The NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West Knowledge Mobilisation programme focuses on building capacity and capability and mobilising evidence across these priority areas:
- Health of children and young people
- Mental health
- Population health, particularly groups with multiple disadvantages
- Inequalities in health and access to services experienced by underserved groups
- The timely integration of research evidence into service planning and health and care practice
- The equitable deployment of health and care innovations.
Approaches
The main approaches the knowledge mobilisation team takes are :
- enabling service level staff to lead and champion evidence-based service changes through a system-based Impact Accelerator Unit
- enabling community leadership in research and knowledge mobilisation through the health research ambassadors working in ethnically diverse and underserved areas
- supporting uptake and spread of health and care innovations through the Health Innovation West of England’s ‘innovation and improvement academy’ model which shares knowledge, enhances skills, and supports networking and connections across the three integrated care systems.
KM Projects underday in ARC West
- Accelerating the deployment of proven technologies (ADOPT) programme
Accelerating the deployment of provent technologies (ADOPT)
In collaboration with Health Innovation West of England, ARC West are funding a KM Fellow to explores best practice activities that support NHS organisations to move innovations beyond pilots and adopt them as business as usual.
Alongside this, they are working accross multiple projects involving innovations ranging from robotic process automation to digital outpatient communication platforms and endoscopy training, drawing on learning across different types of digital and service innovations.
To support this ativity, the KM Fellows is:
- drawing on insights from the knowledge mobilisation literature around project delivery,
- supporting shared learning, and
- promoting the practical use of evidence in real-world settings.
- Virtual reality (VR) treatment for people with psychosis.
Virtual reality (VR) treatment for people with psychosis.
Designed by Professor Daniel Freeman of the University of Oxford and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and with people with lived experience of psychosis, gameChange is a pioneering Virtual reality (VR) treatment for people with psychosis which aims to help people feel more confident, safe, and in control in every day situations.
gameChange has been shown to be effective in reducing agoraphobic avoidance, helping people get back to doing the things that are important to them.
Further research is being funded by the National Institute for Health and Social Care Research (NIHR), in collaboration with the Office for Life Sciences (OLS) and NICE, to see how helpful gameChange is for people with the most severe worries about going outside which will help the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and NHS England decide whether they should fully recommend gameChange for widescale use in the NHS.
Alongside the research, the ARC West funded Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow is helping to understand how the research findings can be embedded into clinical practice within services for psychosis at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, with a view to contributing to recommendations to suppor the further roll our of his therapy more widely in the future.
More information
Further information can can found on the ARC West webpage.
