Reply To: medical and Health Services SIG relaunch and Hello!

[Keji Dalemo]

Hello Alison, and Joe,

I too am looking forward to participating in this SIG and contributing to its growth. Just a brief introduction: I work for a Research Support Service in London that represents seven NHS trusts, and mental health primary care research in the central, north, and East London region. I am the sponsorship manager which means I am the sponsor representative for all of our NHS trusts, and manage the growing sponsor function and team.

One of my areas of focus for next year will be engaging front line clinical staff (nurses, care coordinators etc.) so that they can become more invested (therefore supportive of) research and recognise the contribution they can bring to. The hope is that they will become more motivated to actually initiate their own research and at the very least have more confidence in expressing interest in being P.I.’s and working more with the R&D office to contribute that invaluable intelligence they have to inform the feasibility of proposed research. I would like for NHS clinical staff to have more of that enterprising research spirit that can be found in HEI, and to be recognised for their contributions accordingly :0).

Kind regards

Keji