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9786dc43-811c-409a-95aa-666af8766d3d ADOPTED PROJECT: Developing and testing a Patient Report Experience Measure for patients accessing Acute OnCology services: The PREMAC study Principal Investigator : Dr Richard Wagland, Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton, School of Health Sciences Co-Investigators : Professor Alison Richardson, Professor of Cancer Nursing & End of Life Care and Director of NIHR ARC Wessex, University of Southampton & University Hospital Southampton John Defty, Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Cancer Care, University Hospital Southampton Dr Emma Brown, Medical Oncologist, Acute Oncology Lead. University Hospital Southampton Start date : January 2023 End Date: May 2024 Funder : University Hospitals Southampton (UHS) NHS Foundation Trust R&D Small Grants Award Summary People with cancer often need to access acute oncology services for serious problems caused by their disease or treatment. It is good practice for services to collect information about patients’ experiences of care to understand how they could be improved. The aim of the PREMAC study was to develop a questionnaire for patients who have used acute oncology services to feedback their experiences. The study progressed in three stages. First, a literature review to identify previous research that described elements of care important to people with cancer whilst experiencing a cancer emergency. This was followed by interviews with eight patients who had cancer and eight doctors and nurses from the acute oncology team at Southampton General Hospital to hear their thoughts about the most important elements of care. From these two activities we identified what the questionnaire should aim to measure. In the second stage, a group of patients who had a diagnosis of cancer and used acute oncology services helped the research team draft questions and response options. These questions were then tested with a further four people with cancer, to make sure the questions were easy to understand. Then we made some changes to the questionnaire. The final questionnaire had 37 questions about the quality of care and nine questions about a patients’ background and condition. Questions included aspects such as: quality of information and care they received; the quality of the care environment (whether it was clean and safe, and provided privacy; whether patients’ family and friends were supported and kept informed by staff; whether patients had long waits for care; and the ease of discharge. In the third stage, the questionnaire was sent to patients with cancer to complete one to two weeks after they had used the acute oncology service at Southampton General Hospital. Patients were sent a text to their mobile phone with a link to the questionnaire. 171 patients completed the questionnaire, the majority of whom were female (56.5%). Most participants rated their overall care experience positively, with 82.4% selecting “Very good” and 9.7% selecting “Good.” Only 4.2% of participants rated their care as “Poor” or “Very poor”. Responses to the questionnaire allowed us to test how well each of the questions worked both by themselves and in combination with others in the questionnaire. Responses provided the Trust with important information to help identify areas where care was very good and areas in need of improvement. The next study will test the questionnaire in other Trusts whose acute oncology services might be organised in different ways to the services at Southampton. Background Hospitals have established structured pathways for managing patients with oncological emergencies through acute oncology (AO) services. Whilst some Trusts have developed local questionnaires specific to that service there is no survey available to measure and compare patient experience across NHS trusts. This study will co-design a patient-reported experience measure (PREM), intended to be adaptable for use across different AO service models. Advisory Group Members : Andrew Dossett, Lead Clinical Advanced Clinical Practitioner for Acute Oncology Service, University Hospital Southampton Jane Winter, Macmillan Lead Nurse, Wessex Cancer Alliance Laura White, Head of Involvement & Participation, University Hospital Southampton Katie Hudson, Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner for Cancer Care Wards, University Hospital Southampton Mrs Susan Restorick-Banks (PPI Representative) Mrs Anne Ongley (PPI Representative) Alison Keen, Head of Cancer Nursing, University Hospital Southampton Philippa Jones, Acute Oncology Nurse Advisor, Board Member of UK Acute Oncology Society. Prof. Ernie Marshall, Medical Oncologist, Wirral University Teaching Hospital (Clatterbridge) NHS England national lead for Acute Oncology

