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NIHR Funding Informanon 3
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4, 5
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NIHR Diagnosnc Evidence Cooperanve Leeds
Launch Event
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT)
and the University of Leeds have been
awarded funding to establish the NIHR
Diagnosuc Evidence Cooperauve Leeds
(NIHR DEC Leeds). The funding is based on
a foundauon of clinical excellence in liver,
renal, colorectal and musculoskeletal dis
ease areas alongside strong exisung collab
orauon across industry partners, LTHT and
the University of Leeds. The NIHR DEC
Leeds will facilitate the generauon of high
quality evidence of clinical validity, clinical
uulity, cost eecuveness and care pathway
benets of commerciallysupplied in vitro
medical devices (IVDs) in four main areas;
renal, liver, musculoskeletal and colorectal
diseases. The evaluauon of new and ex
isung diagnosuc tests will take a phased
approach, from assessing quality of evi
dence, relevance to NHS prioriues and
potenual economic benet, through to
evaluauon of clinical uulity and cost eec
uveness.
The NIHR DEC Leeds held its launch event
on 22 November 2013 at the Thackray
Medical Museum, Leeds...Connnues on
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SHEFFIELD Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundauon
Trust has ap
pointed Dr
Caroline Pick
stone as chief
operaung
ocer of the
Nauonal Insu
tute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical
Research Network for the Yorkshire and Hum
ber, which it is due to host from 1 April 2014.
The NIHR Clinical Research Network for the
Yorkshire and Humber is one of 15 networks
being set up across the country under a new
nauonal structure. It will play a key role in
helping more pauents to take part in research
studies that contribute towards improving
treatments by encouraging more research in
all clinical disease areas in the region.
Dr Pickstone will ensure that the Network's
acuviues across the Yorkshire and Humber
area are carried out eecuvely, and that fund
ing of 28.7m is allocated to local hospitals
and surgeries in the Yorkshire and Humber to
support their involvement in clinical research.
A speech and language therapist by back
ground, Dr Pickstone is a clinical leader and
researcher with a wealth of experuse in man
agement and leadership roles within the NHS,
including as senior manager of the South York
shire Comprehensive Local Research Network.
As a researcher she won a presugious Depart
ment of Health Research Fellowship Award in
2000 and a Florence Nighungale Leadership
Scholarship which enabled her to study strate
gic negouauon and leadership at Harvard Busi
ness School during 2010.
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She has served the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in
several roles including chairing the professional standards board and as a
research councillor over many years.

Dr Pickstone said: I am honoured and delighted to be appointed as chief
operaung ocer for the new Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Research
Network. The new network presents a huge opportunity for pauents in
our region to be able to take part in a wide range of health studies. Over
the six years of networks to date, research networks in Yorkshire have
developed innovauve ways of working and created a momentum and
enthusiasm to grow our research. Each part of the region has worked in
ways to suit their local needs and we will sustain this tailored approach as
we shape working for the future.

During the rst weeks of the role, I will be meeung stakeholders includ
ing teams, delivery sta, trust sta and others to understand local ap
proaches and listening to opportuniues and challenges. I look forward to
working with all these stakeholders and pauents across the region to bring
the benets of research to all parts of Yorkshire and Humber.


Sir Andrew Cash, chief execuuve for Sheeld Teaching Hospitals NHS
Foundauon Trust, said: Helping more pauents to take part in clinical re
search is vital if we are to improve care in the future. The new Yorkshire
and Humber Comprehensive Local Research Network is a fantasuc
plauorm for encouraging a greater takeup of clinical research, so I am
delighted to be announcing details of this appointment.
Caroline has worked tremendously hard over the past few years to give
strategic vision and direcuon to the South Yorkshire Clinical Research Net
work, and I look forward to working with her in the future to help spread
awareness of the benets of clinical research across the Yorkshire and
Humber region.
Dr Jonathan Sheeld, chief execuuve of the NIHR Clinical Research Net
work nauonally, said: "Clinical research is part of the dayjob for the NHS,
but we need to make sure that we give hospitals and surgeries the right
support to do it eecuvely. As chief operaung ocer, Dr Pickstone will
really help us to achieve a researchacuve culture for the benet of pa
uents, and I'm delighted to welcome her to the leadership team.

