Centre for Care

护理中心是谢菲尔德大学、伯明翰大学、肯特大学和牛津大学、伦敦卫生与热带医学院、国家统计局、英国护理人员协会、国家儿童局和社会护理卓越研究所合作建立的。它与护理部门合作伙伴和领先的国际团队合作，解决了对有关护理的新的、可获得的证据的迫切需求。护理安排以及需要或提供护理的人面临前所未有的压力。质量、成本、未得到满足的需求以及护理者和护理员的状况是核心问题。CARE与NHS、就业市场以及移民、福利和住房政策中的其他系统相互作用。决定获得支持资格和融资规则的文化、价值观和公共政策也是至关重要的，像新冠肺炎这样的冲击具有深远而多重的影响。这些因素加在一起导致了零散的护理提供和不公平的结果，改革的必要性现在已被广泛接受。护理中心为政策制定者、护理部门组织以及需要或提供护理的人提供了新的证据和思考。其目标是：-与需要护理的人、护理者、护理工作者和其他人合作，制定研究报告，提高对护理的理解，促进福祉；-发表关于护理系统、有偿和无偿护理以及护理的多样性、不平等和可持续性的可靠发现；-利用现有数据并开发新的研究结果，得出政策制定者和其他研究人员可以使用的结果；-与博士生和新兴学者合作，建立新一代护理专家；-刺激和告知公众对护理的讨论并将研究转化为实践；以及-与英国国内外的其他护理研究团队合作。在研究护理时，我们侧重于支持、服务和保护，以促进所有年龄段的弱势或残疾人的福祉，以及影响他们的网络、社区和系统。我们的工作将在三个主要主题上产生新的知识：护理轨迹和限制：要求、接受和给予护理，探索不同生命阶段的护理体验，以及当人们在护理系统的不同部分之间过渡时。它还研究了当家庭分散在地理上时，给予或接受照顾是如何受到影响的。《护理中的新品质：后果、规划和地点》使用最新的统计和数据链接技术，了解社会经济、健康和其他不平等如何塑造护理体验，以及这些因素对不同地点和不同时间的群体和个人的后果。“护理人员变化：组织、提供和发展”侧重于护理人员的招聘和条件；护理工作的监管和组织，包括引入新技术；以及努力改善护理工作和服务质量。在这些研究的交叉中，该中心还将研究“护理作为一个复杂的、适应性的生态系统”、“数字护理”和护理数据基础设施“，支持我们所有研究的整合。这有助于我们对护理不平等、护理生态系统如何运行和变化以及数字化和其他发展的驱动因素和影响进行新的思考。它还使我们能够利用英国最好的统计数据集来产生关于护理和护理的令人信服的新见解。我们的多学科研究团队建立在强大的护理研究组合的基础上，并得到其他九个国家和地区的研究人员的支持，他们都同样热衷于进行有影响力的研究，以推动护理和护理体验的积极变化。我们的工作是与护理部门组织和团体合作开展的，这些组织和团体代表需要护理的人、照顾者和护理工作者进行倡导。护理中心充满活力、创新，并决心通过有影响力的、可供所有人使用的研究来产生积极的影响。

The Centre for Care is a collaboration between the universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, Kent and Oxford, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Office for National Statistics, Carers UK, the National Children's Bureau and the Social Care Institute for Excellence. Working with care sector partners and leading international teams, it addresses the urgent need for new, accessible evidence on care. Arrangements for care, and people who need or provide care, are under unprecedented pressure. Quality, cost, unmet need and the situation of carers and care workers are central concerns. Care interacts with other systems in the NHS, jobs market and in policy on migration, welfare and housing. The cultures, values and public policies that determine eligibility for support and funding rules are also crucial, and 'shocks' like Covid-19 have profound and multiple effects. Together, these factors have led to fragmented care provision and unfair outcomes, and the need for reform is now widely accepted. The Centre for Care provides new evidence and thinking for policymakers, care sector organisations and for people who need or provide care. Its objectives are to: - work with people who need care, carers, care workers and others to produce studies that improve understanding of care and promote wellbeing;- publish robust findings on care systems, on paid and unpaid care, and on diversity, inequalities and sustainability in care; - exploit existing data and develop new studies, producing findings that policymakers and other researchers can use; - work with PhD students and emerging scholars, establishing a new generation of care specialists; - stimulate and inform public discussion of care and translate research into practice; and - collaborate with other care research teams, within and beyond the UK. In studying care, we focus on support, services and protections to promote the wellbeing of vulnerable or disabled people of all ages, and the networks, communities and systems that affect them. Our work will generate new knowledge on three major topics: 'Care trajectories and constraints: requiring, receiving and giving care' explores experiences of care at different life stages and as people transition between different parts of the care system. It also studies how giving or receiving care is affected when families are geographically dispersed. 'Inequalities in care: consequences, planning and place' uses latest statistical and data linkage techniques to learn how socio-economic, health and other inequalities shape experience of care, and the consequences of these for groups and individuals in different places and over time. 'Care workforce change: organisation, delivery and development' focuses on care worker recruitment and conditions; regulation and organisation of care work, including the introduction of new technologies; and efforts to improve job and service quality in care.Cross-cutting these studies, the Centre will also examine 'Care as a complex, adaptive ecosystem', 'Digital care' and Care data infrastructure', supporting the integration of all our research. This helps us develop new thinking on care inequalities, how care ecosystems operate and change, and the drivers and implications of digitalisation and other developments. It also enables us to exploit the UK's finest statistical datasets to produce compelling new insights on care and caring. Our multidisciplinary research team builds on a strong portfolio of care studies and is supported by researchers in nine other countries, all equally passionate about doing impactful research that can drive positive change in experience of care and caring. Our work is undertaken in partnership with care sector organisations and groups advocating on behalf of people who need care, carers and care workers. The Centre for Care is vibrant, innovative, and determined to make a positive difference through impactful, accessible research for all to use.