Who are we?
CWP REAL (Research, Effectiveness, Academia and Learning) aims to focus on the promotion and support of local research, improving effectiveness and learning that has a tangible benefit for our patients and population; we aim to support development of a strong research culture within CWP.
Our Objectives
CWP REAL aims to support and encourage development of a research active culture in both SMH and CWP. These represent the key functions of the service that directly contribute to this:
- To lead, promote and support local research and learning that has a tangible benefit for our patients and population
- To support training and service re-design which is academically informed from a methodological point of view, but is rooted in both patient and clinician experience
- To act as a conduit to allow improvements to effectiveness and quality to be delivered and made a reality.
- To support local teams to decide what questions need to be asked to improve services, and coming up with the answers to make this happen. This ensures teams are involved with their own transformation and improvement.
- To engage in meaningful co-production and involvement of patients, families and carers allowing us to understanding the needs of our CWP population
Who can do research?
We believe that anyone can get involved in research and that people can become involved at an individual stage or throughout the whole process; in many cases staff are already involved in some stage of research without knowing it through use of informal problem analysis and quality improvement approaches.
This means that everyone who has an interest in any of the following can be involved with research:
- Best approaches to enable the health and well-being of the population we serve, we need to ensure that what we do is informed by the relevant evidence
- Most effective interventions to safely improve health and well-being for people who use our services
- Best ways to assess and diagnose health and social care problems, their associated risks and potential protective factors
- Improving knowledge and understanding to inform how we design and deliver our services in the interest of people who use those services
- Establishment an evidence base for best practice to ensure learning and better outcomes are shared with others
- Developing and disseminating the best evidence based practice to how to help people who use our services
You can contact us at cwp.