London (S) Strategic Fund: Round one bids announced
22 March 2011
Recently the CLRN have agreed a new model for distributing funding. A strategic fund, amounting to 5% of the overall network budget in year 1 will be top sliced, with an /Images/Strategic fund.jpg)
increase to 10% and then 15% in years 2 and 3. This will allow bids to be received spanning more than one financial year, to an overall maximum of £200,000.
The strategic fund will be used to allow investment in new and innovative ideas and ways of working to increase recruitment within the sector.
The first round of funding has now been completed. A total of 30 bids were received requesting a total of £4,459,962 over a three year period.
We look forward to receiving more innovative bids at the next funding round.
Successful bids summary
| King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Cancer | Clinical Trials Clinic for patients with Myeloma & CLL spanning a number of Trusts |
| King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Hepatology
Specialty Group | To expand recruitment to hepatology studies, particularly outside the two regional units of King’s and St George’s Hospital |
| Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust | Musculoskeletal Specialty Group | To expand recruitment to a number of MSK studies that can be opened in sites across south London |
| Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust/ South London Healthcare | DGH Development | Research nurse partly to recruit to portfolio studies between the four hospital sites, but also to have a mentoring and training role |
| Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust | Primary Care Research Network - Greater London | To increase recruitment to PCT studies that require specific research nurse input |
| King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Diabetes/long term conditions | To expand recruitment in primary care |
| Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust | Dermatology Specialty Group | To have a facilitator to work across south London to increase dermatology trial recruitment across all sites |
| St. George’s Healthcare Foundation Trust | MCRN/ Paediatric Specialty Group | To expand recruitment to paediatric studies within south London. Including addressing repatriation issues |
| St. George’s Healthcare Foundation Trust | SE Stroke Research Network | Additional research staff to cover repatriated
patients and to grow non acute stroke research at non HASU sites |
| King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Cancer/ Palliative Care | To expand recruitment in palliative care. Expanding this to new sites and also to other disease areas outside cancer |
