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Catalysing knowledge exchange through partnership working

Professor Rachel Churchill

Professor of Evidence Synthesis

Coordinating Editor, Cochrane Common Mental Disorders

Knowledge Exchange Fellow, TEWV and NTW NHS Foundation Trusts

Lead, UoY Mental Health Research Partnerships

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York hosts the Cochrane Common Mental Disorders Group What is Cochrane? An international not-for-profit organisation dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available worldwide How is our the Cochrane Common Mental Disorder Group organised? Work with nearly 1200 authors from 34 countries, with CMD satellite groups • Suicide and Self-Harm (Wales) • Global Mental Health (Italy) • Children and Young People (New Zealand) What the Common Mental Disorders Group produces Systematic reviews of healthcare interventions for preventing and treating a range of mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, somatoform disorders and suicide

Scope • Anxiety disorders • Depressive disorders • Bipolar disorder • Eating disorders • Suicide and self-harm NHS/NGO/PLE engagement • Partner with NHS • Partner with Mental

Health Foundation • Capacity building for PLE • Advisory Bd chaired by

former NHS CEO

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Content - key priority areas for CCMD • Prevention (including complex interventions targeting social determinants of mental health) and Increased focus on

lifestyle/well-being interventions (including peer support, and community, environmental, digital and psychosocial approaches)

• Comorbidities • Suicide and Self-Harm (satellite in Swansea, Wales in partnership with Public Health Wales) • Global Mental Health (field across Mental Health in partnership with WHO Collaborating Centre for MH, Verona, Italy) • Children and Young People (satellite in Auckland, New Zealand)

Methodological innovations • Rapid reviews, complex review methods development (including mixed methods reviews and extended NMA to

incorporate observational data to better address MH evidence needs and make best use of available evidence), combining with Value of Information (VoI - to guide research funding decisions), IPD, prognosis reviews

• Knowledge translation research

Outputs - emphasis on • Targeted KT outputs - (e.g. infographics and animations, blogs) • Co-production- improving relevance of methods and content in collaboration with our partners and stakeholders • Learning resources – including learning materials for decision-makers and people with lived experience

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Who uses our health care evidence? Intended to inform choices by health practitioners, patients and families, policy makers and others

Targeted KT outputs – examples….

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Co-production/partnership examples:

• Working with health care providers, people with lived experience and their

families and carers – priority-setting programmes: • Depression • Bipolar disorder • Digital mental health interventions • Global mental health • Young people’s mental health

• Work alongside the NHS – e.g. TEWV and NTW Trusts

• Partnerships with third sector organisations – e.g. Mental Health Foundation, Mind, McPin

• Inform the work of guideline developers – e.g. NICE and WHO

Priorities for research in children and young people’s mental health

Project aims:

• To provide a catalyst for knowledge exchange between TEWV and UoY

• To support the extension of knowledge resources, including developing existing Clinical Q&A (based on previous work)

• To co-design and co-produce funding proposals for joint projects based in the Trust

Additional partner:

Main partner:

Working alongside the NHS

Challenges (and opportunities)

Goals Implementation

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Value of NHS Knowledge Exchange work

• Benefits to partners in identifying, creating and using high quality evidence

• Capacity building and support for NHS staff as future research leaders and contributors (eg critical appraisal skills training videos; establishing a ‘college’ of Trust systematic reviewers)

• More efficient use of internal resources by partners

• Increased engagement with healthcare practitioners to understand research needs and priorities and broker new relationships across the UoY

• Identification of high priority topics for evidence synthesis to underpin decision-making and new primary research

• Joint projects (complete and ongoing), funding proposals, and co-production work

• Consolidated UoY/TEWV partnership; enhanced collaboration with NTW - efficiencies/sharing between neighbouring Trusts, new partnerships and involvement in second NIHR ARC

• Sustained partnership funding to progress beyond this funding period

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• Fundraising for and engagement in Mental Health Research (Campaign for York)

• Engage patients and service users in research activity (Involvement@YorK)

• Build and sustain partnerships

• Further underpin internal UoY interdisciplinarity to increase innovation and enhance mental health research activity

• Extend and consolidate external partnerships (universities, NHS Trusts, commissioners, local authorities, schools, third sector and patient groups)

• Develop KE activities with local and regional NHS Trusts and commissioning organisations - starting with establishing a hub of high quality evidence-based mental health resources to guide decision-making at the point of need – current interest from CCGs/LA, AHSN, NGOs, patient groups and others

Significant UoY internal investment in MH Research

1. Identify what needs to be done

2. A MIRACLE OCCURS

3. Everything gets better

”we could be a little more explicit here at step two””

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Outputs and knowledge mobilisation:

• PLE authored Plain Language Summaries - supported through learning materials • Curated evidence summaries and accompanying dissemination materials • Community-driven blog commentary pieces (PLE, S4BE, Mental Elf, MHF) • Social media/facilitated online discussion (with MHF and Mental Elf) • Webinars/YouTube content • A ‘get involved’ pathway for consumers • Public engagement activities with MHF and CCN

And, to support NHS engagement more broadly… • Online learning modules (TEWV and NTW) • Implementation framework - ‘whole systems’ approach

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Thank you for listening

Acknowledgements Funders: • NIHR – funds Cochrane Common Mental Disorders • Knowledge Exchange Fellowship funded through ESRC Impact Accelerator Award with matched

funding from TEWV and NTW • Follow-on project work now supported through TEWV RCF and UoY MHR Partnerships project funded

by Centre for Future Health and NIHR

CCMD team and NHS partners: