M-RIC Review of 2024 A timeline of our milestones
January 2024
M-RIC launches a successful campaign to recruit 10 new service user and carer representatives to join our research teams.
February 2024
M-RIC holds a consultation event to create a new dedicated mood disorders service in Cheshire and Merseyside.
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March 2024
M-RIC funded celebration organised by Savera UK takes place in Liverpool on International Women’s Day.
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April 2024
Pioneering Liverpool City Region ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Alliance meets for the first time.
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May 2024
M-RIC holds a welcome event for our new service user and carer representatives and public advisors.
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May 2024
Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty visits M-RIC.
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July 2024
M-RIC launches a new video on co-production featuring our public advisors for Research Appreciation Day.
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July 2024
Service users and carer representatives and public advisors complete introductory research training course.
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July 2024
Mental Health Mission Patient and Public Involvement, Engagement and Participation Lead Lesley Booth and MQ Mental Health Research Director Emily Wheeler visit M-RIC.
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August 2024
Tim Nicholls, implementation lead for the UK’s Mental Health Mission, praised the progress made by M-RIC during a visit to the centre’s Liverpool headquarters.
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September 2024
The start of the roll out of Count Me In, a system to widen participation in research, begins at the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Annual General Meeting
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September 2024
Results of a survey of service users and carers shows the value of their involvement in M-RIC – to themselves and their professional colleagues.
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October 2024
Mood clinic engagement continues with a workshop to consider how we gather information from service users.
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October 2024
Work begins on the CHESS: Civic Health Equity: from Silos to Systems project which will see Liverpool researchers evaluating and helping to improve support for City Region households
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November 2024
The Count Me In official launch event takes place at the Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre headquarters.
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December 2024
Service user and carer representatives and public advisors celebrate a fantastic year of patient and public involvement and engagement activity at end of year event.
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Learn more about our progress and highlights over the past 12 months by visiting other sections in our 2024 Annual Review.