We’re back from a delicious lunch and jumping into a discussion of #Impact. How can we bridge the gap between research, policy, people and practice?
Duleep Allirajah, CEO of the Richmond Group is getting us started with a talk on “The Task Force for Multiple Long-Term Conditions: Priority setting and progress to date”
Hajira Dambha-Miller is presenting her team’s work on “Understanding the impact of multimorbidity and social care needs in England and Wales from the Cluster - AIM study”.
She opens her talk sharing the story of a patient of hers (she’s a GP as well as a research scientist) whose social care challenges outweigh and exacerbate her physical and mental health challenges. We must understand the social context of the people living with #MLTC.
Next up is Jane McDermott from the NIHR Policy Research Programme Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing at the University of Manchester.
Her talk is titled “Raising the Bar in Policy Research - Lessons learnt from the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health Ageing”
She’s sharing the broad network of stakeholders who feed into policy research, and #mobilising #knowledge as a pathway for #scaling #impact.
We have a double presentation at the end of this session: Simon Fraser PI MELD-B & Lynn Laidlaw PPI representative.
Their presentation is titled: Lost in translation? Looking for the lived experience of multiple long-term conditions in data
They share how the team moved away from talking about #burden to talking about the #workload of living with #MLTC. Their #PPIE contributors were allowed to make a difference to the project. And as Lynn says “language matters”.
KirstieJane