The group aims

The overarching focus of the workstream is to identify opportunities for large-scale collaborative projects to develop and evaluate ways of delivering health and care services, at health/care sector level or population level (closely aligned with policy and practice). This is to ensure the best possible outcomes for people with MLTC, leverage new grant funding, implemented through collaborative working across NIHR infrastructure with the specific aims of:

• To conduct a mapping exercise to identify current research relating to models of care, to support identification of key research priorities
• To establish a Models of Care Workstream delivery team that will develop key tractable research challenges aligned to research priorities
• To work with external funders, including commercial organisations, specialist societies and charities, to identify appropriate funding opportunities that will enable delivery of these priority research activities
• To support alignment of research activities across NIHR infrastructure to maximise on existing or leveraged investments and add value to complementary initiatives.

• To develop and help deliver multi-site research projects/activities which cannot be performed by one centre