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Fellowships and Internships 1) Bitesize webinar series on NIHR Personal Awards Advice and guidance for anyone working in public health, social care, local authorities and the voluntary sector who is thinking of applying for an NIHR Personal Award. Find out about the awards, what the application process entails and what support is available to you before you submit your application. There will also be a Q&A session with experts and existing award holders. 45min webinars will be on applying for: NIHR Personal Awards (overview) NIHR Predoctoral Award NIHR Doctoral Award NIHR Postdoctoral Award There will also be an additional webinar on how to write a narrative CV. Full details can be found on the NIHR RSS Specialist Centre for Public Health website . 2) UK-wide partnership with the Addictions Healthcare Goals programme We would like to share details of a new UK-wide partnership between the NIHR and Office for Life Sciences (OLS) Addiction Healthcare Goals programme to support individuals from across the UK develop the skills to deliver innovative drug and alcohol addiction research. Through this exciting new partnership, individuals can apply to upcoming career development opportunities at pre-doctoral, doctoral and post-doctoral levels; including the following awards: NIHR Pre-application Support Fund - Cohort 7 now open NIHR Doctoral Award - Cohort 2 now open NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement (DSE) Award (postdoctoral level award) - due to open in December 2025 NIHR Predoctoral Award - due to open in January 2026 We encourage applications from a broad range of groups, disciplines, professions, and sectors. Visit our website for further details about the recent announcement: New research partnership to tackle drug and alcohol addiction . Join our webinar on 10 November with Dr Beth Harris, NIHR Assistant Director for Academy Programmes to learn more. We're here to help you grow

bd368e62-bd41-4d7a-a7ea-673ea3582964 ADOPTED PROJECT: High Harm Domestic Violence Perpetrator Pilot Evaluation Chief Investigator: Dr Sara Morgan – University of Southampton Project Team Members: Mrs Katerina Porter – University of Southampton, Mrs Fiona Maxwell – University of Southampton, Professor Julie Parkes – University of Southampton Organisations Involved: Hampshire County Council, Hampshire Constabulary, Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, Hampshire, The Home Office, Hampton Trust Background data Domestic violence & abuse remains a pressing public health concern In the UK, 18% of adults aged 16+ have experienced domestic abuse from an intimate partner 1 In Southampton, domestic abuse accounts for 33% of violent crime Methods Analysis of routinely-collected anonymised quantitative data on all individuals meeting the Operation’s inclusion criteria (n=321) Interviews with key professionals (n=12) 11,751 individuals identified as perpetrators of domestic abuse in 2 policing districts over 14 months 131 individuals included in the Operation Foundation cohort, for allocation to High-Harm Teams, who attempt to engage perpetrators into a specialist behaviour change programme, ADAPT Results Operation Foundation identifies the domestic abuse perpetrators who pose the highest risk of the highest harm to their victims, and most require Police attention 10% of the Operation Foundation cohort were referred to ADAPT 2% of the cohort completed the ADAPT programme over 24 weeks High-Harm Team officers used new working practices to attempt to engage perpetrators and provide support to make healthy behaviour changes Where perpetrators were unwilling or unable to engage with the behaviour change intervention, High-Harm Team officers relentlessly pursued those perpetrators to disrupt their potential to pose a risk to their victims Qualitative data from High-Harm Team officers suggests that the Operation Foundation method had had positive and worthwhile effects regarding reoffending rates and reduction in risk to victims Further research is needed to determine the effectiveness of the Operation Foundation method CONTACT: k.a.porter@soton.ac.uk s.a.morgan@soton.ac.uk REFERENCES: 1. Robinson, A. L. and Clancy, A. (2017). New initiatives to tackle domestic violence using the Priority Perpetrator Identification Tool (PPIT). Cardiff: Cardiff University. 2. Crime Survey for England & Wales, 2022 3. Southampton Data Observatory, 2022 4. ADAPT programme, run by Hampton Trust

00ac00f7-6a45-413d-9354-92f1eb973632 COMPLETED: Testing the effects of food product placement on customers’ visual attention and intended product purchases: a randomised trial in a virtual supermarket setting (Phase II) Principal Investigators: Janis Baird and Christina Vogel, Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology and Principal Research Fellow in Public Health Nutrition respectively, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton Team: Dr Sarah Muir, Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton Dr Sarah Crozier, Senior Statistician, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton Dr Hayward Godwin, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Southampton Professor Marcus Munafo and Dr Olivia Maynard, Bristol University Ravita Taheem, Southampton City Council, Sure Start Children’s Centres Started: 1st March 2022 Ends: 30th September 2024 Background Poor diet is linked to an increased risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Most adults in England consume too much salt, saturated fat and free sugar, and do not eat the recommended five daily portions of fruit and vegetables. People with lower education and income levels are more likely to have poor diet and to experience health problems as a result. Women of childbearing age are primarily responsible for domestic food tasks such as shopping and cooking, and their diets are closely linked to those of their children. Most families buy their food from supermarkets and their food choices can be influenced by placement of items in-store and by promotions. Our research This project follows on from COMPLETED: Testing the effects of food product placement on customers’ visual attention and intended product purchases: a randomised trial in a virtual supermarket setting (Phase I) We want to find out how the placement and packaging of healthy and unhealthy foods influence the foods that women choose to buy. We will do this by creating a ‘virtual’ supermarket layout that participants will interact with on a computer screen. We will recruit women attending Sure Start Children’s Centres in Hampshire and those whose children attend early years settings. Hampshire is a county within the Wessex region with some relatively deprived areas. We will choose centres and early years settings located in areas of higher deprivation. Local data suggests that 70% of families with young children are engaged with the centres. Women using the virtual supermarket will be shown images of healthy and unhealthy foods and non-food items that are placed in noticeable locations in the supermarket like checkouts. We will measure the specific aspects of the images women look at using experimental techniques such as eye tracking, which records their gaze point and gaze duration. The eye tracker is positioned close to the computer screen allowing it to record where women look. We will then ask women to tell us the products that they saw for sale, the name of the products they considered purchasing, and aspects of the supermarket that took their interest, and why. Our findings will tell us how people respond to the placement and packaging of different types of food products and whether these reponses differ if families are poorer or more wealthy. These findings help us to design ways to layout supermarkets to help all families eat more healthy foods. Our research will begin in March 2022 and end in late 2022. We will share the findings from our study with local families attending Sure Start Children’s Centres and early years settings. We will inform local and national government employees about our findings which could help to refine current government policies to address childhood obesity. The Study • 68 mothers took part in an eye-tracking study at the University of Southampton. •The women viewed scenes from a virtual supermarket which showed healthy, unhealthy and non-food products. •Scenes focused on the areas in a store where most shoppers usually pass through including the store entrance, end-of-aisles and checkouts. •Eye tracking software captured their eye movements to measure their attention. Participants were also asked to click on items on the screen that they wanted to purchase. •Twelve women also took part in interviews. mothers took part in an eye-tracking study at the University of Southampton. What did we learn? •We compared women’s attention to healthy, unhealthy and non-food items by showing them images of products side by side. Women showed higher levels of attention to healthy products over unhealthy and non-food items. Healthy products were viewed for 0.10 more seconds than unhealthy products and 0.15 more seconds than non-food items. The eye-tracking study also showed that the women had higher intention to purchase healthy foods over unhealthy and non-food items. Interviews with the women showed they used strategies like shopping lists and avoiding aisle ends to avoid unhealthy purchases. They wanted more healthy snacks or products they might have forgotten (such as paracetamol or batteries) at checkouts. What difference can this new Knowledge make? Supermarkets usually place unhealthy foods in noticeable places to make profits. Replacing these unhealthy foods with healthy or non-food items will just as likely, if not more successfully, lead to purchases. This can help families lead healthier lives. Why is this important for patients, health and care providers and policy makers? Placing unhealthy foods in noticeable locations can lead to impulse purchases of foods that can lead to obesity. Our study shows that women do not intend to buy these foods and would prefer healthier alternatives. Since 2022, UK policy has banned the placement of some unhealthy foods at noticeable locations in supermarkets. This research provides evidence that customers are likely to support this policy as they would like to buy healthy and non-food items from these locations. What Next? We are creating an infographic to share our findings with families via Sure Start Children’s Centres, Facebook and local schools. These results support our ongoing evaluation of the Food (Promotion and Placement) Regulations. Data will be shared in ongoing conversations with local authorities and via an academic publication. We have received funding to expand our study from mothers to young people. Adolescence is a time when young people may start to make independent food purchases. We aim to further understand what environmental factors influence young people’s purchases on their journey to and from school.

Talia Emmanuel is a PhD candidate in the Health Workforce & Systems research group at the University of Southampton. < Back What do nurses want? Improving nurses’ shift patterns - where do we start? Talia Emmanuel is a PhD candidate in the Health Workforce & Systems research group at the University of Southampton. Talia Emmanuel is a PhD candidate in the Health Workforce & Systems research group at the University of Southampton. In this blog, she summarises some key results from her recent research paper that explored nurses’ views and values around their shift patterns and working time. Talia Emmanuel -University of Southampton. As a PhD student, one must be well-prepared to answer the question…“What is your research about?”. I typically answer with “I’m trying to find ways of improving shift patterns for nurses when they’re working in hospital”. Enthusiastic nods usually follow, along with a quippy reply: “Wow, that sounds important and complicated ”. Although simply put, “important and complicated” neatly summarises the nuances of this topic. We recognise the significance of improving nurses’ working conditions in the context of persistent health workforce shortages, both nationally and internationally. However, we also realise that singular cure-all solutions are non-existent – there are too many factors at play. So, where do we start? Some of those complicating factors centre around how nurses’ working hours are organised. In hospitals, nurses often have to work in shifts that cover different periods of the 24-hour day. Previous research has identified various repercussions of working shifts (and in particular, working long shifts of 12-hours or more and night shifts): increased burnout , poor work-life balance , and risk of chronic illness and cancer on the long-term. Impacts to nurses’ performance and safety while at work have also been flagged, which pose knock-on effects on the quality of care patients ultimately receive. Despite these risks, shift work is a necessary reality for many nurses working in hospitals. Therefore, administrators and managers are tasked with organising nurses’ shifts into rotas that balance staff wellbeing with service demands and operational costs - and this is no easy feat. Further complications come from recent increased pressure on NHS employers to offer staff more say over their working patterns as a way of improving job satisfaction and their experiences of work. But this raises the question: What do nurses want? More specifically, what shift patterns do they prefer, and why? While there is some existing literature on this (an excellent summary can be found here ), our understanding of the factors that lead nurses to prefer certain shift patterns needs more work. As part of my doctoral research, I was eager to do a deep-dive into this area: I know that in order to find ways to improve nurses’ shift patterns, it is crucial to ask nurses themselves about their views and values around the organisation of their working hours. Fortunately, I had access to a rich data source around this topic: a recent survey study funded by the NIHR ARC Wessex that collected responses from nurses working across the UK and Ireland. My supervisors and I were particularly interested in nurses’ responses when asked: “ If you could choose your shift patterns, what would be the most important factor in that choice?” While we expected nurses to describe many diverse factors/preferences, we were hopeful of commonalities too. Nearly 800 nurses provided their open-ended responses to this question. We analysed all of them and developed 3 overarching themes: Theme 1, “When I want to work ”: Nurses shared many preferences for when they wanted to work, and equally, how they wanted their rest days to be arranged. Even though individual preferences differed, three general scheduling practices were also repeatedly mentioned as helpful: working less ‘harmful’ shift patterns from the start, working more consistent/predictable patterns, and having more flexibility and control over when to work. “Not working consecutive shifts so that I am exhausted by the time I get a day off.” “Know what I am doing each week, either set days or set nights, so I can predict what I am working…” “Having the freedom to give myself more days to recover between weekly shifts.” Theme 2, “Impacts to my life outside work” : Many factors emerged from nurses wanting shift patterns that enable a good work-life balance and minimise disruption to their lives outside work. Their preferences and priorities related to wanting quality recreational time with family and friends, to be able to arrange