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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
    4. Starting Well: Children's Mental Health
    5. Primary and Community Health Services
    6. Living Well with Dementia
    7. Co-production
    8. Public Health
    9. Digital Innovation
    10. Economics of Health and Social Care
    11. Covid-19
    12. Implementation
    13. Rapid Evidence Synthesis
  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. Previous Research Weeks
    7. Your Health and Social Care Research Quick GuideYour Health and Social Care Research Quick Guide
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Implementation is a core function at the Applied Research Collaboration Kent Surrey and Sussex (ARC KSS). It plays a vital role in supporting the translation and implementation of research evidence into practice.

To make sure that our research is relevant and implementable, we have co-developed our themes with key stakeholders. These themes are recognised as priority areas of need within the region’s health and social care system. In addition, the views and thoughts of those accessing or delivering health and social care services will also be placed at the heart of our research. This will ensure that our esearch activities address the needs of our populations, including hard to reach groups, across the region.

The Health Innovation Kent, Surrey, Sussex (Health Innovation KSS) supports the Implementation focus of the ARC KSS, and Dr MaryAnn Ferreux, Implementation Lead at ARC KSS and Chief Medical Officer at Health Innovation KSS, leads this function. The ARC KSS implementation team also includes four core Theme Implementation Managers:

Becky Sharp - Social Care
Becca Randall - Children and Young People’s Mental Health
Sam Fraser - Primary and Community Services
Kath Sykes - Living Well with Dementia

The aim of the ARC KSS Implementation function and its team is to:

  • Use people’s (users of services and frontline staff) stories to develop research questions that address locally recognised needs. This will improve implementation of our research findings by making them meaningful to, and embedded in, the needs of our population.
  • Work with system leaders and budget holders from the start to align priorities and need, engaging leaders in the work we produce.
  • Understand relevant research, studies, projects, innovative practice, existing models of care and their evidence base - what works, and what good looks like locally, nationally, and internationally.
  • Feedback and disseminate our findings to provide challenge and inform ARC research activities locally and nationally.
  • Prioritise a number of key research outcomes (evidence-based interventions) and actively support their implementation.
  • Support local researchers to disseminate findings and information from activities that meet ARC criteria of co-design, robust research methodology, and evidence of impact.
  • Improve health and social care outcomes to the public through implementing and integrating research activity, outcomes, and new models of care that:
    • are recognised by end users as needs and priorities and co-produced with them
    • improve quality and safety
    • are evidence-based
    • reduce unwarranted variation
    • are cost effective and sustainable.

 Download the NIHR ARC KSS Implementation Strategy

 

Interview with Des Holden, Implementation Lead, NIHR ARC KSS

To find out more about getting evidence into practice and the ARC KSS implementation approach Dr Rowena Merritt, Research Fellow in the Centre for Health Services Studies at the University of Kent, talked to Dr Des Holden about why ARC KSS is so focussed on implementation, what his vision for ARC KSS is for the next five years and what he thinks they will accomplish. 

Read the full interview here.

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