This project wants to create an intervention to better support people living with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Previous research has shown that some people are not always aware of the connection between type 2 diabetes and CVD, and this can affect their ability to manage these conditions.
This research wants to involve people who live with type 2 diabetes and CVD, and the health professionals that support them, to co-create an intervention that can be tailored to individuals’ needs and help improve management of these conditions.
It is being carried out by researchers at the University of Liverpool and will form part of a doctoral degree.
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre is working on a number of research studies looking to improve diagnosis, treatment and care for a wide range of respiratory infections. This group will work with researchers to shape all stages of respiratory research (eg generating ideas for research, recruitment approaches, helping design content of patient information documents).
The group is being led by Vocal, a not-for-profit organisation, hosted by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with researchers at the University of Manchester.
MyWay Diabetes is a website and app that brings together people’s personal health records, learning resources and personalised advice. It is available in Greater Manchester, North West London (called Diabetes MyWay) and Somerset (called Know Diabetes).
Advisory group members will work with the research team to shape the research evaluating MyWay Diabetes. For example, co-designing workshops so people with diabetes feel comfortable joining, and sharing your views about how research findings should be shared with the diabetes community.
The advisory group is being led by Vocal , a not for profit organisation hosted by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with researchers at the University of Manchester.
Help researchers design a future study to make cardiac rehabilitation programmes more accessible.
You won’t be taking part in the research, just sharing your views on the proposed study (for example what taking part would look like and the information people would receive).
This involvement opportunity is being carried out by researchers at the University of Liverpool and will form part of a doctoral degree.
This project will involve the public in the design of a ‘secure data environment’ (SDE).
NHS England has asked the north-west region to develop a SDE. The SDE will allow researchers to securely access anonymised healthcare records for research on a wide range of topics. It is essential to involve local people in development of the SDE to understand their opinions, expectations, and concerns about the use of health data for research.
People of all ages, and from all backgrounds, are welcomed and encouraged to be take part. No previous experience of research, health data or advisory groups is needed.
This programme of work is being carried out by teams from Lancashire and South Cumbria, Cheshire and Merseyside and Greater Manchester integrated care systems.
This project will gather opinions from people living with long Covid to help researchers develop a funding application for a future study. The proposed study will track people diagnosed with long Covid, via their medical records, to help better understand the condition.
This project is being led by researchers at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust in collaboration with Health Innovation Manchester.
This project will bring together people of South Asian heritage who are living with heart disease and/or diabetes, to help develop a set of culturally appropriate standards which will be used to assess if research into new treatments is effective and valued.
The project is being carried out by a team of researchers based at Liverpool John Moores University. It is funded by the British Heart Foundation.
This project is looking to bring together a group of people with severe asthma to help develop a grant application for a study that will use digital scanning technologies to help understand what happens when someone breathes.
The scanning technologies are already being studied as part of the Optimuscle study for people with breathing pattern disorder of dysfunctional breathing. Researchers are hoping to extend this technology and treatment to those with asthma.
It is being carried out by a team of researchers based at the University of Salford.
This project will establish a PAG (patient advisory group) group to help lead a study investigating the uptake and cost-effectiveness of lung cancer screening.
Cancer screening programmes often experience low participation rates from certain groups of people, including those from minority ethnic groups and those living in deprived areas. This project will look at how uptake of screening can be encouraged from all eligible members of the target population.
The PAG will contribute to the design of a screening programme and co-produce documents to be used as part of the project, for example participant information sheets, surveys, and plain language summaries.
It is being carried out by researchers based at The University of Manchester’s Centre for Health Economics, as part of an NIHR doctoral fellowship award.
This project will explore people’s experiences of being registered with Research for the Future, and other research databases, as well as exploring views and perceptions of how personal information might be shared across the NHS for research purposes.
Feedback from this workshop will be combined with the results from a wide-scale survey and reported back to NHS England to help them deliver the NHS Long Term Plan’s ambition to increase the number of people taking part in research.
- The workshop will take place on Monday 19 February 2024 (10am to 12.30pm, location to be confirmed).
This project is funded by NHS England and is being carried out by a team from the Northern Care Alliance in collaboration with the NIHR Clinical Research Network.
This project will bring people together to explore how care, and treatments are offered to those living with chronic kidney disease in Greater Manchester.
The workshop will use a process called ‘Journey Mapping’ to exchange experiences, understand the issues, understand what matters most to patients and their carers. Bringing together insights and ideas from previous workshops, this session will explore opportunities for transformation and improvement that address the needs and priorities across Greater Manchester
It will take place on Friday, 15 March 2024, 10am to 1pm
It is being carried out by a project team at Health Innovation Manchester in collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim.
This project is looking to establish a patient panel to help develop a grant application for a study investigating RSS, a method of rehabilitation for people who have experienced stroke.
RSS (repetitive sensory stimulation) uses a unique glove to provide an electrical stimulus and has the potential to improve arm function after stroke. The proposed study will investigate the effectiveness of RSS and how it can be provided to patients soon after they experience stroke to maximise improvements.
The PULSE (rePetitive Upper Limb SEnsory stimulation early after a stroke) project is being carried out by a team of researchers at the University of Central Lancashire.
