Resources
To find resources for a specific theme, please click on the links below.
Older People
Over the past decade, research with and for care homes has increased, and the need for research to support long term care and policy is increasingly recognised. Research has the potential to inform and enhance the care and experiences of people living and working in care homes. However, there is a need to ensure staff, residents, their families and friends are supported when considering taking part in research. Our guide will help a care home team determine whether they are ‘ready’ to be involved in a research study. Open guidance here.


Mental and Physical Multimorbidity
A guide for health professionals
This summary presents some initial findings from the OWLS study on how people with severe mental ill health have been affected by the pandemic restrictions. This report will be updated periodically, and this is the first of the OWLS reports.


Urgent Care
- Podcast: ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 7 - Suzanne Ablard - Advanced Practitioner roles within the NHS. Listen via Spotify, Apple or Anchor (links below).
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/2UZ7p8U9eO2jlkOdIy9Bw8?si=rkoNRsSFQLidoFUUeRrjGw&nd=1
Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/scharrs-communicable-research-episode-7-suzanne-ablard/id1564527813?i=1000547008329
ARC Yorkshire and Humber's UEC Theme collaborated with the HDRUK Better Care Northern Partnership to produce the following animation.


Improvement Science
Designed and delivered by our Improvement Science theme, these short videos introduce practitioners, researchers and anyone else with an interest in improvement science to key methods and approaches in an accessible way. Topics include:
De-implementation of Low-value Care (click here for further reading and references document)
Logic Models: moving from the ideal to the 'real world' (click here for further reading and references document)
10 tips on evaluating changes to audit and feedback to improve care (click here for further reading and references document)
The Positive Deviance Approach (click here for further reading and references document)
Normalisation Theory Practice (NPT) in general (click here for further reading and references document)
Co-production of applied health and research (further reading and references document and snapshot narrative)
Implementation Outcome Instrument Repository (click here for further reading and references document)
Video Reflexive Ethnography for Healthcare Improvement (click here for further reading and references document)
A quick guide to effective audit and feedback (click the following links for the glossary term and reading and references document)
Behaviour change techniques: what are they and how do I use them? (click here for further reading and references document)
Realist methods for design and evaluation (click here for further reading and references document)
How to identify barriers to improving clinical practice (click here for further reading and references document)
Co-designing quality improvement interventions to optimise impact
The videos are uploaded to our YHARC YouTube channel (https://bit.ly/30kOip9) when they become available.
Other resources are available on the Improvement Academy website here: https://www.improvementacademy.org/resources/
Health Economics
Sebastian Hinde, Centre for Health Economics, University of York.
Produced by the ARC Health Economics, Evaluation and Equality (HEEE) cross-cutting theme.
Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) for users of mental health services
Produced by the ARC Health Economics, Evaluation and Equality (HEEE) cross-cutting theme.
Produced by the ARC Health Economics, Evaluation and Equality (HEEE) cross-cutting theme.
The PROMs resource aims to support the process of selecting and implementing Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in different contexts where PROM data is used for evaluation. The checklist found within the resource and also in the accompanying document, should be used from the early stages of any evaluation work to identify from the beginning, appropriate PROMs are selected, and that implementation is planned. (click icons on the side to download the PROMs resource and checklist)
This infographic uses an example which relates to a CLAHRC legacy research Project worked on by Laura and James Lomas from the University of York - ‘Costs and benefits associated with emissions: case study exploring the health impacts of West Yorkshire Low Emission Zone’.
At the ReQoL Community of Practice event in October 2019, participants expressed an interest in using ReQoL data visualisations to enhance meaningful clinical conversations. In response to this request, we have been working to develop and test a Recovering Quality of Life Questionnaire (ReQoL-10) online visualisation tool. We are pleased to announce that the tool is now available online at https://reqol-visualisation-tool.group.shef.ac.uk/
Economics is a discipline broadly concerned with how society allocates its limited resources among alternative uses, whereby Health Economics is mainly concerned with health and social care resources. As such, Health Economics is an important part of resource allocation decision-making when using taxpayers’ money to fund health and social care services. There are several tools Health Economists use to produce evidence which can aid and guide associated decision-making processes. As part of the NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) project – Unlocking Data to Inform Public Health Policy and Practice (aka. Unlocking Data project) – the researchers, with support from the YH ARC Co-Chair for the PPIE Leadership Group, have developed an online resource which explains how one of these tools, Economic Evaluation, can be used in a health setting. View the guide here: https://view.genial.ly/6278d90db5e8f9001152a57f






- Air pollution
A toolkit developed for use by local authorities to help provide an evidence base with this to analyse possible policies that improve air quality (click icons here to download package)



- How can economic evaluation inform decisions in health?
To view or download, click on 1st icon here >>>
- Health Inequalities Assessment Toolkit (HIAT)
Developed by North West Coast CLAHRC
To view or download, click on 2nd icon here >>>


Patient and Public Involvement / Engagement
Our lay contributor, Ruby Bhatti, spent time with this team and her experiences became part of the Talking Heads.
Covid and me is a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) public engagement initiative using theatre to raise public awareness of the importance that clinical trials will play during this pandemic. It is aimed to reach all people and specifically to resonate with parts of the community that don’t typically take part in research and are disproportionality affected with poorer outcomes if they contract COVID-19 – notably BAME, elderly, 50+ with co-morbidities & those from economically deprived areas.
This is a 'call to action' to all people and to aid the reach to those in our most underserved communities that the NHS needs them to ‘Be Part of Research’. Together we will gain understanding of the health inequalities of COVID-19 outcomes to improve health and well- being for all. Learn more about this and watch the videos here.
Alongside other involvement leads in the region, ARC Y&H have contributed to this guidance document - a collation of information and top tips on conducting involvement activities during Covid-19.

Implementation
National NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Resources
CLAHRC Legacy Publication - The legacy of the CLAHRCs 2014-19 - 5 years of NIHR-funded applied health research
This newly released publication brings together highlights from across the National Institute for Health Research Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (NIHR CLAHRCs), which became Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) in October 2019. It showcases achievements from five years of collaborative applied health and care research.
In the document, you will find case studies presented by priority theme, including children and young people, early detection and prevention, managing long term conditions and emergency care and acute illness.