childcare easily and inexpensively, and having enough rest/recovery time to protect their own wellbeing. “Quality time with my children and family without being permanently drained, exhausted, and sad” “That the pattern could stay the same each week so it would be easier for childcare needs. Many nurseries like set days and when our rota is changing from week to week this can be difficult.” “…Not mixing days and nights in a week […] this does not observe HSE best practice guidelines and messes with the body clock and sleep patterns. It should not be allowed to happen.” Theme 3, “Improving my work environment” : Some nurses mentioned job-specific factors that influenced their choices, like wanting to work the shift patterns they believed to be best for patient care, or, working the best configuration of shifts for optimal take-home pay. But other concepts, like having sufficient staffing numbers and being able to take breaks, were also stressed. “A shift where I feel I have accomplished the care I have wanted to give for my patients” “To not have so much pressure on the shift, with the right amount of staff on and to take my break when needed”. When thinking back to the question “What shift patterns do nurses prefer, and why?”, these themes provide several helpful clues. They also highlight that while there is variation in nurses’ specific shift preferences, there are also more general scheduling practices that also support their priorities. For my research, this finding is particularly striking, as it moves away from the oft-assumption that there are “countless individual preferences that are difficult to accommodate” and toward the idea that there are more universal preferences too. Moreover, when these universal preferences are used during the scheduling process, nurses’ shift patterns can be improved overall. That sounds like a good starting point! Read our full analysis of nurses’ survey responses in the open-access research paper here Follow Talia: Twitter/X | ResearchGate Follow the UoS Health Workforce & Systems team: Twitter/X | UoS website Previous Next

8f830c4b-12f3-482a-9f50-095a9cd14973 ADOPTED: Gambling in the UK: An analysis of data from individuals seeking treatment at the NHS Southern Gambling Service Principal Investigator: Professor Sam Chamberlain, Professor of Psychiatry at University of Soutampton & Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. Co-investigators: Professor David Baldwin, University of Southampton, Professor Jon Grant , University of Chicago, Dr Konstantinos Ioannidis, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Dr Mat King, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. Partners : University of Southampton & Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust Summary Gambling disorder is a growing problem amongst adult gamblers. Although previous research has identified some of the harms associated with gambling, few studies have documented how these harms in a large, UK clinical sample. Moreover, It is critical to investigate the socioeconomic determinants of gambling disorder via geospatial analyses, bringing together clinical and socio-economic parameters, to identify areas of need and inform the strategic development of the regional service as well as influence policy making more widely. Furthermore, little is known regarding the evolution of factors that predict treatment success dropout or relapse and how individual vulnerabilities interact with environmental risk. This research aims to fill this gap, by analysing a large existing dataset of treatment seeking gamblers. The service has a purpose to provide clinical excellence, while adopting innovative methods (digital pre-assessment, digital monitoring, virtual individual and group therapies etc.) in the clinical setting and to spearhead cutting-edge research which will inform and enhance clinical practice locally, nationally, and globally. The long-term goal of the service is to establish a world-renowned centre that minimises gambling harms through comprehensive evidence-based treatments, research, outreach, and prevention (including early interventions). The clinical focus of the Southern Gambling Service (SGS) is on minimising gambling harms, which involves treating disordered gambling using evidence-based approaches, as well as providing support aimed to promote or replenish recovery capital in individuals (e.g. detecting comorbidities and signposting individuals to other sources of support, enhance social connectedness, promote liaison with sources of financial, social and wellbeing support, setting out the scaffolding of follow up arrangements).

