Launch of Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) at Westminster, 12 October 2016

17th October 2016

The University of Sheffield is making a difference to the lives of mental health service users with an innovative new self-assessment measure which will help them in their recovery.

Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) was launched by Paul Blomfield MP at an event at Westminster on the 12th October 2016 and attended by representatives from many mental health trusts across the country and various stakeholders.

The questionnaire will be used in helping to decide what support or services people receive and also to measure and improve the quality of care that service users receive.

The University of Sheffield has worked with the Clinical Outcomes team at Oxford University Innovation Ltd to make ReQoL available.  It is free to all publicly funded health services.

Dr David Churchman, business lead for Clinical Outcomes, presented at the Westminster event informing delegates how to secure permissions to use the ReQoL and how to access support in its use.

Clinical Outcomes at Oxford University Innovation is dedicated to the provision and support in use of high quality Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) measures (mainly Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) Measures (or sometimes referred to as PROMs) to the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare providers, academia and medical device manufacturers.

Clinical Outcomes provides copyright licenses and PRO support services including new instrument development and validation, translation and linguistic validation, and e-platform migration, to our customers.

 

ReQoL has been commissioned and funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme in England for use in the NHS.

Further information on  ReQoL can be found at www.reqol.org.uk and licenses to use the ReQoL can be requested through the Clinical Outcomes website – https://innovation.ox.ac.uk/clinical-outcomes/.

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