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Calls and Competitions: Policy Research Programme
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RESEARCH ON ELDER ABUSE, NEGLECT AND LACK OF DIGNITY IN THE INSTITUTIONAL CARE OF OLDER PEOPLE
In May 2008, the Department of Health and Comic Relief launched a major Research Initiative on Elder Abuse, Neglect and Lack of Dignity in the Institutional Care of Older People.
Following an initial commissioning process in 2008, seven research projects were funded. Two studies on topics that are central to the Research Initiative remain to be funded:
1. A prevalence study of elder abuse in residential and nursing care settings:This study is required to increase knowledge about the extent of neglect, abuse and lack of dignity in these institutional contexts. It will also examine the causes and risk factors that exist within such settings in order to inform the development of appropriate strategies for intervention and prevention.
2. A feasibility study to undertake a prevalence study of abuse, neglect and loss of dignity of older people in NHS institutional settings: An initial study is needed to develop and pilot a methodology for conducting a prevalence study in NHS hospital and intermediate care settings.
For further information please click on the following link to access the research brief. Once registered, please login to the NIHR CCF extranet, click on the ‘PRP’ link in the left hand menu and then the ‘PRP Elder Abuse, Neglect & Lack of Dignity’ link to access the application form and guidance notes.
Research teams are invited to submit proposals for one or both studies. The deadline for receipt of proposals is 5.00pm Friday 12 June 2009.
POLICY RESEARCH UNITS
The Department of Health’s Policy Research Programme wishes to commission Policy Research Units in a number of high priority areas. The purpose is to meet the longer-term policy research needs of the Department, as well as to secure the capacity for work to be undertaken at short notice and for rapid synthesis of evidence.
The Department therefore invites applications to deliver a 5-year programme of high quality research in the following priority areas, each of which will constitute a Policy Research Unit:
1. Commissioning and the healthcare system
2. Quality and outcomes of person-centred care
3. Policy innovation research
4. Economics of health and social care systems
5. Economic evaluation of health and care interventions
6. Modelling in health protection, social care and clinical practice
7. Cancer awareness, screening and early diagnosis
8. Behaviour and health
9. Children, young people and families
10. Maternal health and care
For more detailed information on these priority research areas please click on the following link to access the research brief. Once registered, please login to the NIHR CCF extranet, click on the ‘PRP’ link in the left hand menu and then the ‘Policy Research Units’ link to access the Stage 1 application form and guidance notes.
This is a two-stage tender process and applicants will need to submit a stage 1 application, which outlines their capacity to meet the essential features of a Policy Research Unit, by Monday 8th June 2009.
HIGH QUALITY CARE FOR ALL - AN EVALUATION PROGRAMME
High Quality Care For All (HQCFA), the final report of the NHS Next Stage Review (NSR), led by Lord Darzi KBE and 2,000 clinicians across the country and involving 60,000 patients, public and staff, was published on 30 June 2008. The purpose of the review was to build on progress made in delivering the NHS Plan and the Government’s reform agenda, to identify the way forward for a 21st Century NHS which is clinically-driven, patient-centred, responsive to local communities and delivering high quality of care for all. It responds to the challenges of delivering locally developed long-term visions for improving health and healthcare in each region. The Department of Health, through its Policy Research Programme (PRP), has already commissioned a Health Reform Evaluation Programme (HREP) to support the implementation and subsequent development of the main strands in the reform of the English NHS since 2002. The DH now wishes to commission a major new wave to that programme of research to evaluate the impact of High Quality Care for All.
This call will have two distinct tenders: one for an overarching evaluation of the impact of the NSR (HQCFA – Core Call), and and another for evaluations of specific NSR policies (HQCFA – Key Policies).
An Expression of Interest (EOI) for the HQCFA – Core Call is required by 5.00pm on Friday 8 May 2009. A date for submission of completed electronic full applications and supporting documentation will be set following evaluation of submitted EOIs.
The deadline for receipt of full applications falling under the HQCFA – Key Policies remit is 5.00pm on Monday 1 June 2009.
To see a copy of the research specification, please follow this link. Once registered, please login to the NIHR CCF extranet, click on the ‘PRP’ link in the left hand menu and then the ‘PRP HQCFA - Core Call’ link to submit an Expression of Interest.
EVALUATON OF A PILOT FOR ROUTINE COLLECTION OF PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOME MEASURES (PROMS) IN MANAGEMENT OF LONG TERM CONDITIONS
The Department of Health Policy Research Programme invites applications to undertake an evaluation of a pilot for routine collection of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) in management of long-term conditions.
In his report, High Quality Care for All. NHS Next Stage Review Final Report, Professor Lord Darzi, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health, identified the importance of measuring the effectiveness of care from the patient’s own perspective. Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) capture self-assessed health states and the Next Stage Review proposes to make these measures a key mechanism in the strategy for securing improvement in the quality of care in the NHS.
PROMs will be collected routinely for a number of elective surgical procedures from April 2009 as part of the NHS standard acute services contract. This development has built on evidence from previous DH commissioned research. We now propose to extend the programme to assess the potential for the use of routinely collected PROMs in the management of long-term conditions (LTCs) through a pilot scheme with partner PCTs.
We are inviting research proposals for an evaluation of the LTC PROMs pilot to inform decisions on possible wider roll-out of such a system. The evaluation will provide lessons regarding the acceptability of the pilot system; factors associated with response and equality issues; design of a system to deliver participant numbers needed for valid results at different aggregations of data; analytical strategies for robust interpretation of PROMs scores over time; effective communication of results to stakeholders; and cost estimates for scaling-up the pilot system.
This is a single-stage tender process and applicants will need to submit their final proposal by 5.00pm on Monday 11 May 2009.
To see a copy of the research specification, please follow this Link
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