A key aim within the NIHR SSCR is to involve people who use services, carers, practitioners, policy makers and relevant others in all the stages of research. The NIHR SSCR therefore aims to ensure the active, informed engagement of each of these groups in all of its activities.
The NIHR SSCR will conduct and commission research on adult social care practice in England. One of its principles is to ensure that the research proposals it receives and projects that it funds demonstrate evidence of meaningful user, carer and practitioner involvement. To assist with this, the NIHR SSCR has set up a User, Carer, Practitioner Reference Group (UCPRG) to hear and learn from the experiences, expectations and aspirations of people's real world experience of adult social care.
The Group will advise the NIHR SSCR Executive on its research and related activities. This advisory role will include identifying and shaping research questions, reviewing proposals, reviewing reports, and looking at the best ways of communicating research findings.
The Group met for the first time in July 2009 to agree membership and terms of reference, details of which will be available in the Autumn.
Read more about members of the UCPRG|.
For further information contact Dr Gill Hastings (tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6528; email: g.hastings@lse.ac.uk|).
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