The Research Reset programme closed in late 2023/ early 2024, with 80% of open studies on the NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN)* Portfolio delivering to time and target. This was a huge exercise to clean up the data. We, together with the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England, want to thank everyone in the R&D community for their tremendous efforts in this achievement.
We are now leading a transformative programme of work which will build on the success of Research Reset. It will bring together the people, systems and processes to further cement and evolve our ways of working with sponsors and their delegates.
The programme will focus on two main areas:
Transforming the approach to NIHR RDN Portfolio Oversight.
Improve start-up and initiation services.
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Throughout the Research Reset programme, we asked sponsors and their delegates to use the Reset Online Tool to update us at the NIHR RDN about their study progress. We received a lot of feedback about the usability of the tool.
Following this feedback we have co-designed a new Sponsor Engagement Tool with stakeholders. It has undergone extensive user testing to ensure it enables sponsors and their delegates to efficiently and effectively manage their studies and provide NIHR CRN with study updates, in line with the recently published Terms and Conditions for NIHR CRN support.
The new tool is available now. Any previous assessments provided on the Reset Online Tool will have been transferred over. You will be asked to provide study assessments every three months.
Please login as soon as possible to familiarise yourself with the new Tool, and provide assessments for any listed studies that may need updating.
* The NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN) is soon to become the Research Delivery Network (RDN).