The specific aims of the ITT are:

• To explore ways of getting research in to practice more quickly.
• To develop partnership working between University of Leicester and the NHS in LNR.
• To conduct projects which improve the health of patients in LNR.

The development of projects in this theme is based on a co-production approach. Our interpretation of co-production includes all phases of the process of research: identifying research areas; developing project proposals; conducting projects; and disseminating the findings of projects. Co-production primarily involves University and NHS staff, and PPI (patient and public involvement).

For a discussion of implementation and translation please read our Implementation Science paper.

Projects:
Implementation projects are designed to increase understanding of how to get research into practice. There is often a significant time lag before research findings are put into practice, and this means that healthcare is not as good as it could be. However, the reasons for this delay are not fully understood.

The Implementation Theme of CLAHRC-LNR is conducting several small projects to increase our understanding of how to get research into practice so that the lessons learnt can be applied more widely. The projects address local Trusts’ priorities -obesity emergency admissions and hypertension, for example.  The implementation projects also aim to bring about some improvements in healthcare and outcomes in the short term.

The involvement of LNR trusts' staff in the projects will help in the development of a research focus and the capacity to conduct research and service evaluation that leads to translation of research evidence into practice. Findings from projects are being shared via a variety of methods, including publication of papers in health journals.

Implementation projects include:
Implementation of NICE guidelines on obesity
Implementation of PCT guidelines on acute admissions in general practice
Detection of hypertension  
Health Education Reaching Out 
Implementing a standardised geriatric assessment proforma  

Translation projects
These projects are developed with NHS Trusts to improve aspects of service delivery and inform Trust decisions.
Translation projects include:
Explaining Acute Admissions
Variation in cardiovascular mortality

Trust Teams
CLAHRC-LNR has several project teams within the NHS partner Trusts to work on specific projects. As well as promoting the use of evidence, the projects involve members of staff in all aspects of the work, aiming to increase their research capacity and capability.
Examples of such projects include:
Pharmacy Support (NHFT)
Enhancing the Healing Environment (LPT)
Frail and Older People’s Advice and Liaison Service (UHL)
Enhanced GP role in management of CHD (Nene Commissioning, NHS Northamptonshire)

Supporting Implementation
The implementation theme provides support for the applied themes within CLAHRC-LNR and the partner NHS organisations through staff development events, offering project specific advice, delivering training courses and producing tools to help plan and document the progress of projects to implement research evidence into clinical practice.

The tools developed include the Plan for Implementing Evidence (PIE) and the Checklist for Implementation Progress (CHIPS), which can be found on this website in Implementation Tools.

Information on the training courses delivered by CLAHRC-LNR that are taking place within our partner NHS Trusts on implementing research evidence into clinical practice can be found in the Training and Education folders on this website.