GM CLAHRC launches new website
The NIHR Greater Manchester Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (GM CLAHRC) has re-launched its website. GM CLAHRC brings leading clinical experts together with world class researchers based at the University of Manchester whose “know-how” is linked with that of frontline healthcare providers and commissioners to develop and implement innovations in care for people with long term vascular conditions (stroke, diabetes, kidney disease, heart disease) that promote patient self-management, improve quality of care, and make more efficient use of scarce NHS resources. It has a five year programme (2008-2013) to improve healthcare and reduce inequalities in health for people with chronic vascular conditions by:
- Developing and evaluating improved ways for the NHS to support people in managing their vascular disease
- Implementing these and other evidence-based improvements in healthcare across Greater Manchester
- Building NHS capacity to plan and implement evidence-based changes to care pathways for people with vascular disease.
The new website has a focus on GM CLAHRC’s objective of innovating through research and putting the evidence from research into practice. It has been designed to focus and highlight the work GM CLAHRC does to improve the care of people with long term vascular conditions. [caption id="attachment_6564" align="aligncenter" width="300"]
A snapshot of GM CLAHRC's new homepage[/caption] Visitors to the site will find that it contains evidence-based resources and details of the impact of the work that GM CLAHRC has undertaken with its local NHS partners to benefit patients through improving services and the way in which care is delivered. Professor Bonnie Sibbald, GM CLAHRC Director, said: “We are delighted to share learning from GM CLAHRC through our new website. Our work brings together researchers and NHS staff to develop and improve NHS services that people in Greater Manchester and the rest of England will benefit from.” GM CLAHRC is developing a series of resources that staff can use if they want to adopt the approaches that it has devised to improve services in their areas, with details of the proven benefits it has brought to healthcare in Greater Manchester. These resources include:
- A guide to detecting and managing people with Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary Care - see the Chronic Kidney Disease resource pages for more information
- An evidence-based assessment tool – GM-SAT – that can be used to deliver the six-month post stroke review. GM-SAT has been highlighted nationally as being best practice and as one of the NIHR’s research highlights for 2010/11 - see the GM-SAT Life after Stroke resource pages for more information
- Three projects around Heart Failure are helping to improve the recognition and care of the disease in both hospitals and GP Practices and will be developed into a downloadable resource later this year. See the following resources Heart Failure Alert Card, Heart Failure Management GM-HFIT for more information.
- Evaluations from two projects supporting people who have Impaired Glucose Tolerance to reduce their risk of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
The sections will be updated as the CLAHRC produces new resources for people to use. Professor Sibbald added: “GM CLAHRC has some excellent examples and case studies, which illustrate how patients, carers and the public have helped not only to shape the services we have developed, but also how they’ve benefited from the research that we have put into practice.” Contact details for each of the projects are available on the relevant website pages. If you would like to know more about the work of GM CLAHRC please email us. You can also sign up to receive a copy of our regular external newsletter at the following link. Published 16 February 2012
Date Published: 14/02/2012