Brierley Park Medical Group is a forward thinking and progressive GP practice that operates across two sites – Huthwaite and Skegby

sarah.shelton1@nhs.net or nnicb-nn.c84077@nhs.net

Principal Investigators

Dr Vibhore Prasad is an academic GP, experienced in research and delivering studies in Primary Care. He is associated with the University of Nottingham (UoN) and King’s College London, has a Masters in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, and a PhD from UoN.

Dr Gavin Lunn is a GP Partner and Sub-Investigator. He has a vast amount of research experience and has carried out successful research studies for many years at Brierley Park Medical Centre. He regularly acts as Sub-PI for our studies and his interests within the practice include Palliative Care, Mental Health, Men’s Health and Minor Surgery & Injections.

Senior Primary Care Research Nurse

Sarah Shelton is a Senior Primary Care Research Nurse for Mid-Nottinghamshire. Sarah works across Primary and Secondary care and supports collaborations across the two.

Specialties

Due to being located in an ex-mining community we have a high prevalence of respiratory illnesses therefore we specialise in Respiratory studies and have a respiratory practice nurse. We also recruit well to Mental Health, Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease studies.

Also, our lead GP for research has a keen interest in adolescent mental health.

Patient Population

Located in an ex-mining community
We have 18,000 registered patients
Please find a breakdown of our patient demographic here (for Brierley Park Medical Centre) and here (for Skegby Family Medical Centre)

Facilities and assets

We have several consulting rooms at each of our sites
2 temperature controlled and monitored clinical refrigerators
We have access to a wide range of equipment for the delivery of your study
Space available for monitoring visits and supervised remote monitoring
Supervised monitor access to our electronic patient records
Our Electronic Medical Record (EMR) platform is SystmOne
We can easily run searches within our clinical database to identify eligible patients
Experience with virtual/decentralised delivery, including remote consent
Pharmacy located within the Huthwaite site, and established working relationships with pharmacists across both sites

Staff

PI, medical Sub-Investigator and Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Primary Care Research Nurse connected to the practice group
4 Clinical Pharmacists
Research Data Manager and experience Research Administrators
All key staff including administrators are GCP trained
Our whole practice team are able to support research
Staff available to support monitoring visits
Dedicated research time

Study set-up

Feasibility can be confirmed within 1 week
From draft contract to fully executed contract in 2 weeks (often within shorter timelines)
We are a flexible practice group and can set up studies in a timely manner
SOPs are available upon request
We have experience in delivering CTIMPs, observational studies, medical and digital device studies

Active GP Teaching Practice Group

We are an active GP teaching practice group and hold training sessions relating to research for F2s and speciality trainees from ours and neighbouring practices to attend.

"I was able to take part in a study to enhance public health, which also monitored my health."

Primary Care research participant, East Midlands

96% of participants in Primary Care research studies in the East Midlands say that they would consider taking part in research again

"I learned a lot of different things. It gave me confidence and I enjoyed it very much."

Primary Care research participant, East Midlands

Experience

We were one of the top recruiting sites for a Mental Health medical device study in 2021, recruiting 25 participants
Experienced in clinical trials with data extraction directly from our EMR
We have been heavily involved in several Serology studies

Collaborations

We have an established close collaboration with the research department at Sherwood Forest Hospitals with a dedicated research nurse to work across both sites.

We also have a Senior Primary Care Research Nurse for Mid-Notts with the aim to increase primary care research across the region.

We are part of a group of Primary Care sites in the East Midlands that are interested in expanding the Commercial Portfolio and regularly meet to support each other to set up and deliver studies.

Talk to the CRNEM about delivering your study in primary care, contact us at: supportmystudyeastmidlands@nihr.ac.uk

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