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ENRICH Scotland
Enabling Research in Care Homes Improving the lives and health of people living in care homes is a major priority, but care home residents are generally underrepresented in research studies. Enabling Research in Care Homes (ENRICH) aims to change this by strengthening support for research outside the NHS. ...
What Happens to my Tissue?
Often doctors need to remove tissue as part of your treatment, for example during a surgical operation. Alternatively, they might take a small sample to help them find out what might be wrong with you (tissue collected for this reason is called a 'biopsy'). The samples that the NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Biorepository Network collects is material that is removed during a patient's routine clinical procedure, and which is surplus after all the necessary diagnostic tests have been concluded. O...
Ageing
The NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Ageing Specialty Group's role is to support the delivery of high quality clinical research relevant to the care of older people. We help to manage participant recruitment to time and target, both for studies which are led from Scotland, and studies led from other nations which Scottish sites are participating in. We provide support in the following areas: Managing the study portfolio record Monitoring the attainment of rec...
Dr Maria Drummond
Infectious Diseases Event Resources
Infectious Diseases Research Day 2025 The NHS Research Scotland Infectious Diseases event will be held on Tuesday 16 September at the V&A, Dundee This event is for all members of the Infection research team, including trainees, consultants, nurses and lab teams. Find out more about registration, abstract submission...
UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research
This policy framework sets out principles of good practice in the management and conduct of health and social care research in the UK. These principles protect and promote the interests of patients, service users and the public in health and social care research, by describing ethical conduct and proportionate, assurance-based management of h...
Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Guidance and Training
Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Guidance and Training contains information for patients and professionals on how to get the most out of working with the public, as well as links to training courses for those looking to get involved in running PPI groups. Patient Public Involvement Engagement guidance comes from a number of sources, including NIHR and Chief Scientist Office (CSO) policy documents, grey literature, and blog posts.
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...
Venue
The conference will be held at the Teaching and Learning Centre, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus, 1345 Govan Road, Govan, Glasgow, G51 4TF. The venue is fully accessible. Group Transport To support delegates to attend the conference and encourage sustainability, complimentary group transport has been offered. Coaches will depa...
Scotland’s health informatics capabilities
Scotland has one of the most highly developed health informatics systems in the world and a long tradition of using linked health service data for research including: Evaluating interventions to deliver patient benefit Measuring long-term outcomes in clinical trials Assessing the safety of new medical interventions Supporting understanding of patterns of health and illness across the whole population. Few other countries have systems that...
