Primary Care Study Support Service
What does the Primary Care Study Support Service Do?
The Primary Care Study Support Service helps researchers from across health and social care set up and delivery high quality research to time and target in the CRN West Midlands.
This service is provided for all studies eligible for CRN support, regardless of location, study type, size, therapy or research area.
Whether your study is diagnostic, medical, observational, pharmaceutical, public health, social care or wider care settings - we can help.
What does the service include?
Early contact and engagement with researchers
Dedicated support from research idea through to HRA & IRAS submission to include assistance with ETC applications and cost attribution.
Research management support
Provision of R&D service to our partner organisations including GP practices, hospices, care homes and community pharmacy. Assistance with HR agreements (research passports, letters of access, honorary research contracts).
Study set-up and delivery
Provision of support to identify and set up suitable sites including practical assistance and advice to maximise study recruitment.
Study performance monitoring
Maintain oversight of studies, troubleshoot and help to resolve performance issues
Research infrastructure and funding
Access to our team of Research Nurses, Research Facilitators and GP Research Champions. Provision of service support costs.
Training
Access to a dedicated primary care training programme including GCP, IRAS and AcoRD.
What are the benefits for studies eligible for CRN support?
Expert advice from a single point of contact
Advice and support on cost attribution following the DH AcoRD guidance,
Help identifying excess treatment costs, advice on their reduction, including support with completion of the Schedule of Events Cost Attribution Tool (SoECAT)
Identifying specific support required across the Research Delivery Pathway
Signposting to additional support e.g. the Research Design Service
Supporting HRA submission, completion of documents (Organisation Information Document / Schedule of Events), IRAS applications and HRA ready to recruit process
Introducing the Study Start Up and Delivery Tool to support participating sites with their Assess, Arrange and Confirm (AAC) processes
Advice as to whether there is capacity and capability to carry out your study in the NHS
Provide access to patients and public groups to give their perspective on your research
Identifying the service support infrastructure required for the study and access to NHS service support
Access to Network-funded research delivery staff to aid recruitment
Support for recruiting to time and target with active performance monitoring support
Contact us...
If your study is funded through open competition, peer-reviewed and of clear benefit to the NHS, then it is potentially eligible for inclusion in the NIHR CRN Portfolio. If you have a study at the research stage, grant application stage or beyond then please get in touch with a member of the team via our primary care inbox:
studysupportpc.crnwestmidlands@nihr.ac.uk
