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Having spent all night in A&E last night when my Dad had a bad fall, this thread says everything about our experience in Kent and what I observed over 12 hours. Thread by Dr Luke Craddock on Thread Reader App threadreaderapp.com/thread/1876945…

rdcu.be/d5EIO Our new paper highlights how older people with cognitive impairment adapt & accept limitations as part of aging. We question the reliance on self-direction in care & call for more comprehensive needs assessment & supports to promote reablement Prof Ann-Marie Towers

For growth, #SharedLives schemes need (1) collaborative working with social workers; (2) leadership at different levels; (3) mechanisms to harness knowledge & evidence; (4) investment in staff & carers. See academic.oup.com/bjsw/article/d… Carl Purcell Jill Manthorpe Juliette Malley

Come join Monica Leverton 🟧 Annette Boaz and I at HSCWRU with this new exciting Research Associate role! Plus you'll benefit from the additional expertise of project team member Mark Wilberforce 🥳kcl.ac.uk/jobs/103567-re…

Sad to end my morning walk today! 🐶

Piloting a minimum data set for older people living in care homes in England: a developmental study academic.oup.com/ageing/article… - one of the final papers from DACHA_Study, led by the indefatigable Claire Goodman💚 - too many colleagues involved to tag here - but all named below.

Thanks National Institute for Health and Care Research for enabling DACHA_Study - results now #openaccess in Age_and_Ageing academic.oup.com/ageing/article… Working with The Health Foundation National Care Forum & colleagues to link #carehome records with administrative data led by Adam Gordon MBE Prof Ann-Marie Towers Claire Goodman💚 #datachangeslives

Closing date 29 January 2025. Still time to apply. Really nice project and fantastic team. We'd like to hear from #postdocs and those nearing completion of #PhD in a closely related discipline/field. Esp those with experience in #health #socialcare in the community

NEW PAPER DACHA_Study @DrStaceyRand Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional study bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1/e…

NEW ASCOT tool measuring the care work-related QoL of the #socialcare #workforce. The ASCOT-Workforce was used in the national wellbeing survey of the ASC workforce and tested with care workers, social workers, OTs, PAs, and nurses working in ASC. pssru.ac.uk/ascot/ascot-wo…

New Tool available from the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit ASCOT - ASCOT-WORKFORCE: resources for people working in adult #socialcare This tool measures care work related quality of life! More info here: pssru.ac.uk/ascot/ascot-wo… Prof Ann-Marie Towers

Why was there low engagement from adult social care with the NHS and Care Volunteer Responders scheme btn June 2023 – March 2024? Insights from key stakeholders in our new report👇HSCWRU kcl.ac.uk/news/volunteer… Thanks to all who shared their views and experiences

Not too late to register for this NIHR webinar about improving #socialcare for #seldomheard groups tomorrow with the fantastic Monica Leverton 🟧 and Jess Harris from HSCWRU gmg-lgcgroup.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Join this short course for health and social care practitioners, policymakers and researchers interested in learning more about implementation science. #ImpSci arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/imp-sci-module

📢 We are looking for a PROJECT MANAGER for the NIHR Social Care Workforce Research Partnership project, led by Prof Prof Ann-Marie Towers Full time post. Closing: 28-Mar-2025 Details 👇 kcl.ac.uk/jobs/109185-pr…

Many congratulations to everyone but a special mention to our HSCWRU Unit Director Annette Boaz 👏🏻🍾🥂

£24 million has been invested into 5 innovative new research partnerships designed to tackle major challenges facing NHS and social care staff. The partnerships will develop and test innovations to improve the quality of health and social care services – improving staff retention

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced Knowledge Mobilisation (KM) specialist to lead development and delivery of our KM strategy and activities. The successful candidate will be based at The Policy Institute Find out more: bit.ly/42B4vrb Annette Boaz

Gina Walton from KCC kicking off our celebration conference for Kent Research Partnership . The programme funded by National Institute for Health and Care Research aimed to build research capacity in adult social care. Can’t believe it’s been four years! 🎉

Celebrating our achievements and progress through research-practice partnerships National Care Forum Kent Research Partnership