Establishing user-led research in mental health in Hull and East Riding: How to initiate and commission research
2004
Shields Graham
Hull and East Riding Community Health Trust
This paper is part of an evaluation undertaken into the attempt by the Trust to set up a structure to promote and commission user-led research. I propose to start by providing an introduction to the sort of research which we are hoping to undertake and then show how we established a Panel of users and experts and how this led into initiating research. The main focus will be on our evolving structures and systems that included consideration of the use of an external academic to assess and score proposals and on how abstract considerations and concerns about politics, along with funding issues can get in the way of real research. Issues of interest for discussion will include to what extent the Trust should influence projects in terms of such things as asserting quality when this may conflict with users’ wishes.
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