Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Commercial Capabilities

SPECIALIST SERVICES

• Neuro-rehabilitation (Haywood)

• Stroke rehabilitation

• Full range of adult and children's mental health services including learning disabilities, neuro-psychology, eating disorders and mother and baby units; dementia services; rheumatology

• Musculoskeletal (MSK), prison services, adult physical health services including sexual health and dental services

• We are able to deliver at venues across the geography of the Trust, and in particular that we have our facility at Cheadle to engage with harder to reach rural populations

SPECIALIST FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT

• Able to deliver clinical trials requiring -80 freezer / centrifuge / sample processing

• Bone densitometry; imaging provided for services across MPFT by neighboring acute Trusts

CHIEF INVESTIGATOR/PRINCIPAL  INVESTIGATOR EXPERTISE

• CI's leading Mental Health, Global Health and MSK programmes

• PIs across range of projects from primary care, mental health, vaccine studies, MSK , physical and mental health

• Scope to develop new PIs with mentorship from our experienced PIs and in-house training programme

AREAS KEEN TO GROW

• Huge potential within mental health and dementia services to develop our clinical trial portfolio

• Growing research across nursing and allied health professionals, social work, public health, primary care and global health

• Scope to grow research activity across all areas of the Trust

RECRUITMENT ACHIEVEMENTS 

• We have achieved the First Global/UK patient within our commercial rheumatology clinical trials

• Dedicated administrative and data management team can ensure CRF entry within 3 working days, or in line with sponsor requirement. Study set-up can be expedited, e.g. this has been achieved in the past for urgent public health studies

OTHER KEY INFORMATION

• Excellent performance against recruitment to time and target. The only community Trust to have led the delivery of COVID vaccine trials

• Uniquely placed to recruit from both secondary and primary care

• Experienced research delivery team with active rater programme within rheumatology, mental health and dementia

• We have engaged with non NHS sector (schools, prisons, care homes, hospices) to deliver research

• We have also engaged with primary care, using GP practices to successfully recruit to vaccine and community studies

• We support Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust with their R&I function, which brings opportunities for collaborative working

Research 

Team