Health Inequality The aim of this National Priority Consortium in Health and Care Inequalities is to work across all Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs), the Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) and with national stakeholders to support the health and care system nationally and across our regions, to reduce health care inequalities. The programme is led by the NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria and the NIHR ARC Yorkshire and Humber, and involves all 15 ARCs from across the country Who is participating? The cross-sector implementation of NICE-recommended CBT-based interventions for young people in care: Framework development and pilot of trauma-focused CBT. (Involving ARC West, ARC East of England, ARC North East and North Cumbria, ARC Wessex, ARC Yorkshire and Humber, and co-funded with the Child Health and Maternity Consortium

80c8b1b5-2419-49ee-b01f-71cd4ac37e9f ARC Wessex programme of research on Medicines Optimisation (MODIFY SPiDeR STOP-DEM) For further information please see the links below MODIFY : The development and iMplementation Of a multidisciplinary medication review and Deprescribing Intervention among Frail older people in primarY care SPiDeR Social Prescribers In Deprescribing Role STOP-DEM : Development of a structured deprescribing intervention for people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment in primary care

National Festival of Applied Dementia Research During Dementia Action week | 19 - 25 May 2025 we are celebrating the work of applied dementia researchers from across England. Find and event near you. Browse our DEMFEST Events Download all the events in this printable brochure > Dementia Research Festival events from around England Filter by Region Select Region Join in the conversation online - just look out for the #DEMFEST tag for pictures and news on our events SUPPORT THAT MATTERS: PREVIEW a Dementia Art & Research Exhibition May 8, 2025 5.30-7.30pm (opening night) Skyway Gallery, 2 Pond Road, Shoreham-by-sea BN43 5WU Exhibition: 9 – 15 May 2025 10am – 4pm - Wheelchair accessible Do you want to help improve care and support for people with memory problems and dementia – but don’t know where to start? May 17, 2025 1.00pm-2.00pm New Art Exchange, 39 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 6BE Also runs Tuesday 20th May 1.00pm-2.00pm - Just drop in Dementia Community Research Network (DCRN) Public Conference May 19, 2025 2.00pm-4.30pm Stanstead Lodge 260 Stanstead Road SE23 1DD https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dementia-community-research-conference-tickets-1255488202009 Dementia Care Research: What’s that all about then? May 19, 2025 Runs from 19-25 May Online Find out more: https://arc-swp.nihr.ac.uk/news/ Day 1 of our Mental Stimulation & Social Engagement event (Afternoon Tea) May 19, 2025 2.00-4.30pm Fulham Pier at Fulham Football Stadium, Stevenage Road, London SW6 6HH p.nair@imperial.ac.uk Day 2 of our Mental Stimulation & Social Engagement event (Virtual Reality) May 20, 2025 10:30am to 1:00pm Danehust Centre, Brentford TW8 8HX p.nair@imperial.ac.uk SUPPORT THAT MATTERS: a Dementia Art & Research Exhibition May 20, 2025 5.00pm-8.00pm (opening night) Creative Space Art Gallery, 1 Red Lion Lane, Whitstable CT5 1FG Runs 21 – 26 May 2025 10.00am - 6.00pm Drop in, no booking needed Dementia Action Week – Dementia Research and Me May 20, 2025 12.00-4.00pm The Royal Hotel, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1JP Contact: katie.breheny@bristol.ac.uk Link: https://arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/events/dementia-action-week-dementia-research-and-me/ What is happening in dementia research in the West Midlands? May 20, 2025 12.45pm-4.00pm Stoke-on-Trent Film Theatre, Wade Centre, Hartshill Road. ST4 7NY Link: https://www.arc-wm.nihr.ac.uk/news-events/ Day 3 of our Physical Activity & Social Engagement event (Yoga) May 21, 2025 10:30- 1:00pm London Care, 42 Westbourne Park Road, W2 5PH p.nair@imperial.ac.uk Workshop | How do we foster dementia-friendly communities? May 21, 2025 10:00-12:00pm Stevenage Arts & Leisure Centre, Lytton Way, Stevenage SG1 1LZ Contact: g.windle@herts.ac.uk for venue details. Dementia research in the North East – how can it help me? May 21, 2025 11.30am-1.00pm Newcastle United