The National PROMs Network is a network of individuals committed to working together to share experience and support in the relatively young but rapidly growing area of collecting and using Patient Reported Outcome Measures.
Initially focussing on orthopaedics, it has become clear that there is a real need for such a resource across many specialities for people who have been given “PROMs” as part of their regular job. Support and educational understanding of what the data represents has widened our membership to include researchers, platform developers, and academics in addition to surgeons, managers, nurses, physiotherapists and other healthcare teams. Recently we have gained new members as more organisations are appointing dedicated staff for PROMs collection and we have been proud to support and advise them.
Following a workshop to explore the idea, the PROMs Network was created to allow organisations to start
working collaboratively with the aim of standardising PROMs collection and analysis nationally. All levels of staff engaged in PROMs use are able to join the network to share experience and support on processes for collection, analysis and benchmarking. Our aim is to ensure transparency and effective utilisation of PROMs by providing a central resource of experienced individuals to work with clinicians, managers, administration and I.T teams, developers, researchers and academics.
We are about to refresh the Network (summer 2026) so please watch this space!
We are proud to announce a new partnership with Leeds Beckett University which we hope will enable the PROMs Network to grow and evolve.
Anji Kingman, Network co-ordinator
If you would like to join the network please complete our contact form, telling us a little about you and your experience with PROMs.
Meet the team
Anji Kingman is the Clinical Outcomes Manager at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, managing the extensive elective orthopaedics PROMs programme there. She is also PROMs and Administration lead for the UK Bone and Joint Infection Registry, and for openOutcomes. Anji is a member of openEHR International and of the Bone And Joint Infection Society. LinkedIn: Anji Kingman
Tim Pickles is a Senior Research Fellow in Psychometrics at Leeds Beckett University. School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Antoinette Davey is an interdisciplinary health services researcher with internationally recognised expertise in patient-reported outcome and experience measures (PROMs/PREMs), specialising in their implementation and evaluation across perinatal mental health and primary care settings. She currently is a clinical trial manager for an antenatal anxiety trial based at Devon Partnership NHS Trust and University of Exeter. Her PhD generated globally recognised insights into temporal variation in PROM responses, establishing that symptom reporting varies systematically by time of day, week, and season, a methodological contribution with direct implications for how PROMs are administered and interpreted in routine clinical practice. As the UK representative on the PROTEUS consortium and a six-year elected leader within ISOQOL’s UK/Ireland and Mixed Methods Special Interest Groups, she has championed the advancement of PROMs methodology at international level. In 2024 she organised the National PROMs Research Conference in Exeter, attracting over 120 delegates from academia, NHS, industry, and policy, with a plenary address from Baroness Julia Cumberlege. Her work spans large-scale NIHR programmes including IMPROVE, ESMI-II and the ACORN II RCT, consistently embedding rigorous outcome measurement into complex, multi-site clinical research. Antoinette is deeply committed to advancing the PROMs field ensuring that outcome measurement is not only methodologically robust but practically meaningful for clinicians, patients, and the services that depend on high-quality data to drive improvement.
Mr Kanthan Theivendran is our Lead Consultant and is an orthopaedic consultant at Sandwell & West Birmingham. Twitter: @KTheivendran Mastodon: @kanthan@mstdn.social
Professor Mike Reed and Mr Ajay Malviya, orthopaedic consultants at Northumbria Healthcare Foundation NHS Foundation Trust continue to lead their PROMs Network working groups and are our founding clinical leads.
Sadly we have lost a beloved friend and colleague, Rebecca Lafferty (Wrightington) whose input, wit and insight are greatly missed.
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