Clinical Academic Research Careers for NMAHPs in Lothian

1. Clinical Academic Research Careers for NMAHPs in Lothian Janet Hanley R&D Manager NHS Lothian

2. Why? Universities • 2001 RAE- NMAHP subject groups did badly • Compared with other subjects NMAHP departments had high teaching loads, little time for research and few senior academic posts NHS • 1980sonwards committed to evidenced based care • From late 1990s onwards increasingly organised in approach to clinical research • Became obvious that research activity/ output very unbalanced with little research activity/ evidence to support some aspects of clinical care (NMAHPs, primary care, health service delivery)

3. Why clinical/ academic careers?Why does the NHS not just commission clinical research from Universities? • Clinical research agenda is largely developed from the bottom up • Effective clinical research studies bring together • good science • creative thinking • Knowledge of how things work in a clinical context • the ability to be enterprising within a large organisation • The evidence is that this is easier to achieve when there are some individuals working across clinical academic boundaries over sustained periods • More interesting jobs

4. What has been happening? • 1994 – The CSO Nursing Research Initiative (now NMAHP research unit) • 2002 – Choices and Challenges • 2004 – AHP Research and Development Action Plan • 2004 - The Research Training Scheme 6 post-docs and 6 PhD students • 2004 – NMAHP Research Consortia • 2004 – UKRC – Walport Report – Research Career Pathways for doctors and dentists in training • 2007 – SCREDS – Research Career Pathways for medical staff • 2007 – UKCRC – Finch report - recommends Nursing Research Career Pathways – funded in England • 2008 – The Advanced Practice Tookit (SGHD) • 2008 – RAE Results • 2008/9 – Lothian CARC drafted and shared with NES • 2009 – NMAHP Leaders Day focussing on NMAHP Research and Development • 2009 – NMAHP Clinical Academic Career Pathway Consultation Events • May 2010 Lothian CARC launched • October 2010 National NMAHP clinical academic career framework

5. Lothian CARC scheme • Informal collaboration to draft proposal for implementation of the Finch report recommendations in Lothian. Working group led by James Law and Andy Peters • Approached NES with draft in October 2008 • NHS Lothian R&D agreed 50% funding in 2009 • NES and the 3 university partners agreed remaining funding • Scheme formally adopted by NHS Lothian in 2010 and launched in May

6. Career Framework for Health More Senior Staff – level 9 Consultant Practitioner – level 8 Advanced Practitioner – level 7 Senior Practitioner – level 6 Practitioner – level 5 Assistant Practitioner – level 4 Senior Healthcare Support Worker – level 3 Healthcare Support Worker - level 2 Support Worker – level 1

7. Lothian CARC Features • Four levels relating to career framework for health • Masters (level 5) • PhD student (level 6) • Post doctoral (level 7) • Advanced (levels 8 & 9) • Only levels 6 & 7 included within current funding as time limited training posts • Embedded within the clinical services and academic departments, who must work in partnership • Some funding for independent evaluation

8. Demonstration sites • 3 demonstration sites • Partnership between a clinical area, a partner academic department and potentially others • Each demonstration site will get funding for • one senior practitioner (PhD student – 5 years) • one advanced practitioner (post doctoral – 3 years in first instance) • Both will be 50% academic, 50% clinical • Funding 50% clinical service, 50% CARC scheme • NHS contracts and appropriate academic status within partner institutions

9. Progress • 1 demonstration site appointed (ICU/ U of E) • Second call for applications closes tomorrow • Issues/ opportunities • Some interesting partnerships developing – some at too early a stage for this call • Some clinical research interests are not within the priorities of any of the partner academic departments and vice versa • The NHS Lothian recruitment freeze has limited the pool of candidates to existing NHS Lothian staff at the present time, so the potential for the scheme to attract in talent cannot be explored.

10. Challenges • Pressure for these 3 demonstration sites to be successful • REF • Nurturing other partnerships • Financial climate • NHS support funding vs FEC • Sustainability – although there is a national framework there will not be a national scheme • How do we develop posts for career development? (levels 8&9/ permanent posts?)

11. Thank you • Additional slides for discussion if required • NIHR multi-professional career pathway • Draft Scottish NMAHP career pathway • Steering group

12. Steering Group • Andy Peters • Juliet MacArthur • Janet Hanley • Pam Smith • Shona Cameron • Catriona Kennedy The programme is managed through the Edinburgh Health Services Research Unit www.HSRU.ed.ac.uk

13. NIHR Research Career Pathways Doctors and Dentists NIHR Integrated Academic Training All Professions NIHR Fellowships Nurses, Midwives, Allied Health Professionals Clinical Academic Training Other Awards Level of Award NIHR Senior Research Fellowship NIHR/CNO/HEFCE Senior Academic Clinical Lecturer Senior/ Pre-Chair -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NIHR Clinician Scientist Award NIHR Career Development Fellowship NIHR/CNO Clinical Lectureships Senior Post-Doc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CSO Health Care Scientist PostDoctoral Fellowship NIHR Clinical Lectureship NIHR Post-Doctoral Fellowship Early Post-Doc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CSO Health Care Scientist Doctoral Fellowship NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship NIHR/CNO Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowships Doctoral ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Masters Health Economics, Masters in Med. Statistics. In-Practice Fellowships and NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowships NIHR/CNO Masters in Clinical Research Pre-Doctoral/ Masters -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Undergraduate