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Glasgow Clinical Research Facility

The Glasgow Clinical Research Facility (GCRF) was established in 2006 with funding from the Scottish Government via the Chief Scientist Office. It provides state-of-the-art research space across several geographical sites including the £5million Clinical Research Facility at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus.  The Service provided by the CRF embeds research into clinical practice, ensuring that clinical research is a cornerstone of patient-centred healthcare develop...

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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. ...

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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...

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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.

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Sustainable PPI in Co-designing Dundee Dental Hospital and Research School (DDH&RS)

Following a scoping exercise of patient and public involvement (PPI) activity across the hospital and research school, it became apparent that activity was limited to NIHR funded trials and a handful of individual research projects. With support from leadership teams across the Dundee Dental Hospital and Research School (DDH&RS) a more extensive programme of patient and public involvement activity was actioned. Here we reflect on progress and next steps. First Patient and P...

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Course Browse

The Education team works closely with our partners in the NHS, Higher Education Institutes and Research & Development departments to provide a service that is tailored to meet the needs of researchers and associated staff. We collaborate with education staff in CRF's across the UK and with colleagues at the NIHR to ensure a cohesive and standardised programme of educational opportunities are available to researchers. If you have any questions regarding the education programm...

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Research Ethics Structure in Scotland

Research Ethics Service Annual Reports for Scotland are available to download here: April 2021 - March 2024 April 2019 - March 2020

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Our Staff

NHS Research Scotland Cancer Research Network, Clinical Lead Prof Jeff Evans j.evans@beatson.gla.ac.uk Professor Jeff Evans is Professor of Translational Cancer Research, School of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow; Honorary Consultant in Med...

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Get Involved

The Stroke Network believes that active patient and public involvement is needed if it is to encourage research which directly benefits and reflects the needs and views of patients and the public. The Network is committed to: Including patients, carers and the public's perspectives within all stroke research activity Facilitating patients, carers and the public to be involved at all stages of the research process, from inception to reporting through to implementat...

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Get Involved

As a member of the public, NRS Primary Care has a number of different ways for you to get involved We have a number of actively recruiting studies that you may find of interest We have a Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Group based in Glasgow This group meets to advise health researchers and NRS Primary Care on all aspects of the research process, including the materials used during research studies. We welcome patients, carers and me...

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