Research and Innovation Strategy 2024-2029 Where Excellence Meets Compassion

• We will improve the ways that we listen to our diverse local communities to understand areas of unmet need and inform our future research. [...] • We will make lasting and continuous improvements to the ways we engage with our service users and local communities to inform our research and innovation. [...] • We will establish a process for public oversight of the delivery of this strategy, ensuring that we engage with diverse groups and act on their feedback. [...] • We will ensure that all our sponsored studies have a plan for communication of research findings with participants. At the end of each study, we will ask the chief investigator to report on how this was achieved. [...] • We will improve the way that we communicate the outputs of management meetings to all our staff, for example the R&I Management Board. [...] • We will develop a framework for supporting students and trainees to get more involved with our R&I. [...] We will encourage and support our R&I staff to develop their careers, proactively promoting the full spectrum of opportunities available. [...] We will implement the recommendations. • To understand our performance, we will review and improve our systems for monitoring granular data relating to research setup. [...] We will maintain and continually improve the systems that we have in place to prioritise research. [...] • We will work with supporting services to evolve our processes for study setup, ensuring that they are optimally lean and proportionate.