Joint Health Research Conference:  
  Committed to better research in the NHS
     
  Wednesday 4th March 2009
East Midlands Conference Centre, University Park, Nottingham
Registration from 9am - Close at 4.30pm
 

    programme  
 
From 09.00 Registration and NIHR exhibition
   
09.45 Session One: Welcome by Chair
  Professor Ian Hall
Dean Elect, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nottingham
   
09.50 Introduction
Dr Barbara Hakin OBE
Chief Executive, NHS East Midlands
   
10.05 Keynote speech: Delivering Best Research for Best Health
Professor Dame Sally C. Davies
Director General of Research and Development, Department of Health
   
10.50 The keys to success in obtaining NIHR funding
Dr David King
Director, Central Commissioning Facility (CCF)
   
11.20 Coffee and NIHR exhibition
   
11.45 Session Two: Welcome by Chair
  Professor Mike Saks
Senior Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Lincoln
   
11.50

Research - is what we know what we do?
Mike Cooke
Chief Executive, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Professor Graeme Currie
Director, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire CLAHRC

   
12.10 The vision for R&D in the East Midlands
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri
Chief Executive, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
   
12.30 Launch of the East Midlands Health R&D Strategy
Dr David Walker
Regional Director of Public Health, NHS East Midlands
   
12.50 Lunch
  NIHR exhibition
  Opportunity to view NIHR films in main theatre
   
14.00 Interactive seminar session 1
   
  1.1 Better collaboration in East Midlands
  Professor Oleg Eremin, Clinical Director Trent CLRN
 
  • Overview of Trent, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Comprehensive Local Research Networks (CLRN)
  • The benefits of greater collaboration
  • Areas for further collaboration
  • Achieving more collaboration
   
  1.2 Translating your research into practice
  Professor Graeme Currie, Director, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire CLAHRC
Paul Davey, Central Engagement Manager, UKPubMed
Alison Booth, Research Fellow, Centre for Review and Dissemination
 
  • Making your research available through UKPubMed
  • Dissemination – an integral part of the process
  • The role of CLAHRCs in translating research into practice
   
  1.3 Getting your research off the ground – the research journey
  Dr Heather Fortnum, Director, National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing and NIHR RDS East Midlands
Martin Williams, University of Leicester
 
  • What support is provided by the RDS
  • How to get advice on all aspects of design and funding opportunities
  • Your questions answered
   
  1.4 What does NIHR have to offer to the life science industries?
A focus on the medical technology industry
  Dr Louise Wood, Deputy Director - Head of Innovation and Industry R&D Relations, Department of Health
Jill Dhell, Innovation and Industry R&D Relations Manager, Department of Health
Mal Jarmolowicz, Managing Director, Atrakt Limited
 
  • Questions you wanted to ask if only you knew who to put them to
  • A small / medium enterprise puts the Department of Health on the spot
   
  1.5 Public involvement in research
  Sarah Buckland, Director, INVOLVE
 
  • Public involvement and the NIHR research programmes
  • Why public involvement is important
  • Barriers and challenges to public involvement
  • Introduction to the work and resources of INVOLVE
   
15.00 Interactive seminar session 2
   
  2.1 Getting more NIHR money for your research
  Dr David King, Director - NIHR CCF
Lynn Kerridge, Chief Executive Officer, NETSCC
 
  • What is available? Identifying the right NIHR programme for you: CCF managed research programmes or NETSCC managed research evaluation programmes?
  • Knowing the scope, types of research funding, and how and when to apply
  • Find out about payment of Full Economic Costs and direct costs
  • Get the website addresses if you need further information and to keep in touch.
   
  2.2 Removing the barriers – integration and networking: beyond the basics
  Elizabeth Kettle, Senior Manager Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland CLRN
Roz Sorrie, Lead RM&G Manager, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland CLRN
Clare O'Neill, R&D Project Manager (Primary Care), Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland CLRN
 
  • Supporting researchers during the review and approvals process
  • CSP / IRAS and advice for submissions
  • Benefits of effective integration
  • Harnessing the strengths of networks can result in demonstrable
    outcomes, an example from primary care
   
  2.3 More R&D in primary and community care
  Louise Woodward, Manager, PCRN East Midlands and South Yorkshire
Professor Brendan Delaney, Professor of Primary Care, The University of Birmingham
Professor David Challis, School for Primary Care Research
 
  • Overview of NIHR School for Social Care
  • Overview of NIHR School for Primary Care
  • Primary Care Research Network East Midlands and South Yorkshire Strategic Direction and key initiatives
  • Establishing clear links with provider services
   
  2.4 NIHR research training opportunities in the East Midlands
  Dr Isabelle de Wouters, Senior Manager, NIHR CCRCD
Leesa Rayton, Programme Manager, NIHR CCRCD
Linda Robinson, Programme Manager, NIHR CCRCD
 
  • Clinical Academic Training Pathway for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professions
  • NIHR Fellowships Scheme
  • NIHR Healthcare Scientists Research Fellowships
  • NIHR Integrated Academic Training Pathway for Doctors and Dentists
   
  2.5 How to get your research approved
 

Dr Janet Messer, Deputy Director, NHS R&D Forum
Elaine Campbell, CSP Project Manager, NIHR Clinical Research Network Coordinating Centre
Karen Matthews, Research Approval Manager, NIHR Clinical Research Network Coordinating Centre

 
  • IRAS - the one stop shop for all regulated research form entry, covering the range of approvals for different types of research studies
  • Find out about how to gain NHS permission for clinical research studies through the NIHR Coordinated System for Gaining NHS Permission (CSP). CSP has a single point of access and application (via IRAS) and links in with a number of other processes, including gaining ethics and other regulatory approvals through IRAS.
   
   
16.00

Panel discussion and questions from the floor
(delegates will be asked to submit questions to a “posting box” throughout the day and these will be grouped into topics and asked of the panel during the session.)

Chair:
Dr Russell Hamilton,
Director of Research and Development, Department of Health

Panel:
Professor Dame Sally C. Davies
Professor Ian Hall
Professor Mike Saks
Mike Cooke
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri
Dr David Walker


   
16.30 Close
   
   
  This programme is correct at time of publication but may be subject to changes.