NIAA Update: March 2017
Welcome to this month's newsletter
NIAA Opportunities
John Snow Anaesthesia Intercalated Awards 2017
The deadline is fast approaching to apply for this year's John Snow Awards. Up to £2,000 towards student living costs is available to intercalating medical students that are undertaking a research project on a topic related to anaesthesia, critical care, perioperative medicine or pain.
Awards are being funded by the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland (AAGBI)/Anaesthesia, the British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA)/Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA), and the Neuroanaesthesia & Critical Care Society of Great Britain and Ireland (NACCSGBI).
Applications must be submitted with input from the student's academic supervisor by 5pm, Friday 31st March and this year we are accepting applications from both intercalating Bachelors and Masters students. We are also particularly encouraging applications from students at institutions in Wales and Ireland (RoI and NI). Please click here for more information.
NIAA Grants 2017: Round 1
The Round 1 of NIAA Research Grants for this year is open for applications until Friday 21st April. Various levels of funding up to £100,000 are available from NIAA funding partners:
- AAGBI/Anaesthesia and Wiley
- Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
- BJA/RCoA - who have launched a new International Collaborative Grant
- Difficult Airway Society
- Neuroanaesthesia & Critical Care Society
- Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association
- Regional Anaesthesia UK
- Vascular Anaesthesia Society of Great Britain and Ireland
More information on how to apply and the types of funding available is here.
Events
NIAA Annual Scientific Meeting, Friday 12th May 2017
There are now just 6 weeks until this year's meeting, being held at the Royal College of Anaesthetists. We have a full agenda for the day aimed at an audience which includes clinicians, academics, researchers and those interested in quality improvement.
The day will explore a range of topics including clinical trials, health services research, the NIHR CRN and trainee networks. Shortlisted NIAA Research Award finalists will also be presenting their abstracts to the audience, and a panel of judges will announce the overall award winner on the day.
Delegate feedback from last year's event:
"As a trainee, the event was useful and inspiring."
"Great speakers and good range of topics covered. I particularly liked the competition in the afternoon - it was interesting to see the range of research topics"
If you would like to join us at this year's event please register here. We look forward to seeing you there.
NIAA-HSRC Annual QuARC Meeting
If you are registered as a Quality Audit & Research Coordinator (QuARC) within your Trust you should already have received an invitation to attend this meeting, which will provide updates on long-term projects such as the NAPs, NELA, and PQIP, breaking news on new HSRC-led research, and information on emerging research or themes including in paediatric perioperative care, big data and the development of the RCoA/HSRC Quality Faculty. It is being held at the RCoA on Thursday 27 April 2017.
If you're a QuARC and haven't yet registered your attendance please click here for booking instructions and to view the full programme.
Save the date: 2nd Annual POM CTN Autumn Meeting
Wednesday 2nd November 2017
Crowne Plaza, Manchester City Centre
Along with the presentation of major new trial proposals, plenary sessions will include:
• Qualitative Data - More Than Just Numbers
• Big Data- the Future?
• Using Clinical Research to Influence Policy
• Working Together with Surgeons to Deliver Perioperative Studies
The meeting will also offer small group interactive training sessions on:
• Who is the Chief Investigator?
• Surviving the Approval Process
• How can the CRN help you?
With lectures from distinguished health care leaders, delegates will also have the opportunity to provide and receive constructive feedback on future studies and network with fellow researchers across the UK. This is a full day not to be missed!
For more information please go to www.pomctn.org.uk/news or Tweet @POMCTN.
NIAA-HSRC News
SNAP2-EPICCS: Thank you!
The Health Services Research Centre would like to thank all the investigators and clinicians who contributed to SNAP2-EPICCS.
We are sure that between the patient and clinicians perceptions studies we will have recruited over 20,000 cases. This is an extraordinary achievement for UK perioperative research and would have been impossible without the engagement of all staff working in theatres during the week of recruitment and all research staff who have led and supported data collection and entry.
The hard work of analysing the data will start in June after the final follow-up window has ended. We would like to remind all sites that entries need to be uploaded by 9am on Monday 10th April in order for local accruals to be counted towards NIHR portfolio targets.
Please don't hesitate to contact snap2@rcoa.ac.uk if you have any queries.
Find out more about SNAP2 here.
Patient, Carer & Public Involvement & Engagement (PCPIE) Group
Did you know that the NIAA-HSRC can provide lay input to your research proposals, via the PCPIE Working Group? The group consists of members selected from the RCoA's Lay Committee who have an interest in clinical research and has been set up to provide patient, carer and public involvement and engagement to support researchers in anaesthesia and perioperative medicine.
Many funding bodies including the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and the National Institute for Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA) now ask if patient, carer and public involvement has been part of the research process, and the National Research Ethics Service (NRES) will ask about plans for public involvement in your research if you apply for ethical approval. This is where the PCPIE Group can help, by offering comments and views on study proposals and draft versions of public-facing information amongst other input.
All members give their time voluntarily and there is a short online form to request their support - please just allow sufficient time for the group to provide a response, especially if you have a grant application deadline to meet. More information on PCPIE is available here.
DREAMY: Direct REporting of Awareness in MaternitY patients