Foundation, Diana Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 68Q To book this event contact marie.poole@newcastle.ac.uk Chai and Chat: South Asian Dementia Cafe May 22, 2025 1pm-3pm Mary Sunley House, Banstead Street West, Leeds, LS8 5RU Contact: A.Akhtar46@bradford.ac.uk Dementia Knowledge Exchange Event in the South Asian Community May 22, 2025 12.00-1.00pm TBC Manchester Liverpool Contact: sarah.smith-10@manchester.ac.uk Seeing Dementia Differently: A Journey Through Research & Lived Experience May 22, 2025 2.00pm-5.00pm St Pancras & Somers Town Living Centre, 2 Ossulston Street, London NW1 1DF Contact on the day: Jess Wright (jess.wright@ucl.ac.uk) Dementia Tea Dance: Connecting Communities, Sharing Knowledge May 22, 2025 1.00pm-3.00pm The Old School House (TOSH) Gladstone Mews, Bournemouth. BH7 6BG Call Pippa 07780 004101 Day 4 of our Healthy Diet event May 22, 2025 10:30am to 1:00pm Loveday Kensington, 2 Kensington Square, London W8 5EP p.nair@imperial.ac.uk Let’s Talk: 3D May 23, 2025 10-12pm Cloth Hall Court, Quebec Street Leeds LS1 2HA http://s.raman@leeds.ac.uk Life in Embrace – Navigating the realities of dementia in the UK and India May 23, 2025 2.00pm - 4.00pm Reading Biscuit Factory Unit 1A, Queen’s Walk (Corner of Oxford Road), Reading RG1 7QE https://www.readingbiscuitfactory.co.uk/ Day 5 of our Community Health Checks May 23, 2025 1:00- 4:00pm Kensington Town Hall, Hornton St, London W8 7NX p.nair@imperial.ac.uk SUPPORT THAT MATTERS +: a VIRTUAL Dementia Art & Research Exhibition May 23, 2025 12.00-1.00pm Online http://Register: https://tinyurl.com/supportthatmatters Brain Health & Dementia Prevention in the Black African Community May 25, 2025 5pm-8pm Blackburn Hall, Commercial Street Rothwell, Leeds. LS26 0AW Contact: e.s.nwofe@bradford.ac.uk

98ea6e39-72b8-439c-baa8-0843050c271b ADOPTED: SPLENDID Social Prescribing for people to Live ENjoyably with Dementia/memory problems In Daily life Research lead: Professor George Christopher Fox, University of East Anglia ARC Wessex team: Dr Euan Sadler, University of Southampton, Dr Katherine Bradbury, University of Southampton. Partner organisations: NHS Norfolk and Waveney CCG, University of Hull, University of Nottingham, University of Exeter, King's College London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Meaningful Measures Ltd. Start: 01/05/2022 End: 30/04/2027 What is the problem? Nearly one million people in the UK will be living with the affects of dementia by 2030 including poor well-being and quality of life. Social prescribing is a prescription of activities for a person to use to link with others and undertake something they might enjoy, this could be a walking or singing group, flower arranging class, visit to a museum or putting them in touch with other people to help them feel better. People meet with staff called Link- Workers, who have a conversation with them to help them think about what they enjoy and might help. The Link Worker might then introduce them to a group or activity or support them to find information to make links. Family members can be involved too. Research shows social prescribing has better effects than just taking medicine and is happening more often. This study (called SPLENDID) aims to understand how we ensure social prescribing is useful and helpful to people with dementia. What we will do SPLENDID researchers will talk with people with dementia, family carers and staff working in social prescribing to understand what people want, what works well and what could be improved. We will use this to design, with people with dementia, what looks like the best way for social prescribing with people with dementia. We will create some tools (online and face-to-face) to help workers and people with dementia talk and think together about what might help them. We will test it with a small group of people to see if it helps and look at what training Link- Workers need to offer the best support for people with dementia and their families. We then decide if this should be taken forward and tested in a larger study to see if it improves peoples’ well-being and is value for money. Working with patients and carers Our team met 8 people with dementia and 8 family carers to design this study. We have 2 co-researchers (Mr Rook and Mrs Bingham) who are living with dementia. 