The Health Survey Clinic taking bookings for 1 Day On-Site Workshops
30/01/12: The Health Survey Clinic are taking bookings for two on-site workshops that researchers may find useful. "Designing a Patient Experience Questionnaire" will give delegates the opportunity to learn and discuss the key stages in designing a questionnaire. "Designing and Running Clinical Trials" provides a guide to best practice, research ethics and succesful participant recruitment in Clinical Trials. For further information, please visit the Health Survey Clinic's website, at www.healthsurveyclinic.co.uk
Deadline for Contingency Funding Applications approaching
19/01/12: The deadline for contingency funding applications (service support and infrastructure support costs) is the last Monday of every month. Please contact Talha Farrukh for further information, by sending an email to talha.farrukh@nhs.net
NoCLoR to host a Free Oral and Dental Half-Day Conference in April
10/01/12: On Thursday April 19th, NoCLoR and the Central East London CLRN are hosting a free event for dentists in North, Central and East London. The half-day conference will focus on the Dental Contract and how dentists can be involved in the development of an evidence base relevant to practice. Registration and a buffet lunch will begin at 13.30 at the Hamilton House Conference Centre, Mabeldon Place, London WC1H 9BD. For further information, please click here.
Course on monitoring clinical research
10/01/12: Siobhan Lim Consulting are taking bookings for a course on monitoring non-commercial research studies. For further information, please visit http://siobhanlimconsulting.co.uk/#/monitoring/4549568428
Applications being taken for places on new NIHR programme aiming to help researchers gain funding
10/01/12: The i4i Life Sciences Accelerator programme has bee designed to help researchers in their funding applications. Courses will be taking place from 15th February - 17th February and from March 6th - March 7th. For further information, please visit http://www.ccf.nihr.ac.uk/i4i/Pages/i4iAcceleratorProg.aspx
Changes to Governance Arrangements for Research Ethics Committees
31/08/11: From September 1st, there will be no legal requirement for researchers to gain NHS ethics approval for studies involving NHS staff as the only participants. NHS Permission still needs to be sought from the relevant R&D department for these studies.
Research Study Findings Accepted for Publication
22/08/11: An article has been published based on the findings of a research study which NoCLoR contributed funds towards. The article for the study, titled "A population-based audit of ethnicity and breast cancer risk in one general practice catchment area in North London, UK: implications for practice", can be viewed here. A further study by the same research team, looking at adult female patients' extended family histories of breast and other cancers in the same population, has also been accepted for publication This article will be available here when it is published.
Research Skills Training - Good Clinical Practice
12/07/11: On Monday 11 July at the Hamilton House Conference Centre (NUT Building), NoCLoR offered a free Good Clinical Practice training session. Thanks to all those who presented and attended the event.
SciTech Innovation UK Conference
30/06/11: On Wednesday 26 October 2011 from 08:30 - 17:10, the 4th annual SciTech: Innovation UK conference is being held at the Barbican, London. The conference will outline how UK science and research can strive for excellence and be at the frontier of research and economic growth. For further information on the event, including delegate ticket prices, please visit http://www.cvent.com/events/scitech-innovation-uk/event-summary-c2bfe270f4e94e85973c43355221be07/aspx.nihr.ac.uk/sdobriefingseminar.html
Report on Pharmacist Conference
07/05/11: On 5-6 May, NoCLoR funded two Community Pharmacists to attend the Health Services Research and Pharmacy Conference at the University of East Anglia. One of these pharmacists, Rachael Patel, kindly wrote a report on the event, looking at the importance of research for pharmacy, which can be viewed here.
Change to NoCLoR email addresses
05/05/11: From May 6th, any emails sent to r&d.noclor@camdenpct.nhs.uk will no longer be accessible. Please send any enquiries to contact.noclor@nhs.net instead. In addition, all email addresses for individual staff at NoCLoR that ended @camdenpct.nhs.uk will no longer be accessible, as they have also been replaced with email addresses ending @nhs.net.
Research Skills Training Event
15/04/11: On March 31st, NoCLoR organised a free event for any staff with an interest in research working or associated with North and West London Trusts. The course offered a practical guide to Good Clinical Practice in research. Thanks to Merryn Collard for presenting, and to all those who attended the event.
NoCLoR to conduct RM&G services for seven new trusts
11/04/11: NHS Newham, NHS Redbridge, NHS Barking & Dagenham, NHS Tower Hamlets, NHS Havering, NHS Waltham Forest, and City & Hackney TPCT have joined NoCLoR, who will be carrying out RM&G services for funded studies in these trusts.
Chancellor announces key role for health research in the Government's Plan for Growth
24/03/11: In yesterday's speech the Chancellor announced the publication of 'The Plan for Growth'. Section 2.179 onwards is relevant to the research community and can be found here. Please click here for a summary and the full paper.
New Academy report may affect future health research policy
24/01/11: The government has confirmed that the recommendations of the Academy of Medical Sciences new report "A new pathway for the regulation and governance of health research" will be carefully considered as a basis for future health research policy. For further details and a copy of the complete report, please click here.
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NoCLoR represents a consortium of NHS services across north and central London. Our aim is to promote and support high quality research in primary care and community and mental in this area. We are also responsible for providing research management and research governance in north central London.
What we do
Our focus is on promoting the best research in North Central London.
Our work is shaped by the Department of Health’s R&D Strategy Best Research for Best Health. Current local priorities and existing areas of research excellence include mental health, sexual health and primary care.
More specifically we:
Manage the research governance process for the Trusts. Our small team of governance experts aim to support all researchers through the legal requirements of project registration, and in their accountability for public funds, in the most straightforward and time-efficient manner possible.
Advise researchers on funding opportunities. We do this by providing expertise on accessing the new DH funding streams; by gathering intelligence about other monies available to support research such as special Trustee funds and charities; and by keeping the Trusts up to date on the changing landscape of national priorities.
Assist researchers and manager on the accurate costing of research projects.
Work alongside academic and service partners to ensure research activity is aligned with service priorities and to maximise advantages of sharing good practice.
Help researchers develop their skills in bidding for, managing and disseminating successful research. We do this by running training and development workshops and providing networking opportunities at our annual conference and other events.
Share good practice and maximise intelligence about research by working closely with national research networks for example the Mental Health Research Network and our Comprehensive Local Research Network. We also host the Primary Care Research Network (Greater London) PCRNGL and Dementias and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN).
Arrange commercial trials within the Trusts. All commercially sponsored clinical trials are managed through the R&D office. A set-up fee of £1000 is charged by the R&D office to deal with all aspects of the trial when using the Model Clinical Trials Agreement (mCTA) for pharmaceutical research. There will be a charge of £1500 when the mCTA is not used.
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