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Centre of Excellence Status Renewed
KEELE'S ARTHRITIS RESEARCH UK CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE STATUS RENEWED
Keele's Arthritis Research UK Centre of Excellence status has, following extensive external review, been renewed for a further five years with funding of £2.2million.
The five-year strategy for the Centre is to produce research that will underpin a shift in the way musculoskeletal disorders are managed in primary care management; away from a narrow focus on disease and reactive treatments (dealing with today's problems as presented by patients), to an increasing emphasis on:
- Pro-active, positive approaches to seeking out patients needing more support for self-management, as well as those needing more input from doctors or other health professionals, and developing and testing new ways of organising primary care which better meets these needs and takes the physical, psychological and social needs of patients into account
- Using our research into which physical, psychological and social factors predict what impact that musculoskeletal pain has on their every-day lives to define groups of patients with similar characteristics, and to match these patients with appropriate treatments, thus making sure that the right patients get the right treatment in a timely manner.
Professor Elaine Hay, Director, Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre at Keele, said "We will achieve this through three research programmes, addressing the two most common musculoskeletal problems (osteoarthritis and chronic musculoskeletal pain), and the most common inflammatory diseases (gout and polymyalgia rheumatica) presenting to primary care. Each programme brings together our clinical expertise in primary care with our strengths in observational research, clinical trials and qualitative research."
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