and adolescents with CROHN’S disease Read more ADOPTED PROJECT: ExACT-CF: Exercise as an Airway Clearance Technique in people with Cystic Fibrosis – A randomised pilot trial Read more ADOPTED PROJECT: Happier Feet Read more COMPLETE: OPTIM Park - Optimization of community resources and systems of support to enhance the process of living with Parkinson’s Disease: a multisectoral intervention Read more Improving support for self-management (WASP) Read more Mental health hub projects Understanding, addressing, and meeting the complex needs of people living with long term physical and mental health conditions: a qualitative study Read more Role of patient-assessed functioning as a predictor of health service use in patients with long term mental health conditions Read more Read our publications here Read more Publications Collaborative project: Improving review appointments for people with long-term conditions

COMPLETED: Testing the effects of food product placement on customers’ visual attention and intended product purchases: a randomised trial in a virtual supermarket setting (Phase II) Principal Investigators: Janis Baird and Christina Vogel, Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology and Principal Research Fellow in Public Health Nutrition respectively, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton Team: Dr Sarah Crozier, Senior Statistician, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton Dr Hayward Godwin, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Southampton Professor Marcus Munafo and Dr Olivia Maynard, Bristol University Ravita Taheem, Southampton City Council, Sure Start Children’s Centres Started: 1st March 2022 Ends: 30th September 2024 Background Poor diet is linked to an increased risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Most adults in England consume too much salt, saturated fat and free sugar, and do not eat the recommended five daily portions of fruit and vegetables. People with lower education and income levels are more likely to have poor diet and to experience health problems as a result. Women of childbearing age are primarily responsible for domestic food tasks such as shopping and cooking, and their diets are closely linked to those of their children. Most families buy their food from supermarkets and their food choices can be influenced by placement of items in-store and by promotions. Our research We want to find out how the placement and packaging of healthy and unhealthy foods influence the foods that women choose to buy. We will do this by creating a ‘virtual’ supermarket layout that participants will interact with on a computer screen. We will recruit women attending Sure Start Children’s Centres in Hampshire and those whose children attend early years settings. Hampshire is a county within the Wessex region with some relatively deprived areas. We will choose centres and early years settings located in areas of higher deprivation. Local data suggests that 70% of families with young children are engaged with the centres. Women using the virtual supermarket will be shown images of healthy and unhealthy foods and non-food items that are placed in noticeable locations in the supermarket like checkouts. We will measure the specific aspects of the images women look at using experimental techniques such as eye tracking, which records their gaze point and gaze duration. The eye tracker is positioned close to the computer screen allowing it to record where women look. We will then ask women to tell us the products that they saw for sale, the name of the products they considered purchasing, and aspects of the supermarket that took their interest, and why. Our findings will tell us how people respond to the placement and packaging of different types of food products and whether these reponses differ if families are poorer or more wealthy. These findings help us to design ways to layout supermarkets to help all families eat more healthy foods. Our research will begin in March 2022 and end in late 2022. We will share the findings from our study with local families attending Sure Start Children’s Centres and early years settings. We will inform local and national government employees about our findings which could help to refine current government policies to address childhood obesity. The Study • 68 mothers took part in an eye-tracking study at the University of Southampton. •The women viewed scenes from a virtual supermarket which showed healthy, unhealthy and non-food products. •Scenes focused on the areas in a store where most shoppers usually pass through including the store entrance, end-of-aisles and checkouts. •Eye tracking software captured their eye movements to measure their attention. Participants were also asked to click on items on the screen that they wanted to purchase. •Twelve women also took part in interviews. mothers took part in an eye-tracking study at the University of Southampton. What did we learn? •We compared women’s attention to healthy, unhealthy and non-food items by showing them images of products side by side. Women showed higher levels of attention to healthy products over unhealthy and non-food items. Healthy products were viewed for 0.10 more seconds than unhealthy products and 0.15 more seconds than non-food items. The eye-tracking study also showed that the women had higher intention to purchase healthy foods over unhealthy and non-food items. Interviews with the women showed they used strategies like shopping lists and avoiding aisle ends to avoid unhealthy purchases. They wanted more healthy snacks or products they might have forgotten (such as paracetamol or batteries) at checkouts. What difference can this new Knowledge make? Supermarkets usually place unhealthy foods in noticeable places to make profits. Replacing these unhealthy foods with healthy or non-food items will just as likely, if not more successfully, lead to purchases. This can help families lead healthier lives. Why is this important for patients, health and care providers and policy makers? Placing unhealthy foods in noticeable locations can lead to impulse purchases of foods that can lead to obesity. Our study shows that women do not intend to buy these foods and would prefer healthier alternatives. Since 2022, UK policy has banned the placement of some unhealthy foods at noticeable locations in supermarkets. This research provides evidence that customers are likely to support this policy as they would like to buy healthy and non-food items from these locations. What Next? We are creating an infographic to share our findings with families via Sure Start Children’s Centres, Facebook and local schools. These results support our ongoing evaluation of the Food (Promotion and Placement) Regulations. Data will be shared in ongoing conversations with local authorities and via an academic publication. We have received funding to expand our study from mothers to young people. Adolescence is a time when young people may start to make independent food purchases. We aim to further understand what environmental factors influence young people’s purchases on their journey to and from school.

