How do the NIHR and DeNDRoN benefit the healthcare industry?
The
NIHR 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 NIHR 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 NIHR 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.
NIHR Services
Some of the
services which the NIHR 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