Agenda

1pm - Welcome

Professor Kamlesh Khunti

Director, NIHR ARC East Midlands

1:05pm - Keynote speaker - "The challenge of multimorbidity and the role of research"

Professor Chris Whitty

Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Social Care

1:20pm - Overview of work carried out by ARC EM

Professor Kamlesh Khunti

Director, NIHR ARC East Midlands

1:35pm - Harnessing the expertise across translational, applied and policy research NIHR infrastructure to address the needs of people with multiple long term conditions

Dr Madina Kara

Multiple Long Term Conditions Strategy Implementation Lead, NOCRI: Collaborations/National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)

1:45pm – Overview of the National Multiple Long Term Conditions prioritisation process

Dr Ash Routen

Research Fellow, University of Leicester

1:55pm – MLTCs and patient views

Pauline Mountain

Member of the Community Voices Panel

2:05pm – Panel Discussion and Q&A with presenters

Chair – Professional Kamlesh Khunti

2:25pm – Break

2:30pm - NIHR ARCs Approach – Presentations from NIHR ARCs

Chair – Dr Tom Wilkinson, Research Fellow, University of Leicester

2.30pm 1. ARC East Midlands – Projects currently in preparation

Dr Patrick Highton, Research Associate, University of Leicester

2:45pm – 2. ARC West, Improving experiences in primary care for people with multiple long-term conditions

Dr Rachel Johnson, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care, University of Bristol

3pm – 3. ARC South London, Research with people who have multiple long-term conditions: recommendations from a public involvement workshop

Lisa Brighton, Research Assistant, Kings College London & Ms Marion Sumerfield

3:15pm – 4. ARC Northwest London – Clustering Multimorbidity in Patients Hospitalised with COVID-19

Dr Tom Woodcock, Imperial College

Derryn Lovett, Imperial College London

3:30pm – 5. ARC North Thames/York & Humber, Addressing the mortality gap for people with severe mental illnesses. Primrose-A/UCLP Frameworks. A MLTC Cross-ARC project in York/Humber and North Thames

Professor David Osborn, Theme Lead in Multimorbidity & Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology, University College London

3:45pm – Multiple Long Term Conditions and Approaches to Implementation

Professor Gary Ford

Chair of the AHSN Network

3:55pm – Future challenges to Multimorbidity Research in the post COVID-19 era

Dr Ffion Curtis

Research Fellow, University of Leicester

4pm – Thank you & Close

Managing Multimorbidity Seminar