What is the PRIDES Hub?

The priority areas of Hub activity are to develop:

• A business-as-usual (BAU) delivery model

• High profile primary study support

• RRDN workforce capacity building (workforce development)

• External and internal communications

• EC&E activities 

• Research codes and text messaging 

• Stakeholder engagement (e.g. GP system suppliers, NHSX)

• Network readiness for commercial offers

The Hub will work with the RDMs in each RDN to identify three groups of people: a) RRDN staff who already have IT skills that could be applied to PRIDES work, b) GPs or GP practice staff who are skilled in this area and are research-active, and c) staff who would be interested in developing those skills in order to support research activity.  

These activities would enable them to start delivering work in each of the four work streams described in the Hub Operational Manual, by collaborating with staff in the RRDNs, determining learning and development needs, providing immediate support for RRDNs in which there is a skills gap, facilitating development of training and learning materials and the communication routes needed to make them widely visible and accessible, and providing a central development, quality assurance and test site identification service for the RDN.

Although precise details are yet to be confirmed, it has been pointed out that Industry sponsors could be charged a fee for the service which could subsidise the work carried out for non-commercial studies.