MHRN East Midlands Hub plus South Yorkshire
Director lead: Professor Richard Morriss
The regional centre of the Mental Health Research Network (MHRN) provides support for large-scale, high-quality research into mental health and social care in the NHS. The East Midlands and South Yorkshire regional centre 'or Hub' is one of eight regional offices for the Network across the country.
Newsletter February 2012 [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 1.19 MB]
Corporate Review 2011 [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 1.86 MB]
The MHRN is part of England's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) with a mission to help make research about mental health happen within the NHS in England. The aim is to promote research so that we can improve treatments and services for people with mental health problems.
The team's staff of experienced researchers, managers and mental health professionals work in local universities and NHS organisations around the region. The main East Midlands office is within the Institute of Mental Health in Nottingham, with a South Yorkshire base in Sheffield and further offices in Lincoln and Derby.
The Hub works with everyone who needs to be involved in research projects – researchers, mental health professionals, people with experience of mental health problems, their families, and research and development staff based in NHS Trusts.
They work on studies that are based within mental health services, within social care services and within primary care services. The MHRN supports both publicly-funded research studies and projects that are sponsored by industry. All the research projects aim to improve treatment and care or to find out more about different mental health problems.
The East Midlands plus South Yorkshire Hub is a partnership between the universities of Lincoln and Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and the South Yorkshire Comprehensive Local Research Network.
The Hub can:
- Assist with recruitment and assessments
- Work with service users and carers who wish to participate in the research process
- Help with local governance approvals
- Help access clinicians and services
- Assist in finding potential collaborators locally and in other regions.
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