Healthy Communities Theme leads Professor Nisreen Alwan Theme lead Professor Dianna Smith Deputy theme lead Healthy Communities Theme The health of people across our communities faces a number of challenges from the start of someone’s life until the end – our research teams are addressing inequalities, diet, domestic violence and a wide range of issues that touch on everyone’s lives in particular those in more vulnerable and underserved populations. Next theme meeting: see events page or or contact: H.Down@soton.ac.uk for details Research projects ADOPTED: IneQUIty in end of life care for children: Investigating experiences and families’ Needs after sudden and unexpecTEd deaTh in children and young people – the QUINTET study Read more Determining the effectiveness and outcomes of innovative interventions for people who have used stalking behaviours: An extension of the exploration of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Multi-Agency Stalking Partnership (MASP) Read more A qualitative case study to understand Young people’s food purchasing patterns in CONvenience stores in the school neighbourhood environment (Y-CON) Read more ENRICHER-C: Involvement in the criminal justice system & the impact on women's health in Dorset & Hampshire – Community comparison Read more Developing a core cohort of community researchers in Wessex: towards a sustainable Wessex Community of Practice for public health research co-production Read more COMPLETED: WADE. Women and Desistence Engagement : An evaluation of a community-based, conditional caution pilot programme for women in the criminal justice system Read more Motivating and sustaining engagement of young people in improving their health and that of their communities Read more COMPLETED SOCIAL CARE: Building Bridges: Elevating Research Culture in Social Care through Collaboration, Qualitative Insight and Relationship-Driven Impact Read more ADOPTED: Investigating the impact of food vouchers on diet composition and the prevention of childhood obesity Read more ADOPTED: Community pharmacy alcohol-related liver disease risk identification and linkage to care through development of a complex intervention (CIP-LINC) Read more ADOPTED: Evaluation & Exploration of Multi-Agency Stalking Partnership Interventions Read more Qualitative Data Preservation and Sharing (Q-DaPS) Read more SOCIAL CARE: Evaluation of Southampton City Council’s Male Engagement Worker (MEW) Project Read more ADOPTED: Exploratory research to examine the health impact of scams and fraud and the current knowledge and systems in the police and partner agencies for targeting and delivering victim support services Read more COMPLETED: Co-POWeR - Consortium on Practices of Wellbeing and Resilience in BAME Families and Communities Read more COMPLETED: Testing the effects of food product placement on customers’ visual attention and intended product purchases: a randomised trial in a virtual supermarket setting (Phase II) Read more COMPLETED: Symptoms, Trajectory, Inequalities and Management: Understanding Long-COVID to Address and Transform Existing Integrated Care Pathways (STIMULATE) Read more ADOPTED: Mapping pathways of response for adult and child victim-survivors of domestic abuse in Southampton City Read more ENRICHER – involvEment iN the cRiminal justice system & the ImpaCt on women’s Health dorsEt & hampshiRe Read more CHAMPION: Children whose mothers are involved in the criminal justice system in Dorset & Hampshire: developing health and social care outcome indicators Read more COMPLETED: How to Support children with cancer, or another serious condition, and their parents during the COVID-19 outbreak Read more COMPLETED: Developing a web resource to support families bereaved during COVID-19 Read more SOCIAL CARE: Local Authority Adult Social Care Recruitment and Retention research project Read more Mental health Burden of Increased Living costs: Local Support (My BILLS) Read more ADOPTED: Young people’s barriers to mental health services Read more POST DOCTORAL PROJECT: Early detection of chronic liver disease in community settings Read more ADOPTED PROJECT: Comparing pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): systematic review and network meta-analysis Read more COMPLETED ADOPTED PROJECT: ADAPT: The cross-sector implementation of NICE-recommended CBT-based interventions for young people in care: Framework Read more ADOPTED PROJECT: DIGNIFIE Gender-seNsitive evaluatIon oF a prIson alternativE Read more ADOPTED PROJECT: High Harm Domestic Violence Perpetrator Pilot Evaluation Read more ADOPTED PROJECT: The Gateway Study a randomised controlled trial, economic and qualitative evaluation to examine the effectiveness of an out-of-court community-based Gateway intervention programme aimed at improving health and well-being for young adult offenders; victim satisfaction and reducing recidivism Read more COMPLETED: Social network facilitated engagement in people who are Homeless to address