Allied Health Professionals leading clinical research

Increasingly clinical research is being led by a broader range of clinical professionals - but there is more to do to encourage physiotherapists, healthcare scientists and every profession to make research part of their careers. In this episode Vicky Booth, a physiotherapist from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust explains to Matt Hurst of the Research & Innovation department how working with falls patients who also had dementia led her to develop her own career as a clinical academic.  Vicky is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham School of Medicine specialising in rehabilitation research. She is also one of the Allied Health Professional Clinical Academic Co-Leads at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust supporting the capacity and capability development of clinical academic careers in the hospital's AHP workforce. Vicky talks to us about how she is now working with other clinical academic leads in Nottingham to encourage others to follow their own route into clinical research and ultimately better care for patients. This Podcast is brought to you by the Research & Innovation team at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Follow us on @ResearchNUH and @NottmBRC, or email R&[email protected]. If you haven't already, please subscribe to this podcast where ever you get your podcasts, and like/review us to help others find our about clinical research. It's for science.