Reports, toolkits and support

Led by Niccola Hutchinson Pascal from The Co-Production Collective, Dr Sarah Fearn, Senior Research Fellow, NIHR ARC Wessex, and Dr Jo Hope, Lecturer, School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton

Chair: Prof Julie Parkes, Professor of Public Health, ARC Wessex Healthy Communities Theme Lead Speakers: •Dr Stephen Lim, Consultant Geriatrician/ Principal Research Fellow at the University of Southampton: Engaging older adults to lead active and healthier lifestyles •Dr Carlos Lamas-Fernandez, Associate Professor in Business Analytics/ Management Science at the University of Southampton: Optimising routes and schedules of district nurses •Prof Michael Boniface, Professorial Fellow in Information Technology, Electronics & Computer Science at the University of Southampton: Predicting COVID-19 Patient Deterioration Risks in Communities and Evaluation of COVID Oximetry@Home

Webinar Chair Dr Jacqui Prieto, Associate Clinical Professor, Infection Prevention, University of Southampton Presentations to be included in the webinar Better mealtime care for residents with dementia In this project, researchers are engaging with local social care partners to ensure mealtime care training is fit for purpose. · Dr James Faraday, ARC Dementia Fellow, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, NHIP Academy: Meet our Community - Newcastle Health Innovation Partners · Julie Nisbet, Transformation Manager for Residential Care, Stockton on Tees Borough Council Enhancing hydration competence in the care workforce This project is about working with care homes, health and social care staff and other partners to co-produce and evaluate a hydration education programme for care homes. · Dr Phil Hodgson, Assistant Professor, Northumbria University, Philip Hodgson (northumbria.ac.uk) · Lynne Shaw (Strategic Workforce Development Lead (Older People), Gateshead NHS Foundation Trust Improving drinking for people living with dementia in care homes This project explores the way people living with dementia drink in long term care settings, and has been developed with contributions from public involvement partners. · Ellice Parkinson, Research Associate, University of East Anglia, Ellice Parkinson — University of East Anglia (uea.ac.uk)

By Leah Fullegar, Research Associate from the University of Portsmouth

Student nurse placements often focus on healthcare settings at the expense of social care experiences. In response, the University of Chester has developed an innovative indirect practice supervision/assessment model, which supports the development of social care-focused practice placements. This model is delivered via self-sustaining funding, ensuring optimum support for students and the practice area, and has gained traction at Higher Education Institutions across the UK. Chair: Dr. Kate H. Knight, Head of Division of Practice Education and Simulated Learning at the University of Chester Kathy Valentine – Practice Education Facilitator Social Care University of Chester for Cheshire and Merseycare: to discuss regional approaches to supporting students to fully engage in social care placements – overcoming the hurdles.  Lucy O Driscoll, Charlie Carroll, and Trish Partridge – Practice Education Facilitator PIVO and Primary Care University of Chester for Cheshire and

Chair: Professor Deborah Sturdy, England's Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care Georgios Tsakos, University College London: Improving the oral health of older people in care homes: a feasibility study (TOPIC). A study to understand how feasible the NICE guidelines are to implement in practice. Paul Brocklehurst, Bangor University and Gerry McKenna, Queen’s University Belfast: USing rolE-substitutioN In care hOmes to improve oRal health (SENIOR). A study to determine whether the use of Dental Care Professionals instead of dentists, could offer an alternative to NHS dental provision for residents in care-homes. Karen Spilsbury and Gail Douglas, University of Leeds: Caring Optimally: promoting effective Mouth MInuTes in care homes (COMMIT Study). A study in partnership with care homes, to find out how best to keep residents' mouths healthy by supporting staff to promote, in their day-to-day work, effective 'mouth minutes' for care for residents.

Dr Rhiannon Joslin is a physiotherapist who is passionate about improving health services for children and young people experiencing musculoskeletal pain. Her work focuses on empowering young people using creative and novel methods, providing a platform to hear their under-represented viewpoint. She was part of the guideline development group for the World Health Organization guidelines on the management of chronic pain in children and continues to represent physiotherapy within this field. Karen Hurtubise completed her doctorate in Clinical Research in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke (2020), Canada. She is currently completing a post-doctoral fellowship funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research at McMaster University's, CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research. Her research has focused on Program Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of innovative service delivery models (e.g., e-health) in Pediatric Rehabilitation, She uses Participatory approaches and Patient, Family, and Public Engagement methods, Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods designs to study complex Interventions.

Reflections on developing collaborative research projects’ by Dr David Raper from the University of Winchester

Professor Michael Boniface, Professorial Fellow in Information Technology, Electronics & Computer Science at the University of Southampton presents: • Dan Burns, Senior Research Engineer at the University of Southampton - PROCED: PROactive, Collaborative and Efficient complex Discharge • Zlatko Zlatev, Senior Research Engineer at the University of Southampton - Cluster-AIM: The development and evaluation of population clusters for integrated health and social care

Beyond the interview: considering creative methods in social care research by Dr. Annabel Tremlett