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Tinnitus
A JLA Priority Setting Partnership

Background to the Tinnitus PSP
The JLA is a project which aims to provide an infrastructure and process to help patients and clinicians work together to agree which are the most important treatment uncertainties affecting their particular interest, in order to influence the prioritisation of future research in that area. The JLA defines an uncertainty as a“known unknown” – in this case relating to the effects of treatment.

The Tinnitus PSP has been convened to allow patients and clinicians to have an input in research priorities and uncertainties in the treatment of tinnitus. Several founders have established the Tinnitus PSP to help raise awareness of the need for tinnitus research, and to ensure patients and clinicians lead the identification and prioritisation of these. The initial founders are:

• British Tinnitus Association
• Judi Meadows Memorial Fund
• NIHR National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing

Aims and objectives of the Tinnitus PSP
The aim of the Tinnitus PSP is to identify the unanswered questions about Tinnitus treatment from patient and clinical perspectives and then prioritise those that patients and clinicians agree are the most important.

The objectives of the Tinnitus PSP are to:

• work with patients and clinicians to identify uncertainties about the effects of treatments for tinnitus
• to agree by consensus a prioritised list of those uncertainties, for research
• to publicise the results of the PSP and process
• to make the results to research available to commissioning bodies to be considered for funding

Partners
Organisations and individuals will be invited to take part in the PSP, which represent the following groups:

• people who have or have had tinnitus
• family and friends of people who have or have had tinnitus
• medical doctors, nurses and professionals allied to medicine with clinical experience of tinnitus
  

It is important that all organisations which can reach and advocate for these groups should be invited to become involved in the PSP.

For further information please read the protocol for this initiative.

For further reading on the Tinnitus PSP please click here

JLA Tinnitus Survey
Despite ongoing research activity in the UK and other countries, there are still so many questions about tinnitus assessment, diagnosis and treatment that remain unanswered. These unanswered questions will form the basis of future research and so it is important that we understand which of those questions to prioritise. This survey is about identifying those priorities for future tinnitus research. The survey is now closed

Articles:
Broomhead E (2012). The Tinnitus Priority Setting Partnership. Audio infos no 67. p20-21. Article

For further information please contact:

Emily Broomhead – British Tinnitus Association
Emily@tinnitus.org.uk
Tel: 0114 250 9933