150 people with dementia were surveyed to see what social prescribing is currently being offered and found people were doing a range of outdoor and indoor activities, some with family which they enjoyed and found helpful. People with dementia and carers will be on our Committees, and several dementia charities support this work. Dissemination Our website will offer free resources put together with people with dementia and carers. Our findings will be shared locally and nationally using links we have with universities, clinical experts, press, social media, workshops with people who commission and provide. NIHR ARC East of England study site Publications Social prescribing for people living with dementia (PLWD) and their carers: what works, for whom, under what circumstances and why – protocol for a complex intervention systematic review | BMJ Open

ARC Wessex Faculty Membership Wessex is home to some of this England’s most successful research organisations and the Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) hosts some of the most experienced and talented applied health researchers available. Many of them have international reputations in their chosen field. One of the ARCs key objectives is to increase applied research capacity in health and care organisations. The establishment of ARC Wessex Faculty provides an opportunity for research expertise and skills to be shared from right across the entire region. Becoming an ARC Wessex Faculty member brings substantial benefits. Members, whatever stage their career has reached, will be able to access a wide range of resources aimed at enhancing the quality, reach and impact of their research and evidence translation activities. What is ARC Wessex Faculty Membership? As a member of the Faculty you are there to support, encourage and be involved in our programme of research. You can become involved in our research projects, support and mentor researchers and use your skills to help in the growth and success of ARC Wessex. Normally you would be working with or in one of our partner organisations including an NHS or local authority (public health and social care), or at one of our partner Universities (Portsmouth, Southampton, Winchester and Bournemouth). You should also have an interest or connection to one of our four research areas (ageing & dementia, healthy communities, long term conditions and workforce and health systems) If you would like to support us as a member of the public, patient or carer then see our Get Involved pages Why become a Faculty Member? As a member of ARC Wessex Faculty, you have access to a wide range of opportunities and resources available through ARC Wessex. Support will be determined on a case-by-case basis and subject to available internal capacity and funding, and alignment with our strategy. Our skills and resources could include: Affiliation with ARC Wessex projects, for example as a member of a project team, steering group or interested stakeholder, supporting the dissemination, adoption and spread of research findings Support to disseminate and promote your research outputs. This may be in conjunction with the Wessex Academic Health Science Network (https://wessexahs n.org.uk/ ) Access to our training, learning and development events and activities Opportunity to apply for ARC Wessex applied health research funding Contribute to peer review of ARC Wessex research protocols Opportunity to be linked to relevant programmes of work hosted by other ARCs Advance notice of both ARC Wessex and the 14 other ARCs events and activities, in particular those related to funding and training opportunities Opportunity to contribute to activities designed to build capacity and capability in our health and care research workforce across Wessex Opportunity to contribute to stakeholder events, influencing the future direction of our research and implementation programme What you can cont ribute Be an enthusiastic ambassador for ARC Wessex Where appropriate, support other ARC Faculty members' work Provide knowledge, advice or opportunities for ARC trainees Implementation Support for ARC projects Your knowledge and experience Apply to become a Member To apply, download the form here (all applications must be accompanied by a short CV). You will receive no tification of the outcome of your application within 10 working days. Email the form and your CV to us here once complete.