JIGSAW-E - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Jigsaw - E Team
- Nurse
Andrew has been a nurse for 18 years and in that time has developed expertise in rheumatology nursing and primary care musculoskeletal research. Andrew is a clinical academic at Keele University undertaking roles in education, research and clinical practice. Andrew's PhD allowed him to research and to work with patients with osteoarthritis (OA) as part of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) looking at the management of OA in primary care (MOSAICS). This work also allowed him to pilot the original model OA consultation that now helps to inform the JIGSAW project. Andrew leads the ‘Fundamentals in General Practice Nursing' programme at Keele and also leads a CCG funded evidence based practice group for multidisciplinary primary care health professionals.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Jigsaw - E Team
Dr. Colin Stanford has been a GP in Much Wenlock and Cressage for 28years and a former board member of Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group.
As the chair of the South Shropshire Locality group for three years, he lead a group of likeminded GPs to develop better care for isolated rural patients with osteoarthritis and with support from the clinical academic Staff at Keele University, linking to the MOSAIC trial, the team has now initiated a programme of enhanced osteoarthritis management led by Practice Nurses across Shropshire.
Since retiring from his practice in 2017 he is directing his energies towards his Clinical Champion role within the JIGSAW E project and the commissioning of high quality Primary Care in Shropshire.
Job Titles:
- General Practitioner
- Member of the Jigsaw - E Team
- Partner
- General Practitioner Partner, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care and Senior Lecturer in General Practice / JIGSAW - E PI
Dr Lizzie Cottrell is a General Practitioner Partner and an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care. Her Ph.D. focussed on the attitudes and beliefs of GPs regarding clinical knee osteoarthritis. She has now taken this work forward into her post-doctoral research, in which her focus is primary care management of musculoskeletal problems such as osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. Lizzie has an interest in the delivery of services, both in terms of understanding healthcare professionals' behaviours, identifying effective service models and evaluating service delivery. Combining her academic and clinical expertise, she is now a member of the implementation team at Keele University, this provides Lizzie with the platform to bridge the gap between research evidence and real world clinical practice.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Jigsaw - E Team
Job Titles:
- Member of the Jigsaw - E Team
- Senior Lecturer in General Practice / JIGSAW - E GP Champion
Dr. Vince Cooper's main role within the Implementation Team is to lead the roll-out of the Osteoarthritis (JIGSAW) programme in Shropshire, with a view to implementing it more widely, including our European initiative, JIGSAW-E.
Vince's main interest and expertise is in education; in this context, developing educational programmes, materials and clinician support packages, delivering workshops and developing the concept of clinical champions to promote implementation projects at local levels.
As a GP, Vince can also help the team engage with clinicians and orientate implementation projects to achieve most effective engagement by the clinicians we need to deliver enhanced care. Besides this role in the Implementation Team, Vince is involved in the ENHANCE and StarTMSK research programmes within the Institute, providing opportunities to share ideas and experiences between implementation and research project design e.g. similarity of training needs and approaches, design of clinical templates.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Jigsaw - E Team
- OA Nurse Champion
Job Titles:
- Member of the Jigsaw - E Team
- Head of NHS Partnerships and Engagement / Impact Accelerator Unit Deputy Director
As Head of NHS Partnerships Helen works closely with Keele's local, regional and national partners to drive forward high quality evidence based practice. A Keele graduate in 1990 Helen quickly joined the NHS in North Staffordshire, always enjoying a strong partnership with Keele to develop innovative clinical academic posts. As a NHS manager for over 15 years within primary and secondary care settings, Helen enjoyed a close working relationship with the Rheumatology team at the Haywood Hospital, and was Hospital Manager for Stoke Community Hospitals for 5 years.
Helen's role is to support the Keele/NHS partnership in developing strategies to ensure engagement of NHS partners (patients, clinicians and managers) in all stages of our research from design, to implementation in everyday practice. As Deputy Director of Keele's Impact Accelerator Unit, Helen is passionate about ensuring that the results of research can be implemented to support the most effective commissioning and provision of clinical services. Returning to Keele in 2011, Helen has enjoyed seeing Staffordshire, Cheshire and Shropshire lead the way in implementing high quality research in practice. Within JIGSAW-E Helen role is to secure strategic engagement of all NHS partners including regional/national bodies, to see funding opportunities for the project and to support contracting/financial negotiations across all partnering bodies.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Jigsaw - E Team
- NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Physiotherapy / JIGSAW - E Physiotherapy Champion
I am an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Physiotherapy with a focus on osteoarthritis and long-term conditions. Through this varied role I am involved with osteoarthritis research, implementation (helping facilitate the uptake of the latest osteoarthritis research evidence into clinical practice), and clinical work as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist. My specialist interests include, non-drug treatments for osteoarthritis including education, exercise and weight management. In 2016 I completed a PhD at Keele University investigating "attitudes, beliefs and physical activity in older adults with knee pain" and have been a qualified clinical physiotherapist since 2002.
