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24th May 2012
How can researchers help to shape the delivery of services, enhance practice, influence policy, inform new product development?
Strengthening research collaborations
Strengthening research collaborations will be achieved through:
- Building on existing Wales-based service provider and practitioner networks.
- Facilitating collaborative research between diverse groups, for example, bio medical engineers, clinicians, policy makers, practitioners and older people.
- Building strong links with networks focusing on older people, for example, the National Partnership Forum for Older People and Age Alliance.
- Building relationships with other research networks for example, clinical networks; UK and international academic networks; other Welsh research networks or groups including Dementias and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Patient and Public Participation, BME, Health Economics (WHEN), Qualitative Inquiry (QUIC), Self-care, Public Health, NHS R&D and Emergency Care.
- Sustaining links with professional and service networks, for example, All Wales Unit for Social Services Departments, All Wales Stroke network, Wales Clinical Trials network, British Geriatrics Society, Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Gerontology Practitioners Network, Consultant Nurse Cymru, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and Wales Therapies Advisory Committee.
- Linking with other European, North American and International networks.