100 JLA PSPs: Playing an important part of the research process
JLA PSPs can ensure the right questions are asked as well as raise the profile of health conditions with the research and funding community.
Published: 05 October 2020
JLA PSPs can ensure the right questions are asked as well as raise the profile of health conditions with the research and funding community.
Published: 05 October 2020
We are delighted that in 2020 the James Lind Alliance (JLA) has reached the milestone of 100 completed Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs). The JLA has been privileged to support many charities working with their communities in identifying and agreeing priorities for research.
Published: 04 October 2020
From a clinician perspective, involvement in a PSP not only helps ensure that research funded supports the practical decisions that clinical and care teams need to make every day but can have an impact in other ways too.
Published: 03 October 2020
In 2004 when the JLA was established, could we have foreseen the impact that being involved with PSPs would have on patients and carers?
Published: 02 October 2020
In this update we hear about a project that has been encouraging the research community to respond to the priorities identified by the Mental Health in Children and Young People JLA PSP.
Published: 28 September 2020
The Sexual Violence Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) shares their experience of using crowdfunding to support fundraising for the PSP.
Published: 23 September 2020
This update talks about the work that has been happening since publication of the priorities agreed by the JLA Neuro-Oncology PSP in 2015.
Published: 16 September 2020
Shelly Williamson, who coordinated the Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) JLA PSP that was completed in 2018, has kindly updated us on some exciting new research around the condition.
Published: 22 May 2020
The Royal College of Occupational Therapists is working with the JLA to identify the research priorities for occupational therapy in the UK. The project is guided by a Steering Group made up of occupational therapists, health and social care professionals, people with experience of accessing occupational therapy services and their carers. Isaac Samuels, co-chair of the National Co-production Advisory Group at Think Local Act Personal, shared his thoughts on getting involved with this project.
Published: 12 May 2020
Tamara joined the team as a JLA Adviser in late 2019, as part of a collaboration between the JLA and the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH). She updates us on JLA work in Canada.
Published: 22 April 2020
Britney Duncan (pictured), Research Coordinator, Respiratory Research Centre, University of Saskatchewan, talks about how their PSP team knew from the start that they would need to think “outside the box” when it came to engaging Saskatchewan residents with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to find out their treatment-related questions.
Published: 07 April 2020
How do we know if a prioritisation exercise is legitimate and that the resulting priorities are credible? We can only make that judgement if things are reported transparently and comprehensively – and unfortunately for the world of research priority setting, historically this hasn’t always happened.
Published: 27 March 2020
Richard Holt, Editor-in-Chief of Diabetic Medicine and Professor in Diabetes and Endocrinology at the University of Southampton, explains how the series of review articles for the priorities from the Type 1 and 2 Diabetes JLA PSPs came about.
Published: 06 March 2020
Ruth Unstead-Joss from the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) explains what the Occupational Therapy Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) learnt from promoting its first survey.
Published: 07 January 2020
Dr James Cusack, Director of Science at Autistica, describes how the charity has worked with the NIHR to address some of the autism community's priorities following completion of the Autism PSP.
Published: 17 December 2019