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Shelley on delivering the FIRST study in south London
We spoke to Shelley Campbell, who has a background in Physiotherapy, but now works as a Clinical Research Practitioner with the NIHR Clinical Research Network South London at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. She is currently working on the FIRST …
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Cervical cancer prevention week: aiming to increase smear testing in older women
For Cervical Cancer Prevention Week, one researcher describes how a clinical trial, which recruited participants exclusively from North Thames GP practices, could point the way to increasing cervical cancer screening uptake in older women. Dr Anita Lim, …
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Championing research studies in Whitleigh, Plymouth
We have been working with communities to try and improve the number of people who know about and who get involved in health and care research, as well as broaden the range of backgrounds and communities that research participants come from. In September …
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CRN Greater Manchester Core Team blog series: Clinical Directors
Martin and I are the Co-Clinical Directors for the Clinical Research Network (CRN) Greater Manchester. However it is often not clear to others what we do and what the role includes. As well as being part of the CRN senior management team, we also get …
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CRN Greater Manchester Core Team blog series: Director of Nursing
A bit of background about myself for those of you who don’t know me as well as others do! I have worked at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) for 29 years and within research for 24 years. I qualified in 1994 as a registered nurse and …
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CRN Greater Manchester Core Team blog series: Engagement and work in the community
As you’ll probably know, healthcare research has taken place in secondary care settings such as hospitals for a long time. There have been amazing studies we have seen in the news and their findings which have been the subject of national attention, as …
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CRN Greater Manchester Core Team Blog Series: Engagement in Primary Care
Primary care includes GP practices, pharmacies, dental surgeries, and community ophthalmologists, and therefore provides numerous opportunities for research to take place in a location that is convenient and accessible for local people. Furthermore, the …
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CRN Greater Manchester core team blog series: Join Dementia Research Project Officer
Join Dementia Research is run by the NIHR in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Society. The service enables people to register their interest in participating in dementia research and be matched to suitable studies. Through Join Dementia Research, people …
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CRN Greater Manchester core team blog series: Study Support Service
We, in the study support service, are often asked what it is we do here at the Clinical Research Network Greater Manchester (CRN GM), this question is in some ways the easiest to answer yet at the same time the most difficult. Our role in the Study …
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CRN Greater Manchester core team blog series: The Workforce Learning and Development Team
The Workforce, Learning and Development Team are responsible for influencing, engaging and developing a skilled workforce to deliver high quality health and social care research across the North West. When we talk about the workforce, we don’t just mean …
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CRN Greater Manchester Core team blog series: Workforce, Learning and Development Team - Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement
As part of upholding our agreed team values, it's encouraged for everyone to play a role in engaging with the public through our day to day role or through additional opportunities such as research festivals and international celebration days. In …
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CRN South London's Direct Delivery Team promotes research in Peckham
CRN South London's Direct Delivery Team delivered a bi-lingual presentation at a community organisation to promote an NIHR-supported study aimed at helping women who have given birth manage weight. Our Clinical Research Nurse, Alba Vega Viyuela, provides …
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Embedding research in the emergency department
The emergency medicine research team at Barts Health NHS Trust recently won the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and NIHR award for making an outstanding contribution to NIHR portfolio studies across a three-year period from 2020-2022. Here, Senior ED …
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Exploring research in homecare services across Kent, Surrey and Surrey
I’m Kelly Wilson, CRN Kent, Surrey and Sussex Project Manager for exploring research in homecare services. I joined the CRN in December 2022, and previously worked in various roles in mental healthcare including project management with the Sussex ICS, …
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Grandson calls for south London volunteers for dementia research
Dementia Action Week (15-21 May) is an annual awareness-raising campaign. This year's theme is getting an earlier diagnosis of the condition. Lewis Deakin, a communications manager at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has written …
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Inspiring Sussex school students to pursue careers in healthcare and research
Cardinal Newman Catholic School in Hove reached out to its parents and the local community for volunteers to deliver sessions at a careers event. The aim was to give groups of students aged 14 to 15 years old an introduction to our area of work and an …
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science: "The community is a very special place."
Laura Jeffers, a community research nurse, is looking to meet more of her peers in the North Thames region and nationally. In this piece, Laura discusses her passion for research and how evidence-based practice is key to service improvement. A lot of …
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International Women's Day: "By supporting others, we build them up."
This International Women’s Day, we hear from Jo Morgan, clinical research facility operations director at Barts Health NHS Trust, about her career to date, the challenges she’s faced and the support she’s had. “I started my healthcare career in the …
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Kim shares her excitement about the new GCP Consolidation training
This is my first post as a GCP Programme Co-Lead with Anthony Homer and I’m really pleased to announce the launch of the new GCP Consolidation Training . In late March 2023, I attended the GCP facilitator meeting in Leeds, where we were given a …
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Learning resilience through the NIHR Advanced Leadership Programme (ALP)
The Advanced Leadership Programme (ALP) was created by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network to build a national network of clinical research delivery leaders with a strong emphasis on collaboration with …
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Reflections from the ICR GCP and Ethics Forum April 2024
Kirsty Rogers, CRN Wessex Education and Training Manager recently attended the Institute for Clinical Research GCP and Ethics Forum in London. Here she shares her thoughts on the day. In April 2024, I attended the ICR GCP & Ethics Forum- it was …
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Researchers’ Engagement with Care Homes
Nuno Santos Lopes is the Director of Research, Innovation and Community Engagement at Nightingale Hammerson. He is passionate about working in care homes, with dementia residents and in palliative care. In this blog, Nuno is revisiting the talk he gave at …
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Spreading the research message via walking football: CRN South West Peninsula and AgeUK Devon collaboration kicks off
Elly French, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Officer On Sunday 19 June, a small but committed team of intrepid ‘walking football naïve’ CRN SWP staff called the Research Rovers arrived to take part in the CRN SWP-sponsored AgeUK Devon …