The primary care & research fields are always changing so learning how to best support practices evolves. What would you add? 🧐

You can find out more about getting involved here 🤝:

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- Research timelines can be difficult to predict so flexibility is needed for busy practices who may receive multiple requests from different studies at the same time Patience & support is needed in communication where possible (excepting serious event reporting of course). 👍

- Clear information on accrual allocations and who is adding these to the system. 🧮

Finally, my own pleas to make involvement easier:

- Include a simple guide to what monies will be paid, by who (research costs vs support costs), & when - particularly if the practice needs to raise the invoice or will be prompted by the team - and please do prompt! 💸

8. Communications in easy to understand language- yes please! Contracts are complicated so summaries with key points are very helpful. Flow charts with involvement of practice & participants, highlighting any differences to the standard NIHR contracts to make reviewing efficient.

7. Funded research admin roles - so much of research is administrative. The NIHR Research Delivery Network provides cluster funding that can support this so reach out to your nearest team 👋

6. Ask about research in appraisals - there’s good evidence that research active practices are associated with higher quality care generally. *Encouraging* involvement can help raise awareness to new opportunities & increase job satisfaction 🙂

5. Please feed back findings of your research to the practices AND participants in an easy read format, and send links to main findings publications for further info. Practices like to know how they’ve shaped future care & it’s great to include in appraisals & CQC evidence. Negative findings too! 🙏

4. Reassurance regarding thorough ethical review & data protection - practices have lots of concerns but we have rigorous checks on conducting research. Make it clear who has oversight & where concerns can be raised if needed. 🥸

3. Communicate the patient benefit- preferably beyond the standard ‘helping others in the future’ which is noble but what potential direct benefit will my patients have? 🤔

2. Co-production with primary care colleagues - essential and recognise every practice set up is different so flexibility in processes is key to maximising involvement. 🙂‍↕️

1. Piloting timings - yes! In different types & sizes of practices & with those confident & less experienced in research- it take me much less time to complete research tasks than someone who has not done it before. 😥

Fantastic work by Dr Su Wood and Dr Owen Thomas , supported by Dr Liz Glidewell, Prof Theo Raynor & myself, undertaken at @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Our toolkit 🧰 contains resources for hospitals, healthcare professionals and patients to support implementation and is available to all - please share!

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🧑‍⚕️However, we found that primary care prescribers also need systematized creatinine clearance calculation in electronic health records for easy coding to further improve patient safety & reduce harms from medicines in older age 🩺

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Pleased with my time - managed to knock 30 minutes off my practice run 😀. Rather tired and sore now 😅 - might allow myself a rest tomorrow 🤣

The @arc-yharc.bsky.social YouTube channel has lots of fantastic short videos to explore on a wide range of improvement science topics to explore 📺🩺📈