How do the UKCRN and DeNDRoN benefit the healthcare industry?
Introdution:
Introdution:
The
UKCRN is tasked with developing a world-class infrastructure to
ensure that high-quality research funded by both commercial and
non-commercial organisations receives the support it needs to
succeed.
Such support will include investment in the
expansion of dedicated clinical research staff within the NHS, and
the development of standard procedures to ensure consistent best
practice at network study sites through both study set up and
conduct.
The UKCRN has established a dedicated Industry team
to address the specific challenges and pressures faced by the
healthcare industry in successfully delivering their research and
development projects through the NHS. The UKCRN Industry team is
working closely with the healthcare industries, the Department of
Health, and NHS Trusts in identifying barriers to the delivery of
clinical research in the UK, and formulating solutions and strategies
to overcome these.
UKCRN Services
Some of the
services which the UKCRN are developing to assist the healthcare
industry include:
A
‘rapid-access, single point of access’ to the comprehensive
healthcare research infrastructure within the UK
The capacity to
provide prompt and reliable assessment of study feasibility through
well established links with network study sites
Facilitation of study
site activation through the use of standardised agreements and
costing processes for studies adopted by the networks
Rapid patient
recruitment and delivery of high quality data for clinical studies
across the full range of medical conditions, including rare diseases
Guided access for
companies to the array of clinical and healthcare research expertise
available in the UK
Accelerated
product development through successive well established
collaborations