Dr Pickstone will take up her new post on Monday 17 February 2014.




...Connnued from Page 1...The event included introducuons to the four NIHR Diagnosuc Evidence Cooperauves
(DECs), followed by informauve talks surrounding In Vitro Diagnosucs (IVDs), interacuve workshops and network
ing opportuniues. The launch event was auended by over 100 stakeholders from industry, academia, NHS, pa
uents and chariues.
More informanon about the NIHR DEC Leeds can
be found at www.leeds.dec.nihr.ac.uk
NIHR Diagnosnc Evidence Cooperanve Leeds
New Leader for Clinical Research Network
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Message From our Senior Manager...
As you will see from our headline news story, we are de
lighted that the appointment of a chief operaung ocer for
the Yorkshire & Humber Local Clinical Research Network
has been announced. As the current senior manager for
South Yorkshire CLRN, we have worked with Caroline for
many years and will be giving her our full support. We
were fortunate to have Caroline auend our team meeung
this week to give us the message that she will be making a
priority to build support and trust by listening and engaging
with everyone. She was also clear about her plans to con
unue the theme of partnership working that was set out by
the LCRN host.

We are expecung nancial informauon relaung to the
2014/15 budget to be sent out to member organisauons in
the next few weeks as this will form part of the process for
compleung the Y&H LCRN Annual Plan. Our transiuon work
streams conunue and we hope that you found last months
Transiuon Special ebulleun useful.

It is reassuring to hear that many of our member organisa
uons have either extended CLRNfunded sta contracts by
12 months or in some trusts, transferred their research
sta onto permanent contracts to improve recruitment and
retenuon and send out a clear message about their com
mitment to research.
Whilst we are approaching many lasts for WYCLRN, such
as our last execuuve meeung and last network board
meeung, we are keen to take with us in the new LCRN all of
the good examples of what we do and what weve
achieved. We would be delighted to hear from you with
any feedback you want to give to ensure any good pracuce
is not lost in transiuon. Out reassurance to you is to con
unue to support business as usual through this period of
transiuon.

As this is my nal newsleuer as senior manager before I
leave WYCLRN at the end of March, Id like to give my per
sonal thanks to everyone and wish you all the very best.

Emma Giddings, Senior Manager WYCLRN
NIHR Funding Informanon

Detailed below are links to the funding booklet and overview of NIHR.

hup://www.nihr.ac.uk/les/News/NIHR%20funding%20opportuniues%20booklet%20low%
20res%20online.pdf

hup://www.nihr.ac.uk/les/Publicauons/NIHR%20overview%20leaet_master_June13.pdf

The RDS also circulates a funding and fellowship update on a monthly basis, examples on this
link;
hup://www.rdsyh.nihr.ac.uk/funding/fundingupdate/.
NIHR Research Design Service for Yorkshire and the Humber (NIHR RDS YH)
If you are considering developing an applicauon for this call then the NIHR RDS YH
oers free support or
specialist advice to turn your ideas into research proposals or to further develop your exisung
proposals. For more
informauon or to book an appointment please see:
hup://www.rdsyh.nihr.ac.uk/howcanwehelp/requestforadviceandsupport/
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HighlycommendedR&DDepartment!
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GOOD NEWS FROM AROUND WEST YORKSHIRE!
Congratulauons to South West Yorkshire NHS Foundauon
Trust who were formally recognised in a highly commended
excellence award for all their hard eorts over the past two
years To make quality research happen. (See Link)
hup://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk/qualityinnovauon/
excellenceawards/excellenceawards2013/quality
academy/.


RM&G Manager, Rebecca Spencer, expressed her
appreciauon of the team None of this would have been
possible without the dedicauon and commitment of every
body in the team, our invesugators, network and our sup
port colleagues that we rely on in order to
deliver quality research. This award is very signicant for all
of us.
Below are some pictures of the team. Congratulauons!