InEqualities in alcohol related Liver Disease - The SHIELD feasibility study Read more A national evaluation of Project Cautioning And Relationship Abuse (‘CARA’) awareness raising workshops for first time offenders of domestic violence and abuse Read more Wessex DIET: Determining the Impact of covid-19 on food sEcurity in young families and Testing interventions Read more Domestic Abuse and Life-Limiting Illness: identifying and supporting adults at risk (DALLI Study) Read more Prevention schemes for female vicitms and offenders in Hampshire and Dorset Read more COMPLETED: GOODNIGHT Covid-19 to care-home-based vulnerable individuals Read more The feasibility of community pharmacies testing for Hepatitis C in people who inject image and performance enhancing drugs Read more COMPLETED: Testing the effects of food product placement on customers’ visual attention and intended product purchases: a randomised trial in a virtual supermarket setting (Phase I) Read more COMPLETED: The Wessex FRIEND Toolbox (Family Risk IdEntificatioN and Decision) Read more Mental health hub projects Adolescent Resilience to OVercome Adversity: EmpoweRment and intervention development – the ROVER study Read more Pharmacological And Non-Pharmacological treatment of ADHD in Pre-schoolers: a systematic review and network meta-analysis: the PANPAP study Read more Read our publications here Read more Publications

COVID-19 projects We have been responding to the call from the National Institute for Health Research and the Department of Health and Social Care to rapidly respond to the demand for evidence and support for the NHS and care settings during the Covid-19 pandemic. The ARC Wessex Central team has been called in to support the NHS Nightingale Hospital and we are working with other ARCs and specialists. Professor Peter Griffiths is leading a team on Workforce and Staffing. This page lists the ARC Wessex Covid-19 research projects underway, and is updated when new projects come online. #staysafe Our research projects COMPLETED: Symptoms, Trajectory, Inequalities and Management: Understanding Long-COVID to Address and Transform Existing Integrated Care Pathways (STIMULATE) Read more ADOPTED PROJECT: Supported remote rehabilitation post Covid-19 Read more COMPLETED: Development of policy recommendations to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on physical activity and mental health in individuals with multimorbidity: a mixed method study. Read more COMPLETED: Predicting Patient Deterioration Risks in COMMunities Read more COMPLETED: How to Support children with cancer, or another serious condition, and their parents during the COVID-19 outbreak Read more COMPLETED: Developing a web resource to support families bereaved during COVID-19 Read more COMPLETED: GOODNIGHT Covid-19 to care-home-based vulnerable individuals Read more COMPLETED: COVID-19 Emergency Department Project Read more

Ageing & Dementia Theme leads Stephen Lim Theme lead Dr Kinda Ibrahim Deputy theme lead Ageing and Dementia theme webinar Next theme meeting: see events page Learn more about the Healthy Ageing, Dementia and Frailty National Priority Programme Research projects COMPLETED ADOPTED PROJECT: Neuro LTC: Assessing Baseline Factors, Critical Events and Fatigue in Long Term Neurological Conditions Read more EnTech (Enabling Technology): Investigating the enabling and inhibiting factors to the use of internet-based support tools for caregivers of people with dementia, and how to promote engagement. Read more The feasibility and acceptability of a collaborative deprescribing intervention to reduce anticholinergic burden among hospitalised older patients. Digital Anticholinergic Reduction Tool (DART) Read more Understanding the Networks, Effects and Teams involved in Community Alternatives to ACute Hospitalisation for Older People in Hampshire and Isle of Wight Region – CAtCH-NET Read more ADOPTED: Mobility assessments in hospitalised older adults: study protocol for an e-survey of UK healthcare professionals Read more ADOPTED: An observational longitudinal cohort study to investigate Cortical Disarray Measurement in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s disease (CONGA) Read more ADOPTED: (SIFT) Sensors in Fatigue Tracking in Parkinson’s. Exploring the relationship between perception of Fatigue and the performance of physical activities in people with Parkinson's with fatigue using wearable sensors Read more COMPLETED: Development, evaluation and provision of an intervention for primary and community NHS staff to help carers and homecare workers supporting people living at home with dementia with their continence. Read more ADOPTED: FLOWS Planning for Frailty: Optimal Health and Social Care Workforce Organisation Using Demand-led Simulation Modelling Read more PIVOT: Promoting Increased physical actiVity in hospitalised Older adults with Trained volunteers Read more ADOPTED: SPLENDID Social Prescribing for people to Live ENjoyably