Each year, NIHR CRN: Mental Health makes an award for a study that has received its support and is judged to have outstanding service user involvement. NIHR CRN: Mental Health have awarded the 2015 scientific meeting award for service user involvement to the study funded by the NIHR’s Research for Patient Benefit scheme, entitled: ‘Characterising the experiences of men and women with learning disabilities following inpatient admission to general hospital’.

We are delighted to offer our congratulations to all those working on the study: Grant holders Dr Marcus Redley (PI, CIDDRG and CLAHRC EoE), Dr Isabel Clare (CLAHRC EoE, CPFT, CIDDRG), Prof Tony Holland (CIDDRG and CLAHRC EoE) , Dr John Bradley (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT, CUH), Mrs Sara Jones (CUH), Mrs Karen Thomson (CUH), Mrs Angela Thompson (East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, ENH) Mrs Bernadette Herbert (ENH), Mr Frank Garvey (Hertfordshire Health Liaison Team), Dr Gyles Glover (Public Health England), Mrs Lyn Jenkins (The Edmund Trust), and non-grant holders Cristina Perez (CIDDRG), Adam Wagner (CLAHRC EoE), and Adam Pitt (CIDDRG).