Dr Sheila Kennedy, Health Services Researcher from the RATS
Group in ScHARR, has successfully recruited over 40 Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) research volunteers to a
national NIHR Health Services and Development Research funded project seeking
to improve the outcomes and experiences of acute care for frail older
people. Sheila was one of the six
co-applicants for funding and leads the PPI workstream. The other applicants
are at Universities in Newcastle, Leicester and Southampton and the Nuffield
Trust in London.
Nearly 20 PPI-ers recently commented and made suggestions on
numerous documents being prepared for the research ethics approval process and this
week, on May 13th, eight are participating in an advisory and
validation exercise at a research meeting in London..
At the meeting, co-applicant Martin Bardsley, Head of
Research and expert in NHS data analysis at the Nuffield Trust will explain the
data and methods being used to identify the number and needs of
frail older people in different areas of the UK, by examining patterns of service
use data. The Nuffield researchers want
to hear what older members of the public think of the measures they are using
at identifying frail older people and their patterns of service use over time within
an area, and whether they think there are other indicators that might be better.
A similar meeting at the University
of Sheffield is planned for June 5th to enable PPI-ers from the
Midlands and Northern England/Scotland to share their views.
The PPI research volunteers come
from diverse locations across the UK including Blackburn, Bristol, Edinburgh,
Enfield, Isle of Wight, King’s Lynn, Leicester, London, Newcastle, Norwich,
Scunthorpe, Sheffield, Stoke on Trent, Walsall and York.
Written by Dr Sheila Kennedy
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