with Dementia/memory problems In Daily life Read more ADOPTED: Community Alternatives to aCute Hospitalisation for Older People who have Fallen (CAtCH-Falls) Read more COMPLETED: Wessex Frail2Fit – A feasibility and acceptability study of a virtual multi-modal intervention delivered by volunteers to improve functional outcomes of older adults with COVID-19 discharged from hospital Read more COMPLETED: Developing training for person-centred care: adapting the Chat & Plan for use in domiciliary care Read more COMPLETED ADOPTED PROJECT: Geospatial mapping of emergency calls from older adults to ambulance services in the South Central region, with a focus on people living with dementia: a feasibility study. Read more Understanding psychosocial determinants of alcohol use disorder (AUD) in older adults: exploring the role of social networks and loneliness in living with AUD (OLA study 2). Read more ADOPTED: Optimising Outpatients: Effective service transformation through face-to-face, remote and digital care delivery. Read more COMPLETED: Development of a structured deprescribing intervention for people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment in primary care (STOP-DEM) Read more COMPLETE: Development, evaluation and provision of an intervention for primary and community NHS staff to help carers and homecare workers supporting people living at home with dementia with their continence. Read more ADOPTED: Incidental Interaction: Novel Technology to Support Elders-as-Athletes through Augmenting Everyday Interactions Read more Wessex NHS Insights Prioritisation Programme Project (NIPP) Read more COMPLETED ADOPTED: Investigating Quality of Care for People with Dementia Undergoing Cancer Treatment in Ambulatory Care (ImPaCT) Read more COMPLETED: Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care (CLECC) in mental health settings: an implementation study Read more COMPLETED: Promoting person-centred care using the CHAT&PLAN conversation guide Read more COMPLETE: INVOLVing pEople with cognitive impaiRment in decisions about their hospital nursing care (INVOLVER): a pilot study Read more COMPLETED: Neuro Digital: From Attitudes to Strategies Read more COMPLETED: Neuro Online (Formerly From Clinic to E-Clinic): Evaluating the Implementation of the My Medical Record Platform in Young-Onset Dementia and Huntington’s Disease. Read more COMPLETED: IDA: Implementing a Digital physical Activity intervention for older adults Read more COMPLETED: The ImPACt study - Improving physical activity of older people in the community Read more CLECC Toolkit and background: Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care (CLECC) Read more COMPLETED: StOP UTI project: Strategies in older people's care settings to prevent infection Read more Understanding the psychosocial needs and trajectories of older adults (>64 years) with alcohol use disorder (AUD) from hospital back into community Read more The PD Life Study: Exploring the treatment burden and capacity of people with Parkinson’s and their caregivers Read more DIALOR: DIgitAL cOaching for fRailty (DIALOR) Read more COMPLETED: Material Citizenship Framework Project Read more Mental health hub projects Understanding the psychosocial needs and trajectories of older adults (>64 years) with alcohol use disorder (AUD) from hospital back into community Read more Publications Read our publications here. 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Mental Health Hub Aim: To build applied health research capability and capacity to enable research-led mental health services across the lifespan in pressing areas of mental health linked to substantial health inequalities in our region. Objectives: Strengthening Wessex’s capacity and capability to conduct high quality mental health research in populations with high mental health burden Working collaboratively with a range of organisations and the public to address current mismatch between mental health research need and evidence-based health, care, and public service response Enhancing capacity and capability of mental health services to incorporate findings of research into care pathways, so improving the effectiveness, efficiency, safety and quality of mental health care and commissioning of mental health services. Our research projects Social Prescribing Link Workers framework: supporting complex needs of adults living with physical and mental health long term conditions Read more Identifying the knowledge gaps of paramedics managing patients with mental health issues Read more ADOPTED: Gambling in the UK: An analysis of data from individuals seeking treatment at the NHS Southern Gambling Service Read more Understanding psychosocial determinants of alcohol use disorder (AUD) in older adults: exploring the role of social networks and loneliness in living with AUD (OLA study 2). Read more Development of a core outcome set for nurse wellbeing: a Delphi study Read more Work lives and Wellbeing of Mental Health Nursing