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Read the November roundup of top stories, blogs & opportunities from all NIHR Applied Research Collaborations ( #NIHRARCs) across the country

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The NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) November 2025 newsletter
The national newsletter from across all the NIHR ARCs. In this edition: Comprehensive new guidance for care planning, resources to improve admissions to mental health units for young people and their ...
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Since their inception 6 years ago, ARCs have:

🔎 carried out over 3,300 research projects
📰 published over 9,000 papers
🤝 collaborated with 627 partner organisations
💰 leveraged about £1 billion in external funding!

👉🏿 Explore a selection of our work:
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💫 #ARCimpacts
October 31, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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In this month’s ARC national newsletter.

👩‍⚕️ Katie Merry’s ARC NWC internship explores ways to reduce cervical screening inequalities among South Asian women.

🗣️ ARC NWC Public Advisor Naheed Tahir shares how co-chairing the Seldom Heard Forum is strengthening community voices.
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Register for our webinar on Tue 18 Nov, 11am-12pm, where we will be discussing inclusive practices around consent and mental capacity in palliative care research.

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November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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A two-year project will evaluate how implementing Advance Choice Documents in an NHS mental health setting can support service users to plan ahead and have more say in their care.

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November 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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🔍 High-quality data is essential for guiding effective prevention strategies.

🖊️ In our latest blog, ARC East of England researchers Jonathan Goodman and Joanna Reid explore the challenges of incomplete datasets and ways to improve data quality.

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November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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PenARC is proud to be part of #RPySoc2025! 🎉

🗓️ Thu 13 Nov: Dr Dan Chalk – “Total Eclipse of the Excel Chart”
🗓️ Fri 14 Nov: Sammi Rosser – “Reusable by Default”

⚡️Plus lightning talks from our brilliant #HSMA programme graduates!

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#DataScience
RPySOC 2025: NHS-R/NHS.pycom Open Source Conference
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November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Got a spark of an idea about ageing research?🔥

The Ageing Research Café is a space to talk it through with public contributors who bring fresh and lived perspectives.
No presentations, just conversation.

🗓 12 Dec 2025
💻 Online

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Ageing Research Café
Got an idea about research on ageing? Join us to share a pitch & have an informal chat with public partners.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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What an encouraging story of resilience @nisreenalwan.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Working alongside people with lived experience of multiple disadvantage can transform services – and lives.

Our new study with Changing Futures Bristol shows how trauma-informed, co-produced work makes a difference.

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#HealthResearch #CoProduction
Evaluating how people with lived experience of multiple disadvantage can improve services - ARC West
Working alongside people with lived experience of multiple disadvantage to improve services can have multiple benefits, according to a new study published in Health Expectations. Multiple disadvantage...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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🌟 NEW Lunch & Learn: Protecting Infants from #RSV

Join our online session to learn about prevention strategies & the new maternal vaccination programme.

📅 14 Nov, 12:30-13:30 💻 Zoom
Guest: Dr Jonathan Broad

Open to all!

Book here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/arcyorkshire...
#NHS #InfantHealth
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Join a series of free webinars to find out more about the Greater Manchester Respectful Research Charter and how its principles can help you.

🗓️ First webinar: 2nd December 2025, 1-2 pm

🔗 Find out more and register here: bit.ly/4nCth1H

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November 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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New paper: A systematic review of vaccine uptake intervention studies has shown a lack of economic analysis to support decision making.
The review, led by @yhamashima.bsky.social et al, looked at 37 randomised controlled trials, the gold standard of research study.
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Review reveals lack of economic analysis of vaccine uptake interventions - ARC West
A systematic review of vaccine uptake intervention studies has shown a lack of economic analysis to support decision making. The review, led by ARC West researchers and published in Vaccine, looked at...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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🎉 Congratulations Dr @hannahworboys41.bsky.social on passing your PhD viva!

Hannah's research measures quality of life in people with end-stage kidney disease and evaluates whether treatments are effective and provide good value for money.

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Hannah Worboys awarded PhD
Dr Hannah Worboys has successfully passed her PhD viva at the University of Leicester, with funding from the NIHR ARC East Midlands.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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In the last 6 years, we have reached…

📱 Over 13k social media followers, including:
⭐ 9764 on X
⭐ 2512 on Bluesky
⭐ 1068 on LinkedIn
…and more than 1,200 newsletter subscribers 📰

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👉 Follow #6YearsOfARCWest #ARCimpacts
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Massive congratulations to @taralamont.bsky.social who passed her Viva this morning with only minor corrections! 🥳 She demonstrated the hard grafting of #knowledge #mobilisation in a thoughtful conversation with Gillian Harvey, Alison Richardson and me, … 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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combining critical reflection with practical application. Lots of relevant knowledge to use for @nihrarcs.bsky.social KM teams. @unisouthampton.bsky.social 2/2.
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Watch the powerful film from the ARC study exploring how to improve discussions with families when things go wrong in maternity care on the Sands UK website:

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#holisticmaternity
The DISCERN study | Sands - Saving babies' lives. Supporting bereaved families.
The DISCERN study looked at how to improve open disclosure when families are unexpectedly harmed while receiving NHS maternity care.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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✨NEW blog: YHARC researchers share the findings of "Dancing into Wellbeing" evaluation—a collaborative report by @bibresearch.bsky.social, examining the impact of the Royal Ballet and Opera's 'Create and Dance' programme in primary schools across our region.

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Dancing into Wellbeing: How Creative Arts are Building Confidence and Community in Yorkshire Schools - ARC
In this blog, Born in Bradford researchers explains: "Embedding high-quality, creative dance education directly into the school curriculum isn't just about fitness—it's a powerful, accessible interven...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Louise Fisher outlining how the ARC’s maternity research has been instrumental in informing clinical guidance and service delivery of perinatal mental health services. #holisticmaternity

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Informing national policy on perinatal mental health and maternity care
Research by ARC South London’s maternity and perinatal mental health theme has been instrumental in informing clinical guidance and service delivery of perinatal mental health services.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Outlining the scale of the problem, Kaat De Backer says: “Approximately 4,000 babies are placed into state care in the first week after birth every year” #holisticmaternity
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Kaat De Backer says that her research came out of her own experience as a midwife and realisation of “How ill equipped we were to support women with social care involvement” #holisticmaternity

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Improving healthcare and support for families with children’s social care involvement during pregnancy and the first two years of life
Our ARC's maternity and perinatal mental health researchers have collaborated with people with lived experience and charities to explore how to improve support for families with children’s social care...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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In the last 6 years, we have hosted…

280 events 🎟️ including:
✍️ 149 training and capacity-building events
💬 116 public engagement events
… with over 5,000 attendances 🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️🧍

👉 Find out more: arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/six-years-of...
👀 Follow #6YearsOfARCWest #ARCimpacts
November 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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🎙️ New #ChronicConversations episode!
Get expert insights on multiple long-term conditions with Professor Kamlesh Khunti.

Explore clinical challenges, breakthrough therapies, and future innovations.

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Episode 12 – Tackling challenges in multiple long-term conditions with Professor Kamlesh Khunti
Chronic Conversations: Research on multiple conditions · Episode
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November 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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What drives willingness to participate in health research?

Led by our #PhD student Zara Kayani, participation and consent to data linkage varies across demographic groups.

Inclusive recruitment strategies are essential to engage underserved communities.

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Which demographic characteristics are associated with willingness to take part in recontact studies? A cross-sectional study
Background Lower rates of participation in research by ethnic minority groups and socioeconomically deprived populations has led to efforts to develop recruitment strategies which aim to address this ...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM