North West Hub

Address

The LANTERN Centre
Vicarage Lane
Fulwood
Preston PR2 8DY

Telephone

01772 773 515

Email

info.mhrn@lancashirecare.nhs.uk

North West Hub works with mental health professionals based at the following NHS trusts

Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (child psychiatry services in Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital)
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust
Mersey Care NHS Trust
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Population covered by the hub

6.86 million

We currently work with researchers based at

Lancaster University (The Spectrum Centre for Mental Health Research, Division of Health Research)
University of Liverpool (Departments of Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Public Health and Statistics and Primary Care)
University of Manchester (Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences)

Tim Rawcliffe has been employed as service user development officer since January 2006 and previously served as the ‘service user representative’ on the North West Hub’s Advisory Board.

He is committed to the principle that individuals who have direct lived experience of mental health problems and difficulties have the right to have a voice in the design and delivery of health and social care services.

His role is to encourage and support individuals to become involved in mental health research – from commenting on the feasibility of potential research projects, advising on study materials through to the carrying out of research – and to provide guidance to academic researchers on how best to utilise the ‘insider’ knowledge that experience of mental health problems can bring to the research process. His work is supported by a panel of individuals from across the area covered by the hub, who provide knowledge and awareness of their localities.

He chairs the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)-funded programme ‘Recovery from Psychosis’ Service User Reference Group, and sits on the ‘PARADES’ Trial Steering Committee and Data Monitoring Committee.

He is currently a co-applicant on a Medical Research Council-funded research project to examine the impact of patient/public involvement on health research.

Hub lead

Dr Richard Gater, senior lecturer, University of Manchester, and consultant psychiatrist, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust.

Hub deputy leads

Dr Vimal Sharma, consultant psychiatrist and director of research, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Vimal Sharma developed the Global Mental Health Assessment Tool (GMHAT). The GMHAT/PC is now being translated in to Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi, Dutch and Spanish. He was prinicipal investigator of A National Evaluation of Early Intervention in Psychosis Services: DUP, Service Engagement and Outcome – The National EDEN Project, funded by Department of Health. The project was successfully completed in 2010. He is now principal investigator of the SUstaining Positive Engagement and Recovery (SUPEREDEN) – the next step after Early Intervention for Psychosis. He was a panel member of the NHS R&D HTA programme Therapeutic Procedures Panel between 2004 and 2008.

Professor Jonathan Green, consultant psychiatrist, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Primary care lead

Professor Mark Gabbay is professor of general practice at the University of Liverpool, where he is head of the Department of Health Services Research in the Institute of Psychology, Health and Society. He is also a practising GP in Liverpool.

His research interests include work, health and sickness certification; mental health; understanding innovation and complex interventions in primary care, and health inequalities. He is director of the Liverpool Health Inequalities Research Institute, clinical lead of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) North West Primary Care Research Network, associate director of the NIHR North West Research Design Service, and also primary care lead of the Cheshire and Merseyside Comprehensive Local Research Network.

Social care lead

Dr Barbara Hatfield, senior lecturer in social work, University of Manchester.

North West Hub employs teams of clinical studies officers based at

Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
Manchester Mental Health and Social Care NHS Trust
Mersey Care NHS Trust

Executive Committee

Dr Richard Gater, hub lead
Dr Vimal Sharma, hub deputy lead
Professor Mark Gabbay, hub primary care lead
Dr Barbara Hatfield, hub social care lead
Professor Jonathan Green, hub deputy lead
Tim Rawcliffe, hub service user development officer
Moira Winters, hub manager

Service User Research Panel (SURP)

Suzy Bourke
Andy Bright
Lisa Couperthwaite
John Dixon
Keith Holt
Debbie Mayes
Sam Omar
Tim Rawcliffe

Advisory Board

Professor Francis Creed, University of Manchester (chair)
Dr Richard Drake, University of Manchester
Kathryn Harney, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Christoph Lauber, University of Liverpool
Dr Andy Mee, Manchester Mental Health and Social Care NHS Trust
Dr Pat Mottram, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Pauline Parker, Mersey Care NHS Trust
Alison Robinson, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Lynne Webster, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
David Williams, Manchester Carers Forum
Louise Worrell, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust

North West Hub works with the following organisations

National Institute for Health Research North West Research Design Service
North West Mental Health Research and Development Alliance
Cheshire and Merseyside Comprehensive Local Research Network
Greater Manchester Comprehensive Local Research Network
Cumbria and Lancashire Comprehensive Local Research Network
North West Primary Care Research Network
Manchester Carers Forum

page last updated 27 September 2011