Developing Research at the Social Services and Health Interface (2001)

The study was designed to assess the scope for the Trent Focus primary care research network to involve social services staff in joint R&D training and development initiatives.It examined the following questions:

• Who are the key groups of social services staff already involved in ‘interface’ work with primary care?
• Which research skills and topics do these staff groups (and their managers) see as appropriate for development through joint work with primary care networks?
• What characterises current, successful modes of research collaboration between social services and primary care?
• What are the perceived barriers to this kind of collaboration?

These findings may be downloaded as PDF document.

There is also a full report available for this project.

A Study for the Trent Focus Group: The research was conducted for the Trent Focus Group, which is funded by NHS Executive Trent to promote research and development in primary care.