Type of Opportunity Patient-Public Involvement Contributor (known as Public Contributor[1]) with the research programme called “Assembling the Data Jigsaw” Time Commitment There will be approximately 10 meetings during the time of the research which will run...
The story of a comment at a Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) Group by a patient contributor that turned into the award of a successful patient co-led grant.Lynn Laidlaw (Patient Researcher), Joyce Fox (Patient Researcher), and Dr Charlotte Sharp (Principal...
People living with arthritis and musculoskeletal disease were amongst those identified as “clinically extremely vulnerable” to COVID-19 by the NHS England. Research, commissioned by Versus Arthritis, found the approach to shielding was unclear, causing confusion and...
In 2016, researchers at the Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis conducted a national smartphone study, called Cloudy with a Chance of Pain, to investigate the age old belief that weather influences pain. We asked people to track their symptoms using a smartphone...
A team of researchers from the Centre for Health Informatics and the Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis have developed the Manchester Digital Pain Manikin app.The app contains a human body-shaped figure (the manikin) on which people can draw to indicate where...
By Karen Staniland, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Lead for the REMORA project. Many of us experiencing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can relate to the frustrations of six-monthly clinical outpatient consultations at a hospital. Although these...
By Dr Charlotte Sharp, Academic Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology, who led the development of a video to train people with arthritis to self-examine for tender and swollen joints. The coronavirus pandemic has led to an explosion in the amount of remote or virtual care...
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