Workforce Read more Role of patient-assessed functioning as a predictor of health service use in patients with long term mental health conditions Read more Understanding, addressing, and meeting the complex needs of people living with long term physical and mental health conditions: a qualitative study Read more Pharmacological And Non-Pharmacological treatment of ADHD in Pre-schoolers: a systematic review and network meta-analysis: the PANPAP study Read more Adolescent Resilience to OVercome Adversity: EmpoweRment and intervention development – the ROVER study Read more Understanding the psychosocial needs and trajectories of older adults (>64 years) with alcohol use disorder (AUD) from hospital back into community Read more Mental health projects Mental Health Hub lead Professor Sam Chamberlain Mental Health Hub lead Ageing and Dementia - promotion of healthy ageing by implementing and evaluating strategies to address alcohol use disorder, loneliness, and isolation. Workstream co-leads: Professor Julia Sinclair and Professor Jackie Bridges Healthy Communities - developing, implementing and evaluating strategies to identify young people at risk of mental health conditions (including addictions like alcohol & gambling), promote early intervention and successful care transitions and bolster resilience. Workstream co-leads: Professor Samuele Cortese and Professor Anne-Sophie Darlington Long-Term Conditions - enhancing evidence-based support for those with long term mental health disorders, like treatment-resistant anxiety and depression, and approaches to mobilising community systems of support and fostering resilience, including social prescribing. Workstream co-leads: Professor MC Portillo and Professor David Baldwin Workforce and Health Systems - develop and test evidence-based interventions matched to staff need and the organisational and professional context, to promote mental health, wellbeing and resilience in workforce providing care and treatment to people with mental health problems. Workstream co-leads: Professor Jane Ball and Dr Gemma Simons Our Post-Doctoral Fellows Rebecca Band Research Fellow Profile TBC Research Fellow Profile Skaiste Linceviciute Research Fellow Profile Naomi Klepacz Research Fellow Profile Mental Health Play Video All Videos

Healthy Ageing, Dementia and Frailty National Priority Research Programme The research is focused on the health challenges facing our growing older population. The projects are as much about staying well and supporting people as finding better ways to care for and treat people with the many multi-morbidities that can develop in later life. Our research projects WHELD: Training care home staff to improve well-being and mental health of dementia residents led by NIHR ARC Peninsula and working with NIHR ARC South London, NIHR ARC East Midlands, NIHR ARC East of England, NIHR ARC North East North Cumbria, NIHR ARC North West Coast and NIHR ARC Yorkshire and Humber Read more FinCH Implementation study: Falls prevention in care homes led by NIHR ARC East Midlands working with NIHR ARC North East North Cumbria, NIHR ARC West Midlands and NIHR ARC South London. Read more FLEXI: Falls management exercise programme led by NIHR ARC East Midlands working with NIHR ARC Greater Manchester and NIHR ARC South West Peninsula Read more Who is participating? NIHR ARC Greater Manchester NIHR ARC Yorkshire and Humber NIHR ARC South West Peninsula NIHR ARC East Midlands NIHR ARC West Midlands NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria NIHR ARC North West Coast NIHR ARC South London NIHR ARC East of England

Social care An effective health service is reliant on an effective social care system, and it is therefore vital that we develop a robust research base for social care, to ensure that local authorities (LAs) and third sector organisations provide the most effective services within a wider integrated system of health and social care. Our research projects COMPLETED SOCIAL CARE: Building Bridges: Elevating Research Culture in Social Care through Collaboration, Qualitative Insight and Relationship-Driven Impact Read more ADOPTED: FLOWS Planning for Frailty: Optimal Health and Social Care Workforce Organisation Using Demand-led Simulation Modelling Read more SOCIAL CARE: Evaluation of Southampton City Council’s Male Engagement Worker (MEW) Project Read more COMPLETED SOCIAL CARE: Building capacity in social care through co-produced research and a research learning partnership between University of Portsmouth and Portsmouth City Council Read more SOCIAL CARE: Local Authority Adult Social Care Recruitment and Retention research project Read more Professor Lee-Ann Fenge Social Care lead Growing social care research capacity ARC Wessex and CRN Wessex have pulled together to expand research into social care. Four researchers have been funded to work with local councils inDorset, Portsmouth, Southampton and Hampshire. Senior Research Fellow Doctor Michelle Myall has