Drih Trial Mid Yorkshire Highest
Nanonal Recruiters
Mid Yorkshire were the highest Trust Nauonally to
recruit into the Dri trial, which has now closed to
recruitment. It is a very well done to Karen Simeson
our wonderful research nurse, who has worked
extremely hard with Aaron NG PI who encouraged
all the brilliant Orthopaedic team to get on board
with this study, including theatre coordinators and
orthopaedic out pauents sta.
The TURA study being led by Prof Emery and Dr Buch has just recruited its rst pauent. This is an impressive achievement
and congratulauons must go to the local team! This is the rst University sponsored drug trial with a large internauonal
component it will be recruiung at sites all over Europe and in Japan and its great news that the rst pauent recruited is at
the site in Leeds. There are very few noncommercial sponsors supporung this type of acuvity and there has been a huge
amount of work undertaken across the university (contracts and insurance teams) to make sure it has started.
The LTHT R&D metrics on this study are also notable;
SSI submission 22 November 2013
NHS Permission 13 December 2013
1st Pauent Recruited 09 January 2014
So 22 days to obtain NHS permission and another 28 to recruit the 1st pauent! Well Done!!!
LTHT Recruit First Panent on The TURA Study!
Mid YorkshireNo.1
Recruiters WORLDWIDE!
Congratulauons to MidYorkshire
Hospitals NHS Trust, who have been
the number 1 recruiters Worldwide
to the RADICALS Trial!
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Susan was nominated by Rebecca Foster, Lead Research
Nurse.
Rebecca wanted Susan to receive special acknowledgement
for going the extra mile and for showing extreme commit
ment for opening a haematology trial for pauents with a
condiuon called Paroxysmal Nocturnal
Haemoglobinuria (PNH).
By taking on this nurse led registry Susan idenued through
the haematology MDT over 13 pauents with this condiuon
and has enrolled eight into the registry. This has contributed
to the Trust becoming the global highest recruiter into the
PNH registry for nontreated pauents, who are being acuve
ly closely monitored. This is a major achievement,
and Susan's work has been recognised by Alexion, the com
pany who make the drug. Susan was given a grant to ena
ble her to do further work on educauon with other research
nurses about the condiuon.
Rebecca said Susan is a truly wonderful member of the
team and they are very fortunate to have such a dedicated
person working with them. Susan is very well thought of by
all the team and pauents.
Congratulanons to the Mid Yorkshire
Hospitals team!
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals, our highest recruiung site,
has recruited 108 pauents into the PATCH trial!
Congratulauons to the team led by
Mr. Subramanian
Kanaga Sundaram.
A staggering result, well done!
Congratulanons to Susan Sykes who received the MY Star Award in Mid Yorkshire!
GOOD NEWS FROM AROUND WEST YORKSHIRE!
Congratulanons to Medicines
for Children at LTHT!
The Medicines for Children team at LTHT
recruited the rst pauent in the UK to the
MCRN047 study so congratulauons go to the
team!
GCP Success!
Well done to Heather
Rostron who
successfully
completed her Good
Clinical Pracuce
exam! Here she is at
a GCP awards cere
mony in London,
receiving formal
recogniuon for her
achievement!
A Big Well Done to
Bradford!
Congratulanons to BTHT, who are
the third highest recruiters to the
CORD trial. Bradford also received
praise for their exemplary compli
ance in the CORD Newsleuer. Excel
lent work Bradford!
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John Hiley is a Senior Clinical Studies Officer at Bradford District Care Trust, he has worked in NHS research since
2003, and has been Senior CSO for over 2 years, Mark Pinkerton is a CSO at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS
Trust and has worked in this role for a year. Here, they share their views on the challenges faced by CSOs...
Clinical Studies Ocers and Research Nurses are oen perceived as hav-
ing similar roles within research teams. Both John and Mark commented
that there are elements of the roles that are similar; both CSOs and Re-
search Nurses have paent interacon, work in clinical sengs, maintain
documentaon and support PIs in their responsibilies. However, there
are also signicant dierences- with CSOs working in ever-changing envi-
ronments meaning they face both re-occurring and unique challenges on
a regular basis
Diagnosis
Both John and Mark commented that the diagnosis of pauents to decide
their suitability for a research trial could be challenging for CSOs. John
explained, Diagnosis itself remains an issue within mental health.
Whilst it would be almost unheard of for a pauent on an acute ward not
to have a diagnosis, and one that is codeable by ICD/DSM or other sys
tem used, this is not the case for mental health pauents in parucular.
Indeed it is argued that using a diagnosis is unhelpful. Mental health
diagnoses are, by and large, from symptoms, pauent reports/accounts
and those of carers. There are few signs used for many of the pauents
we see, and any behavioural symptoms will vary
signicantly in frequency, severity, level of disturb
ance etc. The diculty to diagnose pauents oen
results in a diculty to idenufy suitable pauents for
studies. This absence of nal diagnosis makes iniual
idenucauon of potenual recruits very dicult with
painstaking searching of observauonal notes, medi
cal correspondence and liaison with a pauents MDT
required to idenufy these possible recruits.
When a pauent who is deemed suitable for a trial is idenued there are
sull hurdles for the CSO, Once we think we have a suitable pauent there
will be a need to conrm the diagnosis as per the requirements of the
