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The Education team works closely with our partners in the NHS, Higher Education Institutes and Research & Development departments to provide a service that is tailored to meet the needs of researchers and associated staff. We collaborate with education staff in CRF's across the UK and with colleagues at the NIHR to ensure a cohesive and standardised programme of educational opportunities are available to researchers. If you have any questions regarding the education programm...

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NHS Research Scotland Mental Health Annual Scientific Meeting 2023

'Healthy Connections: from Cells to Society' This year we are hosting a hybrid event, with the opportunity to join us in person at the venue, or virtually online. Anyone interested and involved with mental health research in Scotland can attend. Regis...

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Our Staff

SDRN Executive Group members Professor Rory McCrimmon NRS Diabetes Lead Clinician Professor Rory McCrimmon trained at the University of Edinburgh and completed his clinical and speciality training in the South-East of Scotland before becoming an NHS Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology at University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, in 2000. In 2002, he joined the faculty at Yale University, Connecticut, to further develop his basic research in the central regulatio...

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Making Care Home Research Accessible

What is RICH Voices? Research In Care Homes (RICH) Voices is the equivalent of a Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) group for ENRICH Scotland.  PPI is a method of including people in decisions about research and related activities. Instead of professionals making all the choices, PPI combines experiences, opinions, and ideas of the people who might be affected the findings of research. Our key aim is to collaborate with people living and working i...

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Name of organisation NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde R&D Population 1.31 million Annual prescriptions 17 million Annual in patient visits 0.5 million Annual out patient visits 1.32 million Interim (acting) Research and Innovation Director Chloe Cowan Address Research &am...

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Electronic Signature

NRS welcomes efficient methods of document transfer in the research approvals and study set-up process. Applications for RECs and HRA Approval are made electronically from IRAS, and applications to CAG should be made by email. Applications in IRAS have electronic authorisation. Other documents may include electronic signatures. NRS does not require ink signatures on any re...

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Glasgow Clinical Research Facility

The Glasgow Clinical Research Facility (GCRF) was established in 2006 with funding from the Scottish Government via the Chief Scientist Office. It provides state-of-the-art research space across several geographical sites including the £5million Clinical Research Facility at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus.  The Service provided by the CRF embeds research into clinical practice, ensuring that clinical research is a cornerstone of patient-centred healthcare develop...

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Sustainable PPI in Co-designing Dundee Dental Hospital and Research School (DDH&RS)

Following a scoping exercise of patient and public involvement (PPI) activity across the hospital and research school, it became apparent that activity was limited to NIHR funded trials and a handful of individual research projects. With support from leadership teams across the Dundee Dental Hospital and Research School (DDH&RS) a more extensive programme of patient and public involvement activity was actioned. Here we reflect on progress and next steps. First Patient and P...

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Take Part in Current Research

Each year in Scotland more than 1500 clinical research studies take place, involving over 30,000 patients.  Taking part in research can offer many benefits. It may provide access to new tre...

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Get Involved

The Stroke Network believes that active patient and public involvement is needed if it is to encourage research which directly benefits and reflects the needs and views of patients and the public. The Network is committed to: Including patients, carers and the public's perspectives within all stroke research activity Facilitating patients, carers and the public to be involved at all stages of the research process, from inception to reporting through to implementat...

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