PCAPH 2010-11

Chris Butler & Kerry Hood

Mission statement

Our mission is to promote well-being and dignity by reducing the population burden of disease and improving health care through high quality research, teaching, clinical service and innovation and engagement.

Our core aims are to:• Provide excellent education and training for health care

professionals.• Use our multidisciplinary, integrated research environment to:

– Promote healthier communities– Develop relationship-based, holistic, cost effective individual care– Contribute to the understanding and reduction of health inequalities, particularly

in Wales

Overview

• Overview of components of PCAPH

• Update on PCAPH restructuring

• The forthcoming year for…– Research– Education– Innovation & Engagement/wider links

Primary Care & Public Health

South East Wales Trials Unit

Wales Cancer Trials Unit & Cancer RRG

Participant Resource Centre

Epidemiology & Screening RRG

Decision making laboratory

Undergraduate teaching

Postgraduate teaching

Postgraduate research

Wales School for Primary Care

Clinical Epidemiology IRG

Central PCAPH admin

Neuadd Meirionnydd

Primary Care & Public Health

North Wales Clinical School

Patient Safety & Healthcare Quality RRGIndividual Support Program

DECIPHer & PHIRNDiabetes pharmacoepidemiology

Restructuring

Following report summer 2009:– Appointed deputy HoD & Directors of

Research and Education– Initiated review of administrative staff within

the dept– Started to develop more formal committee

structure

HoDChris Butler

Deputy HoDKerry Hood

DoEPaul Kinnersley

DoRGlyn Elwyn

Dept ExecutiveMeets every 2 weeks

Research Strategy Group

Research Management

Group

Education Strategy Group

EducationManagement

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Operational Management GroupEvery 2 months

Professorial & Reader Academic Advisory GroupOnce a term

Over the next year…

Restructuring administrative functions following review – initial model to be discussed with staff at admin away day (23rd Sept).

Guiding principles: – team based working– equality of coverage of support (particularly in teaching)– minimisation of duplication of systems– identified opportunities for staff development/career

development

Organisationally, over the next year…

Continuing implementation of the next stages of academic structuring.

Clear structure for next tier down management functions.

Reorganisation of line management structure in line with functions.

Development of a communications plan for across the dept.

Research Focus 2010-11

• Continuing to focus research themes to create larger cohesive groupings

• Development of processes to maximise REF submission

• Enabling a cohesive, supportive environment for junior & senior researchers alike

REF Pilot- Output Assessment ExerciseBackground• All academic staff who would be potentially returnable in the Research Excellence

Framework (REF)• Maximum of 2 outputs (REF Pilot)

Assessment• Assessment carried out by former RAE 2008 panel members

– UOA1- Prof. D Eisner (Manchester)– UOA2- Prof. P Price (Imperial), Prof. L Young (Birmingham)– UOA3- Prof. J Cohen (Brighton & Sussex), Prof. M Collins (UCL), Prof. F Y Liew (Glasgow)– UOA4- Prof. J Iredale (Edinburgh), Prof. C Cooper (Southampton)– UOA8- Prof T Peters (Bristol), Prof D Mant (Cambridge)– UOA9- Prof P McGuffin (KCL)

• Assessed based on the RAE 2008 criteria (Unclassified - 4*)• Individual feedback provided for each output

REF Output Assessment Results - UOA8 Primary CareREF Pilot: 32 staff (28 staff x 2 ouput, 4 x 1 output)

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REF Output Assessment/RAE 2008 Comparison - UOA8 Primary Care REF Pilot: 60 papers returned (32 staff) RAE 2008: 50 papers returned (13 staff)

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REF Pi lot 9 32 23 28 8

RAE 2008 2 2 36 52 8

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REF Output Assessment Results- Overall Ratings Distribution (%)

1* (19%)

2* (32%)

Unclassified (10%)4* (9%)

3* (30%)

Next steps...

Focus on trying to ensure that potential 2* and 3* papers are supported to ‘tip’ to the higher grade:– Focus on meaning for practice: “Transformational benefit”– Internal peer review before journal submission

Review qualitative comments:– Some policy work may not be considered research– Where the work was not done in Cardiff need to be clear on

author’s role being major– Strengthening abstracts: better descriptions of methods and

implications for practice

Other developments

NISCHR Registered Research Groups: – EPI-SCREEN ( S Palmer)– Cancer (G Griffiths) – Patient Safety in Healthcare (J Gray/ S

Palmer)– Primary Care (C Butler)

South East Wales Trials Unit

NISCHR CRC

Other Developments

• Marie Cure Research Centre (A Byrne)

Partners in:– Sustainable Places Research Institute – Public Health Improvement Research Network

Education Focus 2010-11

• Contributing to the development of the new curriculum for 2013

• Maintaining high quality student experience for existing cohorts

• Streamlining and manualising management processes• Implementing the new BSc Intercalated pathway in

Clinical Epidemiology• Exploring ways to improve areas rated down by students

(NSS)

Undergraduate feedback: CU

Question/Domain Median on 1-10 scale

The quality of learning opportunities for primary care were 9

Question/Domain % good or excellent

Quality of teaching (honorary lecturer) 97%

Quality of teaching (GP tutor) 87%

Quality of teaching (MMIC) 93%

delivered approx. 13,500 student days of placement last year

Undergraduate feedback: NSS

Question/Domain % agreeing

Overall, I am satisfied with the quality of the course 58%

Teaching & Staff 72-89%

Assessment & Feedback 6 – 39%

Academic Support 42-63%

Organisation & Management 20-60%

Learning Resources 75-90%

Personal development 86-96%

Wider links - ChinaLink established with CHUK & CQMU by Chris Butler

Visit from 27th Oct – 3rd Nov• Sian Griffiths visiting as Honorary Visiting Professor

(accompanied by two others)• Key times/dates:

– 27th Oct am: sharing research strengths all welcome especially senior staff

– 28th Oct am: sharing infections research all interested in infection welcome

– 28th Oct evening: Public Science lecture by Sian Griffiths all welcome

– 2nd Nov 2pm: academic workshop all attend– 3rd Nov all day: Symposium on Integrating Primary Care and

Public Health all welcome

Departmental meetings

• Changing structure to support a range of intra-departmental activities

• All academic staff still expected to attend every week

• All are welcome to suggest/lead small groups

• Mix of parallel plenary sessions

September14th Sept Clinical Epidemiology IRG meeting: The Peter

Elwood Lecture

21st SeptEleanor Hatch: SNAART

28th SeptParallel sessions

Other events coming up…

Promoting Active and Healthy Ageing conference – 30th Sept (Public Science lecture in the evening)

Thrombosis Research in Advanced Disease Alliance Study day – 24th Nov

South West Society for Academic Primary Care – hosted by PCAPH in Mar 2011