Welcome Pack - Keele University

Aims of the group and your commitment
Our aim is to ensure that clinical practice is based on the best available
evidence and encourage change in practice where necessary.
The Research Facilitation Group is a group clinicians and clinical researchers
that are interested in musculoskeletal disease. The professions represented
are:
Nursing
Occupational Therapy
Podiatry
Physiotherapy
Clinical Researchers
Health Information Librarians
Psychologists
Therapy Managers
The group is supported by Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre,
University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke PCT, North Staffs PCT and
Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust.
Our aims are to:
Ensure clinical practice is evidence based and assist practice change
where required
Increase the research awareness of staff involved in managing patients
with musculoskeletal disease
Search the evidence for relevant up to date clinical recommendations
and then feed this back to staff in clinical practice
Identify gaps in the evidence
Link with our academic partners to develop research proposals
Increase our research awareness skills
Publicise and communicate our results
Your commitment
The group meets four times a year at three monthly intervals. Meetings are
held at Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Keele University and last
3 hours, normally 9-12. Coffee and refreshments are provided.
You will be required to attend the meeting and commit to appraising articles in
between the meetings. This would amount to no more than 2 hours per
month. We would hope you would cascade useful information to your team
within your own area of practice and highlight the work of the group. We
would also ask that you canvas opinion on future questions that are important
for us to answer
Musculoskeletal Research Facilitation Group – Welcome Pack January 2011- Kay Stevenson