1. NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in
Applied Health Research and Care West
Midlands (CLAHRC WM)
The Year that Was

2. Collaborations for Leadership in
Applied Health Research and Care
Hospital
Primary Care
Local Authority
Implementation
£20m £10m
Evaluation

3. The CLAHRC structure
Identify
service need
Implement
CLAHRC - Reviews
Develop
interventions
CLAHRC - Management
CLAHRC - Evaluate

4. How will we know we have
succeeded?
Communication
Publications Grants
Developcapacity
Client
engagement
Intervention
selection/adaptation
Interventions
evaluated

5. Service Impact: Extended
Collaborators

6. Academic Outputs: Papers
26.054
54.982
139.618
116.491
8.174
104.782
81.346
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Maternity &
child health
[Th. 1]
Youth mental
health
[Th. 2]
Prevention &
detection of
diseases
[Th. 3]
Chronic
diseases
[Th. 4]
Implementation
& organisational
studies
[Th. 5]
Research
methods
[Th. 6]
CLAHRC-BBC
Legacy Work
[Th. 7]
Sumofimpactfactor(♦)
Numberofpapers(Σ=141)
Theme

7. Academic Outputs: External
Grant Income
0
2000000
4000000
6000000
8000000
10000000
12000000
14000000
Maternity & child
health
[Th. 1]
Youth mental
health
[Th. 2]
Prevention &
detection of
diseases
[Th. 3]
Chronic diseases
[Th. 4]
Implementation &
organisational
studies
[Th. 5]
Research
methods
[Th. 6]
Other & CLAHRC-
BBC legacy work
[Th. 7]
Amount(£)
• In year amount Apr 14 to Mar 15: £8,286,845 • Total amount: £47,725,281

8. Academic Outputs:
Postgraduate Support
0
5
10
15
20
25
Maternity & child
health
[Th. 1]
Youth mental
health
[Th. 2]
Prevention &
detection of
diseases
[Th. 3]
Chronic diseases
[Th. 4]
Implementation &
organisational
studies
[Th. 5]
Research
methods
[Th. 6]
Cross-cutting
Theme
supervision
[Th. 7]
PhD MD MSc Other
• Total number of postgraduate students: 83

9. Key Special Initiatives & Events
Event Outputs
Integrating care for people with
chronic diseases – National
CLAHRC workshop
Collaborative grant with
PenCLAHRC
- Methods for service delivery
workshop with Prof Kieran
Walshe at Manchester
- Psychology of change
workshop with Prof Susan
Michie, UCL
Development of MRC framework
for evaluation of complex
interventions to contribute
evidence from a health service
context
Patient safety forum Patient safety emerging as cross-
cutting Theme.

10. How is it really going?
1) Existing themes vs. new theme
2) NIHR + Matched funds don’t match!
Variable engagement
3) Patchwork quilt
4) Convert rate to grant application*
5) Managing diverse enterprise
6) Emerging strength in behavioural and organisational psychology
7) AHSN relations
8) Changing political environment
9) Online testing + public engagement with science
10) Cross-cutting themes*
*Advice from Scientific Advisory Group

12. Discussions