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Surgery LSG Seminar
The Essex & Hertfordshire Local Specialty Group for surgery research will be hosting an evening seminar to promote clinical studies in surgery on
Wednesday 25th April 2012 , 5pm – 7pm
at The ICENI Centre, Colchester General Hospital, Colchester, Essex, CO4 5JL
The evening will include a number of special guests, including a keynote speech by Professor Roger Motson, Consultant General Surgeon at Colchester General Hospital. Food and refreshments will be provided.
The evening promises to be a fantastic opportunity to raise awareness and promote best practice in surgical research studies across Essex and Hertfordshire. Further details will be distributed in due course, but in the meantime, please do make a note of the date in your diaries.
If you are interested in attending this event, please register your details with Adrian Lyne, Study Delivery Officer (Adrian.Lyne@colchesterhospital.nhs.uk). Also, if you are aware of any colleagues who might be interested in attending, please do forward this information on.
Best Practice Event 2012
The E&H CLRN 2012 Best Practice In Research Event was held on 2nd February 2012. It was attended by over 160 delegates.
26 Achievement Awards were presented on the day by Jacqueline Totterdell, Chair of the E&H CLRN Board.
The event comprised a programme of Interactive Workshops, Seminars and Master-classes and we will be publishing comments and suggestions from these on this website shortly.
Local GCP Training
In addition to the National GCP Training organised by the NIHR CRN, local courses are also available for those who work with NIHR Portfolio research in the Essex & Hertfordshire area.
For bookings or for course detail please click here. (Note, you will need access to the LMS system to use this link).
If you do not have access to LMS or have any further queries, please contact Cait.Goodall@westessexpct.nhs.uk or one of our local trainers.
For a list of the local trainers and their contact details please click here
To find out about national training click here
Advice relating to NIHR Research in Essex and Hertfordshire - An open invitation
If you would like advice relating to your research study, such as R&D application, recruitment to time and target, research site initiation, requirement for NHS Letters of Access, research skills training availability etc, then you can contact your local E&H CLRN Office or ring into our weekly study delivery meetings. NHS Trusts' departments and services could also use this teleconference as an opportunity to get advice about studies they are approached about or to find out how CLRN can assist them in meeting regulatory compliance and compiling evidence relating to research for Quality Accounts.
This is also an opportunity for the NIHR Topic Networks and PCRN staff to keep in touch with the CLRN about general and arising matters relating to studies that are hosted by the local Trusts.
The telephone conferences are now held 12:00-12:30 and
will take place every Wednesday from 8th June 2011.
To take part , please simply pre book a slot by contacting
Elaine Anderson on: Elaine.Anderson@northeastessex.nhs.uk or 01206 288251
Details of your local CLRN Office can be found here
http://www.crncc.nihr.ac.uk/about_us/ccrn/essex_herts/rmg/rmg_contacts
E&H CLRN Joint Staff Meeting held on 23rd June 2011
Many thanks to all who had contributed to the CLRN Joint Staff meeting and to Gill Hibbins and Elaine Anderson for organising the day. 67 delegates attended on the day. Key agenda for the meeting was working in Cluster Teams. The particular focus was on the local research teams who used real studies examples for discussing effective set up and support for research.
All teams were asked to map out study milestones and to identify local expertise, capacity and to review potential risks and barriers to successful progress of their chosen study. Also, to watch out for any duplication of efforts within the team to then translate any ‘lessons learnt’ and good practice into their local approaches, systems and processes.
After the event, all teams will be monitoring progress of their chosen studies to ensure these recruit their 1st research participant within 70 days from the valid R&D application received by RMG staff.
Presentations and photographs from the day are available in the Document Library.
The next Joint Staff Meeting will be held on 24th Nov 2011. Please send your suggestions for the agenda to clrn@northeastessex.nhs.uk
The Local Enhanced Service
This scheme is available to primary care teams to enable them to develop an infrastructure for research and funds protected time to enable increased participation of the local NHS and its service users in NIHR CRN Portfolio studies.
There are three steps to access different levels of funding and support according to experience and track record with recruitment to the NIHR CRN Portfolio.
Applications are welcomed throughout the year and will be assessed through a competitive process (please see application form for details). The first step is automatic for all new NIHR research recruitment sites.
For further information please contact:
Tracey Johns T: 01206 288260 (mobile: 0790 803 6875)
E: tracey.johns@northeastessex.nhs.uk or
Carol Keel, Primary Care T: 01992 566130 (mobile: 0792 025 2185)
E: carol.keel@westessexpct.nhs.uk
or go to our document library.
Raising public awareness of NIHR primary care health research: Customised waiting room screen presentations
Essex and Hertfordshire CLRN is currently piloting the use of DVD presentations to run on TV screens in patient waiting areas in General Practices. These presentations include generic information to help raise public awareness to benefits of participating in high quality health research. In addition, each DVD includes a bespoke section of the presentation introducing the research team within the practice and some of the studies that the individual practices are currently involved in.
Ambrose Surgery in Colchester, Essex was the first surgery to test this concept for us and the pilot presentation.
View the 'Raising public awareness of NIHR primary care health research' pilot presentation (PPT file, 10.2 MB)
If you are involved in NIHR Clinical Research Network studies and have a TV screen in your waiting room we would be delighted to include you in our pilot by creating a DVD to promote your research team and studies that you are recruiting to. For more information, please contact:
Tracey Johns, Primary Care Study Coordinator
T: 0790 803 6875
E: tracey.johns@northeastessex.nhs.uk or
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