Research Delivery Workforce Update

Research Delivery Team Essentials (RDTE)* & Informed Consent 

We offer a Research Delivery Team (RDT) specific learning pathway to our Partners - scheduled by the line manager, in alignment with how it is offered. 

• RDTE is designed to underline the first 3-4 months of development & plan for the next few months ahead - and is a course that necessitates line manager nomination. It maps to the Integrated Workforce Framework at either Awareness or Core level for all topics. RDTE Course outline. 

• "Informed Consent" is an additional course to the consent component of RDTE, specifically for those who will seek consent - so should be undertaken after RDTE. It forms part of the Consent Training Pathway.  The Informed Consent Course outline can be explored for more info. 

Nominations for Training

We need to be able to schedule these training courses according to demand. Please send us a request via this RDTE and Informed Consent Line Manager Nomination Form to let us know if you have a new starter in post who needs to access RDTE and possibly Informed Consent.  

We will then send them a welcome message and will make contact when a place for Essentials becomes available.  Places will be prioritised based on time in role, balanced against when nomination was received.

Important Update around Introduction to GCP

Please note that Introduction to GCP can now ONLY be completed online (i.e. will no longer be offered as a face to face option).

Introducing a new course - GCP Consolidation 

To supplement this, a NEW half-day consolidation session has been created so that once staff have completed the online training, they can come together in the classroom, (or virtual will be available in future), to work through the principles in practice.  They do not get a 'GCP certificate' for this as they will already have one from the online course.  However, there will be 2 CPD points available for participating in this session.

Bookings for this course are through the Good Clinical Practice (GCP) 2023-24 pages on NIHR Learn.  

If you think your Trust need to put a session on, please speak to your R&D department in the first instance, who can get in contact with ourselves at the usual address: learning.lcrnsnorthwest@nihr.ac.uk

Principal Investigator Training

Offered as part of a PI Pathway. Please make sure you read the course descriptions before booking to ensure you have the relevant experience required for the sessions.  These run alternatively approximately every 6 weeks and are mainly being held virtually.

• Becoming a PI - next available date: 9th Feb, virtually  (register your interest via the link below)

• PI Essentials - next available date 11th April, virtually (register your interest via the link below)

Dates for our PI training programmes can be found within our North West PI Training pages on NIHR Learn, along with the booking form to register your interest in the sessions.   Keep a look out for new dates coming on regularly.

CRP North West / Regional Update

You can visit the North West CRP webpage. Within this page, there is the opportunity to sign up to a mailing list to connect you with both the regional and national CRP Engagement Leads.

North West CRP Online Community of Practice -  The next date is Thursday 14th March, 2-4, please register an interest via the webpage above.

North West CRP Confirmers Community of Practice

This group consists of organisational clinical delivery leads or their nominated representatives.  Any queries - learning.lcrnsnorthwest@nihr.ac.uk

Resources to use with your colleagues and students

We wanted to provide you with easy access to some of the resources you might want to consider using with your students, or colleagues who may be interested in becoming more research active. 

• On NIHR Learn, the Research Engagement Collaborative pages include things like the NHS Engagement Toolkit

• The new NIHR "Transforming Lives Through Research" video

• Archive of the Research for the Future newsletters