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Mission

HSRU Mission

To develop a high quality programme of applied health research, training, and evaluation, in partnership with NHS and other local service providers, designed to be of direct benefit to patients and to inform health care policy and practice locally, nationally and internationally.

Initial Focus

 HSRU Initial Focus

To support research, training and evaluation linked to service development at the interface between primary and secondary care, and across the multiple clinical disciplines and interdisciplinary teams involved in the delivery of that care, and to support:

1. the North Staffordshire health economy’s Fit for the Future programme of providing innovative specialist care closer to the community and to home and
2. the development of the West Midlands (North) Health Innovation and Education Cluster (HIEC).

To promote health services research training and capacity development and to support awareness and expertise in evaluation methods embedded in service

Management

HSRU Management

The Health Services Research Unit Board represents the two Research Institute partners, the West Midlands (North) Research Design Service (RDS), Staffordshire University, and NHS partners, including UHNS, Stoke PCT, North Staffordshire PCT, the Fit for the Future programme, commissioning, provider and patient organisations. 

The purpose of the Board is to shape and set the overall strategy and programme of the HSRU, and review its budget and performance. The HSRU Board will also act as the group responsible for overseeing the operational delivery of the HIEC programme, through regular meetings of a Management & Budget Group.  

Two groups, aScientific Group and a HIEC Development Group, accountable to the Board, will develop programmes and projects, and organise calls for proposals. The Scientific Group will also scrutinise, peer review and approve project, fellowship and PhD proposals. The two groups will each be represented on the Board.

HSRU Management Board:  

Institutional representatives:

• Staffordshire University
• GP Commissioners
• Fit for the Future
• University Hospital of North Staffordshire (UHNS)
• Stoke and North Staffordshire Primary Care Trusts (PCTs)
• PCDU
• West Midlands North Health Innovation & Education Cluster (HIEC WMN)
• Users

Faculty of Health Representatives:

• Institute for Science & Technology in Medicine (ISTM)
• Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences
• Clinical academics
• HSR Scientific and Methodology groups
• HIEC Development Group
• Nursing and Allied Health professionals

News and events

HSRU news and events:

• October 2011 - Prestigious Florence Nightingale Scholarship for Keele lecturer
  

• March 2012 - Collaboration on Heart Failure Research and Nurse Education

• September 2012 - New Research Fellowship to study Co-morbidity in Heart Failure Patients

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Contact HSRU

HSRU Key contacts:

• Dr Roger Beech - Reader in Health Services Research +44 (0)1782 733763
• Dr Lucy Doos - Research Associate in Health Service Research +44 (0)1782 733765
• Dr Umesh Kadam - Senior Lecturer in GP Epidemiology +44 (0)1782 733764

HSRU Location:

Activities of the HSR Initiative involve both the University and Hospital sites.

The Innovation Centre 1 (IC1) on Keele Campus: houses some of the theme leads and research fellows within the UHNS-Keele collaboration, including HIEC -sponsored clinical research project teams. The Research Design Service is also based here.

The Courtyard Annexe at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire: houses the clinical leads and some of the project teams and research fellows for the UHNS-iSTM collaboration; the management, support staff and leadership of iSTM and UHNS R&D.

Access HSRU

How to access HSRU:

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