1. Involvement in NIHR Dissemination Centre
Hope you have already visited our stand – if not please do at tea break
Want to use this time to tell you about the work of the DC and how it is impacting on clinicians, managers and patients within Wessex and beyond.
Alison Ford
Head of Engagement

2. Right evidence, better decisions
Our aim is to put good research evidence at the heart of decision making in the NHS, public health and social care.
DC was established in order to make the evidence from NIHR-funded research easily accessible to all those who need to know

3. Our products NIHR Signals NIHR Highlights Comprehensiveness Frequency
The latest important research,  summarised
NIHR Highlights
Frequency
Conditions, treatments and issues explored using NIHR evidence
Comprehensiveness
Themed Reviews
Bringing together NIHR research on a particular theme

4. Signals published online, mailing list, RSS feed. Twitter
Signals published online, mailing list, RSS feed. Twitter. Ingested into other search databases
Clinical, managerial and patient experts are involved in all signals as expert commentators – this example features expert commentary by Amir Qureshi

5. You decide what we share
Over a thousand people - doctors, nurses, therapists, managers, researchers, patients and carers - help us decide which research is most important
But at an earlier stage we involved professionals and patients to advise the selection decisions re abstracts to be converted into Signals
I’m going to ask all of you to consider signing up to be a rater and contribute to this micro-crowdsourcing of ideas

6. “Thank you, I have enjoyed participating. Good luck with the project”
Raters
“The activity is a positive one and I am more than happy to
continue as a rater”
“Doing a rating is a unique experience. One has to read, digest and understand”
“Thank you, I have enjoyed participating. Good luck with the project”
“Overall it is a great service to be able to rate the importance of the health research - I am proud to be a part
of that service.”
This is what a sample of people said in a survey of raters conducted earlier this year

7. Care at the Scene Themed Reviews
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Themed Reviews feature a different kind of involvement, that of steering group members – experts of all kinds to act as critical friend to the process of summarising and posing questions to the readers. Mark Ainsworth-Smith of SCAS was able to set the scene and to enable us to include direct quotes from ambulance staff. Big impact on launch event to an under-served audience, prompting a robust discussion among paramedics, commissioners, service managers and patients.

8. Join our many supporters…

9. Get involved Join the DC mailing list & receive regular Signals
Register as a rater
Read DC’s outputs
Follow DC on Twitter
@NIHR_DC