“There’s a growing body of evidence which illustrates that research active hospitals have better patient outcomes. Not only this, but we also know that patients really value the opportunity to take part in, and benefit from, research taking place in their local hospital. “
Dr William van’t Hoff, Chief Executive NIHR Clinical Research Network
North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a research active organisation which is proud to support clinical research. The Trust participates in a variety of different research projects and is always looking for new research opportunities to offer to our patients, carers and staff to support the development of treatments for ourselves and for future generations.
Standard operating procedures
R&D SOP01 Adverse Event & Safety Reporting for CTIMPs
R&D SOP02 Obtaining Informed Consent for CTIMPs
R&D SOP03 Maintaining Rater Blind for CTIMPs
R&D SOP04 Emergency Telephone Calls relating to CTIMPs
R&D SOP05 Documenting Patient Research Participation in Electronic Health Records
R&D SOP06 Investigator Site File Maintenance for CTIMPs
R&D SOP07 Use of Third Party IT Equipment for Clinical Trials
R&D SOP08 Archiving of Investigator Site Files for Clinical Trials
R&D SOP09 Clinical Research Associate access to Trial Participant Data in eHR
R&D SOP10 Serious Breaches of GCP or Protocol
R&D SOP11 Sponsorship of Research Studies
R&D SOP12 Commercial research income distribution and reinvestment model
Guidance documents
R&D GD01 Safe Handling of Dry Ice
R&D GD02 Chief-Principal Investigator Responsibilities
R&D GD03 Post-Study Supply of Investigational Product
R&D GD04 Research Specific Functionality in Rio
R&D GD05 Managing Research Agreements & Contracts
Trust research training prospectus
R&D Training and Short Courses Prospectus
Mental Health Research Incubator Website
The incubator for mental health research website officially launched on the 25th January 2021 and aims to support mental health professionals explore opportunities in research. The site provides a guide to different research opportunities, sign-posting to mentoring, internships, funding and training.
Nursing and midwifery research careers advisory service
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Nursing and Midwifery Incubator, in partnership with the NIHR Research Design Service (RDS), is pleased to announce with the launch a virtual careers advisory service to support nurses and midwifes to start and advance their clinical academic research careers. The pilot service will run over the next 12 months to learn how best to offer this service and make a decision if it merits national roll out.
For further information please follow this link
Royal College of Physicians research and innovation hub
The Royal College of Physicians has launched a research and innovation hub where they are collating practical resouces to support clinicians to become involved in research.
For further information please follow this link
Are you interested in;
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Learning more about the research projects that are happening within the Trust |
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Offering your service users the opportunity to participate in research projects |
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Getting involved in high quality research, either as a participant or a researcher |
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Career development opportunities in research such as training and qualifications |
The research interest group is an informal networking meeting open to all staff with an interest in research. Meetings are held quarterly, and will be virtual for the forseeable future. There is also an e-mail group where information on courses and development opportunities are circulated.
The next meeting will be: TBC
For more information or to be added to the e-mail group, please contact:
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast: Health and care across the life course theme meeting
Wednesday 26 May 2021 12.00pm - 01.30pm
To register for this event please follow this link.