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Your HRA Public Involvement Newsletter
Issue 28, March 2025
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Welcome
Hello everyone and welcome to your public involvement newsletter. To subscribe and to see previous issues of the newsletter, please visit the HRA website.
We have created a text-only version that should be easy to print. You can also view the newsletter as a webpage. Click on the link at the top of this newsletter and zoom in using the ‘Ctrl’ and the ‘+’ symbols.
For support with this, or if you need the newsletter in a different format, you can read our guidance, email the public involvement team at public.involvement@hra.nhs.uk or call on 0207 104 8161.
If there is something you'd like to include, or learn more about, do let us know.
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In this section, we give a short update on some of the involvement activity we have in progress and share new invitations to get involved in our work.
Last month, we met with 13 different members of the public. Activities included:
- a workshop to help develop principles for when and how we partner and collaborate with other organisations
- an update and feedback meeting with a group that helped improve how the public involvement team works to deliver the HRA strategy
- a learning and sharing meeting, as part of the Shared Commitment to Public Involvement, a movement to embed public involvement in health and social care research
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In this section, we share news about some of the HRA’s work that we think you may be interested in. You might also enjoy exploring the news and updates section of the HRA website.
 From 1 April 2025, any new research applications submitted via the Integrated Research Application System (IRAS) will either:
Our refreshed GDPR template was shared in October 2024
In the November issue of our public involvement newsletter, we described who we worked with and how, to make changes to our GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) transparency template to improve clarity and reflect people's concerns about the use of their data.
 Our Non-Executive Directors play a vital role in the leadership and governance of the HRA, ensuring that our decision making processes are robust and protect the interests of patients and the public.
Neelam Patel is now our interim Chair. And we have three new Non-Executive Directors: Professor Alastair Denniston, Professor Marian Knight and Mark Buswell.
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In this section, we share news of activities organised by other groups or organisations. To find out more about the activity, please contact the organisers directly.
To include a news item relating to public involvement in health or social care research, please email the public involvement team at public.involvement@hra.nhs.uk
 A new diagram developed by a public contributor Louise Ting and NIHR West of England Applied Research Collaborative (ARC) Young People’s Advisory Group (YPAG) explains how young people can get involved in research.
ARCs are partnerships between NHS providers, universities, charities, local authorities, Health Innovation Networks and other organisations. They support health and care research to respond to, and meet, the needs of local populations and local health and care systems.
Lucy Condon, who manages ARC West’s YPAG, said:
“As usual, our YPAG members came up with the goods, and have helped Louise develop a diagram that’s useful, accessible and inspiring, without being patronising. Thanks to everyone involved for such great work!”
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In this section, we provide information on the HRA, our people, and the other organisations we work alongside.
 Monday 10 March is the third anniversary of the Shared Commitment to Public Involvement, a movement to embed public involvement in health and social care research.
31 organisations have now signed up to the commitment to improve the extent and quality of public involvement across the sector so that it is consistently excellent. Collectively, we're better able to communicate our key message:
Public involvement is important, expected and possible in all types of health and social care research.
On the 10 March, the HRA, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and 29 other organisations that support, fund, regulate and use health and social care research will be sharing their achievements and learning through newsletters, blogs and social media using the hashtags #SharedCommitment and #PublicInvolvement.
To find out more, email the public involvement team at public.involvement@hra.nhs.uk or phone on 0207 104 8161.
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In response to feedback and enquiries, we have brought together this section with important information for people involved in our work. Let us know if you think we are missing any key information.
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