protocol. John went on to explain that this can lead to a postconsent
assessment, which uses highly complex diagnosuc psychometric
measures and that, dependant on the parucipant, these could take any
where between 2 to 8 hours to administer. Mark admiued this could be
a challenge but said that as a CSO one must be highly adaptable to
change This means we need to work with more exibility and liaise
with the clinicians if the clinical diagnosis isnt always black and white.
There are benets for pauents however, in the extended nature of diag
nosuc, and many of the other psychometrics used in mental health trials.
In some cases CSOs see a pauent and their carers frequently, and appear
to become part of the therapeuuc process for both. A number of paruci
pants on a recent depression trial reected on how the extra, frequent
interacuon with the research team had led to an improvement in how
they felt, oen staung the opportunity to explain their situauon to an
other listening, nonjudgemental ear.
Obtaining Samples
John explained that, as well as having to ensure that samples get to the
labs by transporung them themselves, the variety of backgrounds that
CSOs come from can lead to problems with the receipt of results.
as we are not members of the Trust that provides the service, we do
not have access to the electronic reporung mechanism, and the variety
of our stas background makes adding them to the Trusts reporung
system dicult (not all have a clinical background as CSOs come from a
variety of elds). This has caused delays in reporung.
Consent
For a CSO to obtain consent, a Best Interest Meeung is oen necessary,
John explained this process, Best Interest Meeungs take place in order
to help assess the appropriate course of acuon for vulnerable pauents,
such as those with learning disabiliues. It is a meeung of representauves
of clinical teams, social workers, relauves and potenually others who are
responsible in some way for the persons care. In eect it is a gathering
of personal and nominated consultees. In terms of research procedures,
one of these meeungs would rouunely be held in order to determine if
proceeding with an approach to the pauent to oer inclusion in the re
search project would be in the pauents best interest. Relauves may
visit infrequently, and/or have to travel long distances to auend these
meeungs. John went on to discuss that the ume oen required in order
to gain sausfactory consent makes many of the performance metrics
inappropriate, Mark agreed that the metrics are challenging when gain
ing consent is necessary; Consent is a big challenge, we want to concen
trate less on the numbers and more on the pauents best interests, but
the numbers are sull in the back of your mind.
Locanon of Work
Visiung pauents homes is a common occurrence for CSOs, Home visits
are regular and I prefer to visit at home on a whole, pauents are more at
ease and you get more reliable data, said Mark although he did go on
to admit that one of the biggest problems with
home visits for him is encountering violent dogs, as
well as being in certain situauons where he found
himself amongst large groups of people who had
been drinking he explained that in instances such
as this it is best to leave as soon as possible. John
also gave examples of complicauons that home
visits can result in Whilst it has not happened to
one of our team yet, I am aware of occasions re
cently where sta have been held, against their will, in a pauents home,
and have required police intervenuon to secure their release. CSOs do
follow a lone worker policy, and occasionally two are sent into situauon
where a full risk assessment is not possible, but it is not always possible
to predict the events surrounding home visits.
Home visits arent the only challenging environment for CSOs, John also
spoke of diculues encountered when accessing pauents in care homes;
Pauents who are care home residents can bring other complicauons, as
access needs to be negouated, and research projects further scruunised
and approved by the governing organisauons of these homes. This can
results in governance delays...One home manager set up appointments
with a CSO and repeatedly cancelled them, prevenung access to the pa
uent. Again this has a direct impact in metrics.
John and Mark both agreed that a specic skill set is required for a CSO,
with both staung that communicauon skills are especially valuable, with
Mark commenung; I try to build a rapport with people, if you want to
nd out about their background it is beuer to go in as a normal person
and not necessarily a researcher. Other necessary skills menuoned
were; pauence, the ability to problem solve, the ability to be exible and
adapt to constantly changing environments and a sense of humour
which John stated was oen necessary to reduce anxiety in certain situa
uons. Conict resoluuon and deescalauon skills are essenuals for CSOs
work, as is a working knowledge of breakaway techniques.
The role of the CSO has become more instrumental in gaining access to
service users especially since the shi in culture of research parucipa
uon due to the Its OK to Ask Campaign with studies being a success
due to techniques such as mailshots. This suggests that there are people
who want to take part in studies and a proacuve CSO can ensure they
are making these opportuniues available to a higher volume of prospec
uve pauents.
Connnued on to page 7...
A Day in The Life... Of a CSO
A number of parncipants on a
recent depression trial reected
on how the extra, frequent inter
acnon with the research team
had led to an improvement in
how they felt
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NEW ODP Knowledge and Resources Portal

