Prof Richard Lilford's presentation on the year that was for the CLAHRC WM Matched Funders Forum, 9th June 2015, Birmingham, UK

1. NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research
and Care West Midlands (CLAHRC WM)
Matched Funders Forum

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

3. Themes in CLAHRC WM
Service themes:
Cross cutting and supporting themes:
£5,523,741 £2,266,995 £2,247,891 £8,789,727

4. How will we know how we have
used your matched funding wisely?
Engaged with you and
the people you serve
Documented
knowledge transfer
Evaluated service
change ‘on the
ground’
Secured
follow-on
funding
Published
Created self-
replicating process
University
Developed
capacity
Services

5. Theme 2: A Big Hit

6. Theme 1: Maternity and Child Health
 Effective practice – promoting spontaneous onset labour (step
wedge trial, n = 2,787)
 Maternity triage
 Lay health workers (RCT n = 1,500)
 Home birth
 Discharge policy
 Paediatric prescribing support

7. Theme 3: Prevention and Detection
In the first year:
 Completed 14 systematic reviews, published 37 papers and brought in
£5,347,010 in total grant income.
 Research highlights:
o Changing Case Order to Optimise Patterns of Performance in
Screening (CO-OPS) Trial recruited 1.1million women.
o Families for Health: community-based service intervention concerned
with supporting families with weight-management.
o Lighten-Up Plus to evaluate a text-based weight management
programme.
 Examples of impact:
o A number of systematic reviews have been completed and published in
the Cochrane Reviews library and have influenced health policy.
o We highlight the impact on influencing national screening
policies, particularly in demonstrating the benefits of extending
the blood spot testing in neonates.

8. 1) Integrated care
o Home dialysis
o Overview of systematic reviews
o Supported integrated discharge service
o Virtual out-patient clinics
o Integrated medical and social care
o Multidisciplinary teams
o Management of multi-morbidity
2) Psychological needs
o End stage renal disease
o Depression in multi-morbidity
Theme 4: Chronic Diseases
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
24
2009 2010 2011 2012
Percentage
of dialysis
patients on
home
dialysis
Year
Rest of
England
West Midlands

9. Other outputs
Gearing = 1:19
141 papers published (mean Impact Factor
= 3.77; Lancet, JAMA, BMJ)
Papers
83 postgraduate studentsPostgraduates
Research showcase events to demonstrate
progress with particular collaborative
projects and to discuss priority areas for
further study and/or collaborative grant
applications.
Engagement events
1,300 subscribers and rising!News blog
Grants

10. Service Impact: Extended
Collaborators

11. 12/06/2015
Thank you for listening