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Clinical Research Explained
Research and clinical trials are an everyday part of the work done in the NHS. Research doesn’t always involve staying or visiting hospital or a GP practice - important research can be done without leaving home, or can be supported by giving your permission for spare blood from routine tests to be used for research. Common types of research include:
Infrastructure
Scotland operates a centralised system to support clinical research and improve quality, efficiency and coordination. Working on a pan-Scotland basis a responsive infrastructure has been implemented to encourage researchers to bring studies to Scotland and ensure that obtaining R&D permission is a smooth and rapid process. Investments in nationwide clinical research infrastructure also supports researchers,...
Get Involved
Glasgow Clinical Research Facility (GCRF) believes in a model of integrated public engagement, patient involvement and research participation – by working together to improve healthcare through research. It is our aim to make research involvement as accessible as possible and have a wide range of patients and public/lay representatives to steer our research and support researchers to identify and conduct high-quality clinical research. Learn more about participating in res...
Amanda Cardy
Resources
Patient resources Blood Cancer UK A blood cancer charity offering information and support to people affected by blood cancer, including leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma and other blood cancer types. Written with expert medical professionals and also people affected by blood...
Attributing the costs of health research (AcoRD guidance)
Research should be viewed as a core function of the NHS and the NHS throughout the UK is committed to promoting and conducting research to improve current and future health & social wellbeing and to improve NHS patient care services. While the NHS must play its full part in supporting research it is important that the cost of that research is identified and properly funded. Scotland follows the UK–wide
Training and Events
The Network try to ensure a presence at relevant events across the country and share training opportunities of interest to the primary care research community. The Network is not responsible for the content on external pages.
NRS Central Management Team
General Enquiries communications@nrs.org.uk 0141 343 8737 General ManagerCharles Wellercharles.weller@nrs.org.uk Head of Communications and EngagementFiona FlemingFiona.fleming@nrs.org.uk Information and Quality ManagerI...
Care Home Research Accessible Summaries
We aim to enable researchers to share findings, raise awareness, and bridge the gap between “everyday practice” and academia. An accessible summary is a short piece of content used to explain research to members of the public. By co-creating these summaries, we can foster the outreach of wider academics and/or care home researchers to engage with people with lived experience by sharing findings and showcasing these outputs to have lasting impacts. We have integrated media tools (
Resources
Research Links ISD Scotland Involve Mental Health Welfare Commission for Scotland People in Research Royal College of Psychiatrists