ODP have just launched a new portal space where you can access a variety of resources to enhance your experience of ODP.

This is accessed via the NIHR CRN App Centre hup://www.appcentre.nihr.ac.uk/Pages/home.aspx

Here you can access:
ODP Applicanons Poruolio ODP, CSP ODP, How Is My Trust Performing?
ODP Knowledge Portal more details below
ODP Resources Portal more details below
External Applicanons UK Clinical Trials Gateway, Call for Parucipants
Please note: You can sull access ODP les from the normal ODP website hups://www.odp.nihr.ac.uk if you wish.
Also: More applicauons will be added to the NIHR CRN App Centre in the new year.

ODP Knowledge Portal hup://appcentre.nihr.ac.uk/Pages/knowledge.aspx

Open to anyone, this portal area contains the following resources:
ODP Training Webinars e.g Introducuon to Poruolio ODP, Introducuon to CSP ODP, Working with Charts in Poruolio ODP, Working
with Tables and Expressions in Poruolio ODP, Creaung Your Own Charts and Tables in CSP ODP.
Frequently Asked Quesnons (FAQs) about ODP
More content, such more FAQs and announcements, will be added in the new year.

ODP Resources Portal hup://appcentre.nihr.ac.uk/resources/Pages/home.aspx

A dedicated portal site for all ODP users. You will need to enter your ODP user name / password (e.g. nihris\username) to gain access.

Contains a range of training and collaborauon tools, including:
QlikView Technical Library and links to free QlikView training
ODP Hints & Tips discussion forum useful ups to help you get the most out of ODP
Suggesnons Board for Poruolio ODP add your ideas for improvements or new features that we could add
Announcements all recent ODP communicauons will be posted here.
Useful QlikView / ODP Documents a range of QlikView reference manuals and guidance documents
What you see now is a starung point we will add more discussion boards, resources and features once we get up and running.

We hope you nd these new developments useful. If you have any comments or suggesuons we would love to hear
them. Please email odp@nihr.ac.uk
Connnued from Page 6...
When asked about funding both CSOs commented that of course they
would benet from extra funding support, but that this is the case in
many areas. Mark commented that the support of members of admin
sta could be extremely benecial to prevent CSOs spending such exten
sive periods of ume going through notes. This has been the case in Brad
ford, where the employment of a Data and Systems Informauon Ocer
has allowed the more ecient interrogauon of the Trust EPR, and re
porung mechanisms. John added One could argue that as a number of
our studies take increased ume/sta resources, this should be taken into
account in funding models. The Metrics are another area that both John
and Mark believe could be reviewed in relauon to Mental Health/Learning
Disability Studies, John suggested that a clearer understanding of the

varying degrees of complexity of the range of clinical studies and semngs
in which they take place is required
When asked what the most enjoyable part of the job was Mark answered,
The exibility and the fact that you get to meet new people and encoun
ter a diverse range of clinicians. You never have the same day and there is
a lot of variety. CSOs have a challenging role but with these challenges
come the opportunity to work on interesung topics and a wide variety of
studies. CSOs are supported by the NIHR and Research Teams and various
training opportuniues are provided to them.


