Cheshire & Merseyside is home to some of the leading clinical and research experts in maternal and child health.
The Public Health England, Child Health Profile for March 2019 shows the following:
To address the regional maternal and child health needs, the Starting Well programme consulted with partners to understand the health priorities for clinicians, academics and other stakeholders across the Cheshire & Merseyside region. To assist us in this consultation process, we used an adapted Delphi-Method.
From this consultation, we have developed the following programme domains and programmes.
Domain (1) Promoting healthy lifestyles for all
Programme (1) Promoting healthy living
Potential project areas
– Determining why initiation and maintenance rates for breastfeeding remain so poor and the most effective interventions to improve them.
– Developing the evidence of efficacy for strategies and interventions that will have the greatest positive impact in pregnancy, childhood and amongst young people and families, specifically
to;
Programme (2) Mitigating and preventing adversity
Potential project areas
– Understanding the prenatal/perinatal contributors to premature birth, in order to reduce premature birth and improve pre-term child health outcomes.
– Developing strategies to promote the importance and evaluate the uptake of vaccinations
across our community.
– Developing strategies to identify and support early interventions to address Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), specifically to support;
– front-line staff (e.g. health and social care professionals, education providers).
– children and families experiencing ACEs.
Domain (2) Improving chronic conditions for all
Programme (3) Promoting positive mental health and wellbeing
Potential project area
– Determining key interventions that will have the greatest positive impact on the mental health and psychological wellbeing in pregnancy, childhood and amongst young people and families, specifically to;
• Determining the most effective strategies to support the needs of children and young people with complex health care needs/disabilities.
Programme (4) Tackling chronic inflammatory and infection related disorders
Potential project areas
• Developing and evaluating the evidence base, specifically to;
Domain (3) Implementing effective co-ordinated care for all
Programme (5) Developing co-ordinated care
Potential project areas
• Developing effective co-ordinated care for improving the health outcomes in pregnancy and for children and young people, specifically by;
THE HUGH GREENWOOD LEGACY FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTH RESEARCH
Applications are now invited to Round 3 of the Hugh Greenwood Legacy for Children’s Health Research.
The University of Liverpool is in receipt of an £800,000 gift intended to fund a competition for Children’s health research projects held between the University of Liverpool and Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
Applications for round 3 of the funding are invited to support outstanding children’s health research that addresses the needs of Alder Hey patients and their families/ carers. Specifically, they must address one of more of the Liverpool Health Partners ‘Starting Well’ Strategic Priorities (see Starting Well priorities).
Applications must have one senior nominated healthcare or research professional lead from Alder Hey and one senior nominated lead applicant from the University of Liverpool. The fund supports three streams for funding;
Full guidance notes can be found here Hugh Greenwood Guidance doc 2020. The 2020 application form can be downloaded here Hugh Greenwood Application form 2020. The deadline to submit an application is 9am, Monday 12th October 2020.
If you have any queries, please address them to hughgreenwoodfund@liverpool.ac.uk.
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Prof. Michael Beresford – Programme Director
Dr. Colin Morgan – Deputy Director
Dr. Carrie Hunt – Programme Manager
Tel: 07500 835435
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