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What is WSSPR?
WSSPR is a virtual all-Wales school building on the work previously completed by the Wales Social
Prescribing Research Network (WSPRN).
PRIME Centre Wales – overarching infrastructure, sits under Theme 2 - 'Seamless Care Closer to
Home’, within Work Package 4 - 'Care Closer to Communities’.
Health & Care Research Wales has provided infrastructure funding for the development of a
programme of work which includes evaluation methodology and maintenance of the Wales Social
Prescribing Research Network (WSPRN), over 300 members.
Steering group- 20 active researchers
An International Advisory Board- 1st meeting November 11th2020
Dissemination events x3 per annum and for evaluation enquiries. November 6th 2020
Communities of Practice (x3) for engagement with the third, independent and public sectors.
RCE social prescribing circle of interest
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Using a translational model of research
Illustration of Translational Research Critical Path
(adapted from Cooksey 2006 & Weeks et al 2013)
New
Knowledge
Production
Knowledge &
Technology Transfer
Knowledge
Reception &
Adaptation in
Response to
Evolving Practice
Systems &
Evaluations
Knowledge
Use
1st gap in translation
2nd gap in
translation
Feedback Loop
Examples social wellbeing measure,
gardening, sleep, long term effects of
cancer treatment, access to law advice,
growing your own etc.
Mixed methods including Consensus
methods.
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Current students and publications
Research students
Realist evaluation of staying well in your community:
Identifying social prescribing intervention profiles for type &
impact (Susan Beese - PhD)
Identifying the roles of a link worker in Cwm Taf Morgannwg
UHB (Tom Roberts - PhD)
What matters to me when I am paying for care? The Madeline
Project (Leanne Hadley – PhD)
An evaluation study to investigate recruitment into social
prescribing interventions & explore skills sets of link workers in
dealing with complex case referrals (Abraham Makanjuola -
MRES)
Investigating Art-On-Prescription in Wales: How to Achieve
Critical Success Factors for Sustainability (Suzy Rogers – MPhil)
Exploring the development of a new Community Care Hub and
implementation of this social model into primary care delivery
in Wales (PhD – recruiting)
Developing a conversation about identifying community needs
to embrace well-being through social prescribing interventions
(MRES – recruiting)
Developing a theory of change for a complex programme; a
systematic framework for ensuring delivery of outcomes in a
new Wellbeing Hub for the Nantlle Valley (MRES – recruiting)
Setting the scene-These presentations included a history of social prescribing in Wales (ST), a philosophical critique of the literature asking the questions who promotes social prescription? What are their main premises? and where might a focus on process in social prescription take us in practice and theory? This was followed by workshop of six steps of negotiation to achieve consensus, developing a list of research priorities during each step which was recorded on different coloured paper for ease of identification. The six step process was:
1. Producing pre-meeting priorities-Individuals wrote down their three identified key priorities for research without discussing them with other participants in the room.
2. Pairing and sharing- Participants paired with another person and presented their ideas to each other. Then jointly agreed on the most important three ideas out of their six ideas presented.
3. The grouping and regrouping-Participants regrouped with another pair of participants (who had completed the same process) presented and discussed their collective six ideas. The four together then narrowed the six ideas down and agreed three ideas. Re-grouping -Participants regrouped with another four participants who had completed the same process, presented and discussed their collective six ideas. The eight together then narrowed the six ideas down and agreed three ideas. Re-grouping again- Participants regrouped into three groups of uneven numbers, then presented and discussed their collective ideas. The participants then narrowed their ideas down to three agreed ideas.
4. The Ranking -the order of the eight research priorities initially identified was completed through first clarifying the wording and meaning of each research priority as they were transferred onto a flip chart. All participants were asked to vote using sticky dots as to their top three priorities. All contributions during the rounds of negotiation were collated for post event data analysis.
World café questions- Remembering your experiences and knowledge of [name of research priority] in the context of social prescribing, what are the research questions which need to be asked? If you have more than one question, which research question is the priority?
Who would you include in the research team and why?
What specific actions will enable research on this priority question(s) to happen? Identify challenges and solutions.