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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION FROM OUR INFORMATION AND PORFOLIO TEAMS


Produced by WYCLRN
Data correct 29/01/2014 (includes data up to 30/11/2013)
Total Recruitment by CLRN We are currently 10th in the country for pauents recruited.
Produced by WYCLRN
Data correct 06/01/2014 (includes data up to 30/11/2013)
WYCLRN Cumulauve recruitment There has been a good performance to date for recruitment to target achieving. Recruits up to end
of November stands 1325 higher than the recruitment goal
0
31,438
29,552
29,053
28,273
25,681
24,268
23,459
21,192
20,002
17,507
16,847
15,550
14,863
13,974
12,244
11,550
9,844
9,097
9,004
6,784
6,513
19,379
15,979
9,986
0 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 35,000
Central and East London
Greater Manchester
Thames Valley
Cheshire and Merseyside
London (S)
Western
Birmingham & Black Country
Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear
West Yorkshire
London (NW)
Leicester, Northants & Rutland
N&E Yorkshire & N Lincs
Trent
West Anglia
West Midlands (N)
Peninsula
Surrey and Sussex
South Yorkshire
West Midlands (S)
Cumbria and Lancashire
Norfolk and Suffolk
County Durham and Tees Valley
Essex and Hertfordshire
Total Recruitment by CLRN 2013/14 (up to 30/11/2013)
0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
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Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
Chartshowscumulativemonthlytotalrecruitment
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PredictedYear End
Rec't: 28,535
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Congratulauons to Health Services Research Group who has been the top recruiung group followed by Cardiovascular.
Produced by WYCLRN
Data correct 06/01/2014 (includes data up to 30/11/2013)
PERFORMANCE INFORMATION FROM OUR INFORMATION AND PORFOLIO TEAMS


Recruitment by Study Design by Trust
Produced by WYCLRN
Data correct 04/11/2013 (includes data up to 31/08/2013)
WYCRN Recruitment by study design by trust Recruitment
into Intervenuonal studies in the region has contributed 36%
of overall recruitment up to end of August. We aim to con
unue to parucipate in complex studies over the next year.
201314
Trust Band 1 Obs. Int. Total
Weighted
Total
%
Weighted
Total
Member Organisanons
Airedale NHS Foundauon Trust 5 180 42 227 81 1.0%
Bradford District Care Trust 0 76 377 453 393 4.6%
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundauon Trust 412 2,355 1,491 4,258 2,025 23.9%
Calderdale and Hudderseld NHS Foundauon Trust 81 343 375 799 454 5.4%
Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundauon Trust 0 182 371 553 410 4.8%
Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust 0 518 203 721 314 3.7%
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 555 5,474 1,852 7,881 3,065 36.1%
Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust 295 659 265 1,219 427 5.0%
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundauon Trust 45 89 626 760 648 7.6%
West Yorkshire Primary Care 578 1,638 274 2,490 666 7.9%
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 0 16 0 16 3 0.0%
Member Organisanons Total 1,971 11,530 5,876 19,377 8,488 100.0%
Others
NHS Connecung for Health Leeds 0 0 0 0 0
Private West Yorkshire CLRN 0 1 0 1 0
Total 1,971 11,531 5,876 19,378 8,488
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NIHR Regional Meenngs 2014 Celebranng Clinical Research Nurses
Please nd further details about the NIHR Regional Meeungs in this yer.

If you would like to auend the meeung in your region, please register your interest at the fol
lowing link;
hup://www.promriengs.co.uk/nihr/ccrnrm2014/

(Please note, registering for the event does not guarantee a place)

BPOS Conference "The emononal impact of
cancer" 27th28th February 2014 at the Marriou
Hotel, Preston.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Tom Hack, University of Manitoba, Canada
Professor Daniel Kelly, Cardi University, UK
Professor Mari LloydWilliams, University of Liverpool, UK

Registranon:
Full conference registrauon includes: access to all conference presentauons, overnight bed
and breakfast accommodauon and dinner on Thursday 27th February at the Preston Marriou
Hotel, and lunch and refreshments throughout the conference. Conference
registrauon fees are as follows;

