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  1. About Us
    1. About Us
    2. The Team
    3. Member Organisations
    4. Governance
  2. Research, Implementation and Impact
    1. Research, Implementation and Impact
    2. Impact
    3. Social Care and Social Work
      1. Social Care and Social Work
      2. Social Care - Kent, Surrey & Sussex Region
        1. Social Care - Kent, Surrey & Sussex Region
        2. Meet the team
    4. Starting Well: Children's Mental Health
      1. Starting Well: Children's Mental Health
      2. Meet the team
    5. Primary and Community Health Services
      1. Primary and Community Health Services
      2. Meet the team
    6. Living Well with Dementia
      1. Living Well with Dementia
      2. Meet the team
    7. Co-production
      1. Co-production
      2. Meet the team
    8. Public Health
      1. Public Health
      2. Meet the team
    9. Digital Innovation
      1. Digital Innovation
      2. Meet the team
    10. Economics of Health and Social Care
      1. Economics of Health and Social Care
      2. Meet the team
    11. Covid-19
    12. Implementation
      1. Implementation
      2. Meet the team
    13. Rapid Evidence Synthesis
      1. Rapid Evidence Synthesis
      2. Meet the team
  3. Public and Community Involvement
    1. Public and Community Involvement
    2. What is PCIE?
    3. Getting Involved
    4. Support for researchers
    5. Resources
    6. PCIE Guide
      1. PCIE Guide
      2. Contents
      3. Introduction
        1. Introduction
        2. An overview of ARC KSS
        3. Who can help you with PCIE?
        4. Terminology and PCIE
      4. Why and When to do PCIE
        1. Why and When to do PCIE
        2. Why involve members of the public in research?
        3. Why do members of the public want to get involved in research?
        4. When to get members of the public involved?
      5. How to do PCIE
        1. How to do PCIE
        2. Communication and Accessibility
        3. Budgeting
        4. Planning for involvement and engagement
        5. How to recruit members of the public
        6. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
        7. Approaches – different options for undertaking PCIE
        8. Facilitating meetings and Group dynamics
        9. Ethics
        10. Feedback
        11. Impact and Evaluation
      6. Examples/Case Studies
      7. Appendix/Useful tools
  4. Learning and Development
    1. Learning and Development
    2. ARC KSS AcademyARC KSS Academy
    3. Learning and DevelopmentLearning and Development
      1. Learning and Development
      2. Learning and Development Finder
      3. Researchers Journeys
    4. MentorshipMentorship
    5. Research communities of practiceResearch communities of practice
    6. Research Week Research Week
      1. Research Week
      2. Poster Competition 2024
      3. Previous Research Weeks
    7. Your Health and Social Care Research Quick GuideYour Health and Social Care Research Quick Guide
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NIHR ARC KSS has funded six, innovative projects to help bring about positive change to health and social care services for the benefit of the public, patients, service users and providers across and the Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

The successful projects were selected as part of ARC KSS’s Towards Changing Practice funding call last year and are all closely aligned with one or more of ARC KSS’s themes. They all involve an intervention, or a new way of providing care, that has already shown potential benefits, are ready to be tested in the ‘real world’ or need to be scaled up.

The projects, which started this spring, will run for up to two years and involve and engage with members of the public and communities.

Funded projects: 
1- Community and Voluntary organisation Evaluation Toolkit (CAVEAT)
This project aims to develop and test a set of resources and guidelines - a toolkit - that voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations organisations can use to collect information and data and demonstrate their activities and impact.

For further information contact:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. at the Centre for Health Service Studies (CHSS) University of Kent.

2- Virtual consultations for people with learning disabilities (PwLD), their families and healthcare providers: a co-design study to aid implementation in everyday practice
This project aims to understand the experiences and views of PwLD and their families of accessing and interacting with healthcare providers using virtual consultations; explore health care providers’ views of delivering care virtually; and develop guidance and training materials to ensure best practice.

For further information contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Surrey.

3- Implementation of a risk prediction tool (RPT) to reduce medication-related harm (MRH) in older people post hospital discharge.
This project aims to recruit more than 600 older patients who are discharged from Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. East Surrey Hospital Trust and Medway Foundation Trust over a nine-month period to find out their MRH using the team’s RPT.

For further information contact: Dr Khalid Ali, Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

4- OPEL TOOLKIT: Design, pilot-implementation and evaluation of and interactive online toolkit for Optimising Hospice at Home Care Delivery
This project will design, pilot and evaluate an online, interactive toolkit, allowing palliative care service providers to map their hospice at home (or similar) service and receive context-specific guidance on optimising services.

For further information contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Kent.

5- Using data to enable targeted mental health support for people at high risk for SMI
To evaluate the feasibility of implementing a risk calculator in the Clinical Records Interactive Search (CRIS) system to identify people at high risk for psychosis and provide targeted mental health support.

For further information contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and University of Sussex.

6- Implementing the Eating and Drinking Ability Classification System (EDACS) across health and social care settings for adult s with cerebral palsy to improve share decision-making and eating and drinking outcomes
This project will identify and evaluate the implementation processes for Eating and Drinking Ability Classification System (EDACS) to shape health and social care practitioner’s interactions with adult with cerebral palsy and family care givers to improve eating, drinking and swallowing outcomes.   

For further information contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

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