just been named researcher-in-residence at Southampton City Council. Amy Drahota will work with Portsmouth City Council, Andy Pulman with Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch Council and Dorset Council and David Raper with Hampshire County Council. The researchers come from the Universities in Southampton, Bournemouth, Winchester and Portsmouth. Research projects are at an early stage but will include issues like domestic abuse and social care workforce capacity. Funding is also available to support development of Research Champions within councils to work with the four research leads. The social care research champions will be existing employees from the councils concerned. The specific focus of the role will differ by individual council and its needs. This will be an opportunity for learning for all involved, to understand more about what support is needed to enable growth in social care research. Our Post-Doctoral Fellows Dr Andy Pulman Bournemouth University Dr Amy Drahota University of Portsmouth Dr Michelle Myall University of Southampton Dr Rachel Harrison University of Winchester As part of the ongoing Social Care projects established throughout Wessex, a lunch-time seminar series will be taking place each month. Please take a look at our events page for details. The next webinars are: Feb 15, 2024 12:00 Evidence for the role of social care in reducing ambulance conveyance for older people with and without dementia in the South Central region by Carole Fogg and Patryk Jadzinski Mar 21, 2024 12:00 Participatory action research by Professor Lee-Ann Fenge Apr 18, 2024 12:00 My journey from dementia care assistant to PhD and beyond by Leah Fullegar If you missed an online seminar see below for the recordings Social Care Lunchtime Seminars Social Care Lunchtime Seminars Play Video Share Whole Channel This Video Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tumblr Copy Link Link Copied Search video... Now Playing Social Care lunchtime seminar #13_Internships 39:33 Play Video Now Playing Social Care lunchtime Seminar 19 9 25 - Rachel Harrison 53:44 Play Video Now Playing Social Care lunchtime seminar #12 - Roots and Branch - Independent Advocacy 53:31 Play Video Now Playing Social Care lunchtime seminar #11 - 23 May 2024 40:53 Play Video Seminar presentation Presenters Seminar Zoom links Seminar 2 - Andy Pullman Download PowerPoints Set one - Practitioner data Set two - HEI data summar Set three - Methodology Speakers Professor Lee-ann Fenge - Professor of Social Care in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University and CRN and ARC Wessex lead on Social Care Dr Andy Pullman - ARC Wessex Post Doctoral Fellow - Bournemouth University Here's how to join Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84574755038?pwd=dHZ4RHNSMmpIQlNLNW41cnptUzZ3Zz09 Meeting ID: 845 7475 5038 Passcode: 058408

Workforce & Health Systems Theme lead Professor Michael Boniface Theme lead Deputy theme leads Dr Dan Burns Health Systems Dr Chiara Dall'ora Workforce Workforce & Health Systems Theme We know that the health workforce are an asset and in short supply. As part of our ARC research we are planning a series of studies. We will look at the best ways for staff to work - for example where and when. We also want to improve conditions - in part by ensuring they have time to do the jobs we are asking them to do. Cultivating a flow of pioneering ideas that offer the potential to transform people's lives and the economy using information technology is a motivating force that drives us. Our capacity to rapidly turn these ideas into benefits for partners through collaborative, applied research and innovation makes Southampton a truly exciting place to be. Research projects PROCED-DST: PROactive, Collaborative and Efficient complex Discharge – Decision Support Tool Read more FORTH – FORecasting Turbulence in Hospitals Read more Predicting nurse staffing requirements -validation and scoping extension study (PREDICT-NURSE validation and extension) Read more Identifying the knowledge gaps of paramedics managing patients with mental health issues Read more Wessex SNSDE Study (SETT Centre) Read more ADOPTED (PhD): PREPARE-to-ACT study: Preparing for and Responding to Emergencies – A multi-phased qualitative investigation of Patients’ And members of their RElational networks’ decisions to use urgent and emergency care during Anti-Cancer Treatment Read more PUNDIT – Predicting hospital Usage Numbers via a DIgital Twin Read more ADOPTED: A Study to Evaluate the Introduction of new Staffing Models in Intensive Care: a Realist evaluation (SEISMIC-R) Read more COMPLETE: PREDICT-NURSE – feasibility: Predicting Patient Acuity/Dependency-Based Workload from Routinely Collected Data to Assist with Nursing Staff Planning – feasibility study Read more ADOPTED: Nurture-U (Southampton): A longitudinal survey for student metal health and wellbeing Read more ADOPTED: FLOWS Planning for Frailty: Optimal Health and