Making research core business in the NHS
Your business is our business. We can help your Trust to engage in research activity.
The NIHR Clinical Research Network provides an embedded research infrastructure which increases the research capacity of the NHS. It works with Trusts to increase patients recruited into studies and to deliver quick set up times for clinical studies.
If you're thinking about engaging in research activity talk to your lead CLRN.
Success stories
We're keen to identify best practice and recognise those Trusts already making great strides in developing research capability within their institutions. We did this for the first time by launching, this year, the HSJ Research Culture Award - a jointly sponsored award with the Health Services Journal for organisations that demonstrated a step change in research culture.
Creating a research culture: A research nurse's blogKerry Stott is a research nurse in the team that won the HSJ Research Culture Award 2011 – Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. The team engaged their Trust's senior leadership, developed their research and development strategy and worked with NIHR partners showing that embedding research as core business can be done.
Read Kerry's blog to find how it works in practice.
Bradgate SurgeryThe only individual General Practice shortlisted in the HSJ Awards, for their entry “Research Resuscitated: How one practice breathed life into the concept of primary care research". Dr Jason Victory explains how they did it and what it has meant for their practice.
