The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for government policy on health and adult social care matters in England,along with a few elements of the same matters which are not otherwise devolved to the Scottish Government,Welsh Government or Northern Ireland Executive. It oversees the English National Health Service (NHS). The department is led by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care with three ministers of state and three parliamentary under-secretaries of state.
Multimorbidity,also known as multiple long-term conditions (MLTC),means living with two or more chronic illnesses. For example,a person could have diabetes,heart disease and depression at the same time. Multimorbidity can have a significant impact on people's health and wellbeing. It also poses a complex challenge to healthcare systems which are traditionally focused on individual diseases. Multiple long-term conditions can affect people of any age,but they are more common in older age,affecting more than half of people over 65 years old.
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) is a health services research centre based at the University of York,England. CRD was established in January 1994,and aims to provide research-based information for evidence-based medicine. CRD carries out systematic reviews and meta-analyses of healthcare interventions,and disseminates the results of research to decision-makers in the NHS.
The Health and Social Care Select Committee is a Departmental Select Committee of the British House of Commons,the lower house of the United Kingdom Parliament. Its remit is to examine the policy,administration and expenditure of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and its associated agencies and public bodies. The Clerks of the Committee are Previn Desai and Joanna Dodd.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust,also known as SLaM,is an NHS foundation trust based in London,England,which specialises in mental health. It comprises four psychiatric hospitals,the Ladywell Unit based at University Hospital Lewisham,and over 100 community sites and 300 clinical teams. SLaM forms part of the institutions that make up King's Health Partners,an academic health science centre.
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is the British government’s major funder of clinical,public health,social care and translational research. With a budget of over £1.2 billion in 2020–21,its mission is to "improve the health and wealth of the nation through research". The NIHR was established in 2006 under the government's Best Research for Best Health strategy,and is funded by the Department of Health and Social Care. As a research funder and research partner of the NHS,public health and social care,the NIHR complements the work of the Medical Research Council. NIHR focuses on translational research,clinical research and applied health and social care research.
The National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH) is a collaboration between the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness at University College London (UCL). The NCCMH aims to promote the role of evidence synthesis in making informed judgments about healthcare policy. The NCCMH has a history of developing guidelines,conducting systematic reviews and developing implementation guidance for commissioners and service providers. Formed in 2001,on 1 April 2016 a new guideline development centre,the National Guideline Alliance,based at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists took over the clinical guideline programme that had been run by NCCMH.
The National Institute for Social Work Training was set up in 1961,following proposals put forward in the 1959 Eileen Younghusband report for an independent staff college for social work. Its initial funding was assured for ten years by the Nuffield Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust. It was later renamed the National Institute for Social Work (NISW),with a governing body of some twenty-five members.
Ian James Norman is a British nursing researcher and author,based in Surrey,UK. His research and writing is focused primarily in the fields of psychiatric and mental health nursing,and psychological treatments for people with mental health difficulties. Norman is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health in the Faculty of Nursing,Midwifery &Palliative Care at King's College London. He is a former Executive Dean of Faculty and Assistant Principal (Academic Performance) at King's. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Nursing Studies and a practising cognitive behavioural psychotherapist.
Sarah Byford is economist Andréprofessor of health economics and director of King's Health Economics (KHE) at the Institute of Psychiatry,Psychology and Neuroscience. She specializes in the economic evaluation of mental health services and clinical and economic evaluation of complex interventions,including services for children and adolescents.
Peter Beresford OBE,FAcSS,FRSA is a British academic,writer,researcher and activist best known for his work in the field of citizen participation and user involvement,areas of study he helped to create and develop. He is currently visiting professor and senior research fellow in the School of Health &Social Sciences at the University of East Anglia,emeritus professor of citizen participation at the University of Essex and emeritus professor of social policy at Brunel University London. Much of his work has centred on including the viewpoints,lived experience and knowledge of disabled people,mental health and other long term service users in public policy,practice and learning,and working for a more participatory politics.
Kathryn M. Abel FRCP FRCPsych is co-Chair of the Office for Life Sciences and UK Govt's Mental Health Mission and NIHR National Lead for Mental Health Lead. She is an internationally recognised British psychiatrist specialising clinically in resistant schizophrenia and gender-specified service developments. She is a clinical academic,professor of Psychological Medicine and Director of both the Centre for Women's Mental Health and GM.Digital Research Unit at the University of Manchester.
Noemi Lois is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at Queen's University Belfast and an Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist and Vitreoretinal Surgeon at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.
Dame Ann Louise Robinson is a British medical doctor and academic. She is Regius Professor of Ageing at Newcastle University,and director of the Newcastle University Institute for Ageing.
Rosalind Raine is a British applied health research scientist,public medicine doctor,professor of health care evaluation and the founding head of the Department of Applied Health Research at University College London (UCL).
Mike Grocott is professor of anaesthesia and critical care medicine at the University of Southampton and director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research's (NIHR) Southampton Biomedical Research Centre (2022-27). He is an NIHR Senior Investigator (2018-26) and was national specialty group lead for Anaesthesia Perioperative Medicine and Pain within the NIHR Clinical Research Network (2015-2021). He is a consultant in critical care medicine at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
Dawnette Ethilda Edge is a British medical researcher who is a Professor of Mental Health and Inclusivity at the University of Manchester. Her research investigates racial inequalities in mental health,including the origins of the overdiagnosis of schizophrenia in British African-Caribbean people.
Martin Neil Rossor,is a British clinical neurologist with a specialty interest in degenerative dementias and familial disease.
Thara Rangaswamy is a psychiatrist in India,the co-founder of an NGO called SCARF based in Chennai,India. She is a researcher in schizophrenia and community mental health. In 2020,she received the SIRS Outstanding Clinical and Community Research Award of SIRS,an apex body for work on schizophrenia in Florence,Italy.
Lucy Chappell is a British professor of obstetrics at King’s College London and the Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) for the UK Department of Health and Social Care. As part of her CSA role,she oversees the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) as Chief Executive Officer. Her research areas include medical problems during pregnancy such as pre-eclampsia,and the safety of medicines in pregnancy.
