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• News: ICA HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme for non-medical healthcare professions; UKPHR Practitioners; 2017 NIHR Theme: Older People with Complex Health Needs.
• Events: Can Social Care Save the NHS?; Is the NHS financially sustainable?

News 

ICA HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme for non-medical healthcare professions

Round 3 of the HEE/NIHR ICA programme (CDRF, CL and SCL) for non-medical healthcare professions has launched.

The Health Education England (HEE) and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Integrated Clinical Academic (ICA) Programme provides personal research training awards for healthcare professionals (excluding doctors and dentists) who wish to develop careers that combine clinical research and research leadership with continued clinical practice and clinical development.

More information can be found on our website.

UKPHR Practitioners

Public Health Practitioners in the East of England are invited to apply to join Cohort 6 of the UKPHR Practitioner Registration Scheme.

Over a period of 9 months, practitioners will develop a portfolio to demonstrate their competencies against the UKPHR standards to become a registered UKPHR Public Health Practitioner. See attached leaflets below.

There are 12 spaces available and practitioners are eligible to apply if:
Applications close on Thursday 2nd March.

Please find more information on our website.

2017 NIHR Theme: Older People with Complex Health Needs

The 2017 NIHR theme is older people with complex health needs. This call will build on the 2015 NIHR Themed Call in multimorbidities.

In mid-2017, we anticipate announcing a highlight notice opening calls across all programmes in the area of older people with complex health needs. Researchers are encouraged to start planning potential applications.

For more information please see here.

Events

Can Social Care Save the NHS?

7 March 2017

London

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH AND POLICY 31^st Annual Health Services Research Lecture

Martin Knapp is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has also been Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research since 2009. His principal current research interests are dementia, child and adult mental health, autism and long-term social care. Much of his work has an economic focus with the aim of teasing out policy implications.

For more information on directions please click here.

Is the NHS financially sustainable?

10 March 2017

Cambridge

The NHS is in the middle of its most financially parsimonious decade in its history. While it continues to treat and care for increasing numbers of people every year, after five years of tight funding, (and despite a huge overspend last year) headline waiting times targets are being missed by increasing numbers of health care organisations. There’s no doubt the NHS currently faces a short term crisis. But what about the longer term? As the NHS approaches its 70th birthday, is this the beginning of the end for Britain’s best loved institution? Is the NHS financially sustainable, or do we have to start thinking of more radical ways to pay for health care?

For more information please click here.

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