Within the JIGSAW E team, I have a role as "physiotherapy champion". This role has involved the set-up, delivery and evaluation of a pilot GP-physiotherapist general practice version of the JIGSAW model osteoarthritis consultation and treatment. I also contribute to local and international team meetings, academic writing, and engage healthcare practitioner networks and the public about the JIGSAW E project and best clinical practice guidelines for treating osteoarthritis. For example, I set up a Physiotherapist Osteoarthritis Community of Practice and have produced and contributed to teaching materials, training and workshops for healthcare practitioners (nurses, physiotherapists, pharmacists and general practitioners), given presentations to researchers and been involved with public engagement osteoarthritis awareness events.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Jigsaw - E Team
Job Titles:
- Member of the Jigsaw - E Team
Job Titles:
- Physiotherapist
- Research Fellow
Laura Swaithes is a Physiotherapist and a Clinical Academic Research Fellow at Keele University. Her Ph.D. work focusses on knowledge mobilisation and the barriers and facilitators to implementation in primary care. This is a multiple-methods qualitative project looking at the ‘lessons learned' from MOSAICS and JIGSAW to identify the components required to optimise implementation and to produce draft recommendations for primary care.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Jigsaw - E Team
- Impact Accelerator Unit Project Manager
Nicki Evans' role is to support the evidence to practice gap by managing the operational delivery of key innovation projects for the Impact Accelerator Unit supported through the Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences (iPCHS), Keele University.
She takes the lead for the project management of all impact projects and innovations delivered by the unit as well as supporting engagement with stakeholders within the health arena, collaborations with industry partners and support for the dedicated patient involvement group for the unit, LINK (Lay Involvement in Knowledge Mobilisation)
She graduated from University of Liverpool in 2001 with a degree in Nutrition and has worked in the NHS for 10 years in the public health arena prior to moving to the unit to enhance her project management skills.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Jigsaw - E Team
- Health Informatics Specialist
- Member of the Research Institute for Primary Care & Health Sciences
Simon Wathall works as a member of the Research Institute for Primary Care & Health Sciences assisting researchers, study teams, the Clinical Trials Unit, the Impact Accelerator Unit, AHSN and CRN West Midlands to provide advice and skills on using existing GP clinical systems for research and implementation. Responsible for the design of bespoke electronic tools, templates and ‘pop ups' that can be embedded within these existing GP clinical systems to perform eligibility, identification, recruitment, screening and data collection functions.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Jigsaw - E Team
- Research Design Service / JIGSAW - E Patient Involvement Lead
In his role with the Research Design Service, Steven provides methodological expertise for Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in research for the West Midlands region, including the iPCHS and Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Keele University. As the lead of the iPCHS' Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement team, he provides overall management and leadership for PPIE design and delivery in the Institute. Steven is the international lead for PPIE on implementation projects in the iPCHS' Impact Accelerator Unit. He has a regional and national lead role for public involvement with NIHR INVOLVE and the Research Design Service.
Steven also leads the #KeeleINSPIRE initiative - Implementing the New Standards for Public Involvement in Research Environments. Keele has been chosen as one of the ten test beds in the UK to test the standards over the course of 12 months, from April 2018 to April 2019.
Steven's research studies include the SPCR funded study, ‘ Understanding the costs and consequences of patient and public involvement in Primary Care research', and Arthritis Research UK funded ‘Empowering patients in their musculoskeletal care using the Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire (MSK-HQ): The Joint Agenda Study". Steven is a member of the RI's Musculoskeletal Services and Outcomes research group and my research interests are the impact of PPI in research, patient-reported outcome measures, health technologies.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Jigsaw - E Team
Tina Hadley-Barrows qualified from the Queen Elizabeth School of Physiotherapy, University of Birmingham 1991 and went on to complete MSc in Human Factors at Nottingham University 1999. She has sought out and created opportunities to be involved with research throughout her career.
Currently Tina has a Dual role: Physiotherapy Research Facilitator and Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner in the NHS.
She is a JIGSAW-E Osteoarthritis Clinical champion, supporting all JIGSAW-E interventions into the community along with training programmes and website development support. She has ensured that JIGSAW-E information is available across the whole patient pathway.
She has also recently been appointed as Allied Health Science Networks West Midlands regional clinical lead for the implementation of the evidence based ESCAPE pain programme, for patients with Osteoarthritis of the knees and hips.
Tina is passionate about research and implementation of evidence into practice to support evidence informed clinical and cost effective, high quality care for patients and optimisation of valuable NHS and research resources.