We continue to coordinate IMPaCT Roundtables, which bring together key individuals with expertise from academic, health and social care, and third sector organisations, along with patient and public advisers who have lived experience.

Our Social Care Roundtable brings together stakeholders across children and young people’s, adults, and older people’s social care services. Membership includes local authority social care services, the Health Innovation Network (HIN), ARC NWC public advisors with lived experience, care homes, community health and care providers and academics from multiple universities across the region (Edge Hill, University of Central Lancashire, Lancaster University, and The University of Liverpool).

The Roundtable aims to understand how we can support the workforce to further develop their research and implementation skills and identify key challenges for the current workforce through three main strands:
1) Research and implementation capacity building; 2) Education; and 3) Collaboration.

To read more about our Social Care Research Capacity Building Programme and current Social Care activities, please see our blog: Social Care Research Capacity Building Programme – NIHR

If you would like to find out more, please contact Danielle Christian (dchristian@uclan.ac.uk) or James Watson (james.watson2@liverpool.ac.uk).