Member Full Conference320.00

NonMember Full Conference350.00

Member Day Rate 100.00

NonMember Day Rate 120.00
Addiuonal dinner uckets (for partners, or those paying for Day Registrauon only) are available
at an addiuonal cost of 35.00 per ucket.
Please use this link to register:
hups://bpos.conferenceservices.net/registrauon.asp?conferenceID=3895&language=enuk
For general conference enquiries, please contact:
Trish Holch (BPOS Secretary) on T.Holch@leeds.ac.uk
or Kate Absolom (BPOS Treasurer) on k.l.absolom@leeds.ac.uk
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West Yorkshire CLRN Training News
For a full list of dates currently available please visit our web page at: hup://
www.crncc.nihr.ac.uk/about_us/ccrn/west_yorks/training
Places are snll available on the following courses:

Commercial Research: A Masterclass
An interacnve half day workshop designed to help researchers improve collaboranon with
pharma companies, idennfy strategies to achieve successful site selecnon and improve
delivery of commercial research. To book a place on this course, or for more informanon,
please contact enquiries@wyclrn.org.uk
Thursday 6 March 2014 The Annexe, 34 Hyde Terrace, Leeds

Eecnve Risk Management in Clinical Research
This one day course explores the idenncanon, assessment and management of the risks en
countered in clinical research for anyone involved in clinical research in the NHS.
Tuesday 18 March 2014 The Annexe, 34 Hyde Terrace, Leeds

Essennal Project Management Skills in Clinical Research
Eecnve project management underpins high quality clinical research. How can we ensure
that our nme and energy is focussed in the most producnve way.
Monday 10 March 2014 The Annexe, 34 Hyde Terrace, Leeds

Managing Data and Documents in Clinical Research
This is a one day course aimed at research nurses and allied health professionals who are
working prociently in clinical trials and want to develop their skills in project management.

Thursday 27 February 2014 The Annexe, 34 Hyde Terrace, Leeds

Informed Consent
A full day course for those currently working on, or with experience of, clinical trials who will
be obtaining informed consent from study parncipants.

Wednesday 19 March 2014 The Annexe, 34 Hyde Terrace, Leeds
Monday 28 April 2014 Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheeld
Monday 15 September 2014 The Annexe, 34 Hyde Terrace, Leeds
Tuesday 25 November 2014 Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheeld



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General and PPI
Enquiries:
enquiries@wyclrn.org.uk
0113 392 5824
For further informauon about any of the courses you can contact the Training Coordinator,
Angela Hemingway by email at a.hemingway@wyclrn.org.uk or phone on 0113 392 3877.
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Introducnon to Good Clinical Pracnce (GCP)
This is the essennal GCP full day course for anyone working on (or soon to be working on) re
search studies on the NIHR Poruolio. Please check the WY CLRN training and events web pages
hup://www.crncc.nihr.ac.uk/about_us/ccrn/west_yorks/training as further dates are added as
soon as they are conrmed.

Friday 14 March 2014 Airedale General Hospital
Monday 7 April 2014 The Annexe, 34 Hyde Terrace, Leeds
Thursday 1 May 2014 Hudderseld Royal Inrmary
Thursday 22 May 2014 Pinderelds General Hospital, Wakeeld
Friday 27 June 2014 New Mill, Saltaire
Monday 14 July 2014 Bradford Insutute for Health Research

GCP Refresher
This is a GCP refresher half day course for people who already have GCP training and
experience.

Monday 10 March 2014 Hudderseld Royal Inrmary
Wednesday 30 April 2014 Pinderelds General Hospital
Friday 16 May 2014 Airedale General Hospital
Wednesday 11 June 2014 Bradford Insutute for Health Research
Thursday 3 July 2014 Hudderseld Royal Inrmary
Thursday 3 July 2014 Pinderelds General Hospital
Monday 21 July 2014 The Annexe, 34 Hyde Terrace, Leeds

GCP E Learning
This is a one day course aimed at research nurses and allied health professionals who are
working prociently in clinical trials and want to develop their skills in project management.


CSP Enquiries:
csp@wyclrn.org.uk
0113 392 5876


Portfolio Enquiries:
portfo-
lio@wyclrn.org.uk
0113 392 6379
GCP training must be booked through the NIHR Learning Management System (LMS) which
is accessed at: http://www.crncc.nihr.ac.uk/workforce_development/courses