Social Care Workforce Organisation Using Demand-led Simulation Modelling Read more ADOPTED: SORT-IT (Salisbury Operational Research Track – Improving Together) Read more Workforce Evaluation Toolkit project (WET) Read more ADOPTED: Social Prescribers In Deprescribing Role (SPiDeR) Read more ADOPTED: Improving patient safety, workforce wellbeing and NHS efficiency through improved shift patterns for nursing staff: study protocol Read more PARIEDA - Prediction of Acute Respiratory Infection outcomes prior to Emergency Department Attendance Read more COMPLETED ADOPTED PROJECT: Geospatial mapping of emergency calls from older adults to ambulance services in the South Central region, with a focus on people living with dementia: a feasibility study. Read more COMPLETED: Predicting Patient Deterioration Risks in COMMunities Read more ADOPTED PROJECT: Developing and testing a Patient Report Experience Measure for patients accessing Acute OnCology services: The PREMAC study Read more ADOPTED: Consequences, costs and cost-effectiveness of different workforce configurations in English acute hospitals: a longitudinal retrospective study using routinely collected data Read more COMPLETED POST DOCTORAL PROJECT: The career aspirations of nurses working in the research delivery workforce: a cross-sectional survey Read more ADOPTED PROJECT: Magnet4Europe: Improving mental health and wellbeing in the health care workplace Read more PROCED: PROactive, Collaborative and Efficient complex Discharge Read more Mental Health, Workforce and Well-being Research Framework - ARC Collaboration Read more COMPLETED: Safer Nursing Care Tool and nurse staffing requirements Read more COMPLETED: Shift Pattern Feasibility Read more COMPLETED: Improving community health care planning Read more CLECC Toolkit and background: Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care (CLECC) Read more COMPLETED: COVID-19 Emergency Department Project Read more Mental health hub projects Work lives and Wellbeing of Mental Health Nursing Workforce Read more Development of a core outcome set for mental health nurse wellbeing: a Delphi study Read more Read our publications here Read more Publications Access our evidence brief here Read more Evidence briefs Reports, toolkits and support Find the information and tools to improve your work here Read more

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Public and Community Involvement and Engagement At ARC Wessex we want to engage and involve the public throughout the research process to improve the reach, quality and impact of our research findings. John has a neurological condition. He's supported our research: "I get huge benefits out of the socialisation, and just knowing I can get here easily and take part and participate. Being part of the solutions. It’s just for my mental health, hugely, hugely important" Public and Community Involvement and Engagement (or PCIE in short) Our vision from our strategy is: Where meaningful public and community involvement and engagement is a central part of NIHR ARC Wessex’ health and social care research activities. It is important to us that the people who are the focus of our research in health and social care have a say in how that research is identified, designed and carried out. We aim to make sure the research is relevant and meets the needs they have helped identify, in partnership with those who deliver the health and social services in our region. Your views and opinions are important. They offer a point of view that academics or service providers may not have. When everyone’s ideas and views are brought together, they can result in high quality, relevant and useable research evidence, which can improve the health, care and wellbeing of others across our Wessex region.. What is Public Involvement in research? Public involvement in research is referred to as research being carried out 'with' or 'by' members of the public rather than 'to', 'about' or 'for' them. It involves collaborative working with our public partners, working together to ensure that the voices of local people are at the heart of our Health and Care research. It is different to research participants taking part in a study. What is Engagement? By this, we mean reaching out to individuals or communities to provide the opportunity for a two-way process of sharing information, discussing and listening to ideas to help shape research. Engagement is about building working relationships. Who can be involved in our research locally? Anyone who lives across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Dorset and South Wiltshire (Wessex) , regardless of your level of experience or education. We work with a diverse community of people from different backgrounds and of all ages. Anyone can be involved with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Be Part of Research. For more information and to register please click here . Getting involved Support for researchers Resources PCIE guide