Join us for an introduction webinar to VICTOR - Making Visible the Impact of Research.
Piloted in 12 Yorkshire and Humber organisations, the VICTOR tool is now available for free to download from an online repository. https://www.e-repository.clahrc-yh.nihr.ac.uk/visible-impact-of-research/.
VICTOR is available online with support for researchers to access and use the system until the end of September 2024.
To learn more about VICTOR, set up an account and use it to capture your research impacts, join our webinar. Register to join us.
Research suggests that involvement in clinical research enhances care processes, fosters a culture of improvement, and encourages new collaborations.
To support this a tool to capture the impact of research in health and care organisations has been developed. The VICTOR tool is designed to discover the perspectives of research teams, clinicians, patients and families on the changes that occur as a result of clinical research. These changes are often invisable to others but they can make a significant impact on patient and staff experience. VICTOR identifies changes in workforce, skills, service delivery, patient experience, and economic benefits, often described as the by-products of research.
Information is gathered through questionnaires sent to research participants, clinicians, managers, and researchers, focusing on the specific impacts of being involved in a research study. Findings are categorised into six domains:
- health,
- service and workforce,
- research profile,
- economics,
- influence and reputation,
- knowledge generation and exchange.
The NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Research Network has funded VICTORs development and turned it into an online e-platform.
For the first time, VICTOR is available online and support is provided for researchers to access and use the system until the end of September. Previous users have found VICTOR can help demonstrate the importance of research in NHS organisations, CGC inspections and quality reports. It also helps to highlight research impacts for clinical academic Allied Health Professionals.
If you would like to know more about VICTOR, set up an account and use it to capture your research impacts register to join our webinar.
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