Featuring presentation videos and accompanying slides: Whether you are new in your role or have worked within a clinical research delivery team for a while, you will benefit from attending this ‘valuable and worthwhile’ online course to hear from highly knowledgeable and engaging speakers. Maximise your learning of clinical trial delivery through presentations and interactive discussion plus progress your understanding of your team members’ roles within a clinical research study and how to apply best practice for setting up, delivering and closing down a trial.
3 hours Continuing Professional Development: what you will learn
Aimed at all professionals working within research, this event is accessible regardless of your role and will provide you with a good baseline knowledge about delivering clinical trials. Book your place to focus on:
Meet your education and training needs in your own time
Take away ideas from the trailblazers and adapt them for your own service, plus benefit from:
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Introduction, instructions and chair’s opening remarks
Aileen Burn, Research Matron, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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| Your Trial Team | |
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Understanding your team members’ roles within a clinical research study
Karl Ward, Lead Nurse for Research and Innovation (Education), NIHR GCP Facilitator, Expert Ethics Committee Member, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust / National Institute for Health Research
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Questions and answers with your speaker
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| Study Set Up | |
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How to effectively set up a clinical research trial
Karl Ward, Lead Nurse for Research and Innovation (Education), NIHR GCP Facilitator, Expert Ethics Committee Member, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust / National Institute for Health Research
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Questions and answers with your speaker
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| Clinical Trial Delivery | |
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Delivering a successful and effective clinical research study
Sanjay Ramakrishnan, Respiratory Medicine Clinical Research Fellow, The Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
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Questions and answers with your speaker
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| Ending your trial | |
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Best practice for closing down your clinical research study
Kim Lee, NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility Acting Senior Quality Assurance Lead, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
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Questions and answers with your speaker
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Close of course
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Your confirmed speaker line-up includes:
Aileen Burn is Research Matron for The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a position she has held since 2012. Aileen trained at St Michael’s Hospital in Dublin, taking up her first position as a staff nurse in 1989. She gained experience in neuroscience after moving to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, and Maida Vale in London before moving to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1992.
Roles held in the North East have included specialist nurse in multiple sclerosis in Sunderland and junior sister on the neuro high dependency unit at the Regional Neuroscience Centre in Newcastle. She holds a master’s degree in advanced nursing from Sunderland University (2005).
Karl is a Lead Nurse for Research and Innovation (Education) at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT). He works within R & I to support clinical research delivery throughout LTHT. He has extensive clinical, educational, research and leadership experience.
Karl is currently responsible for education and training for all staff involved in Research delivery and is the lead for the LTHT Research Academy. He acts as a source of expert advice in regulatory, governance and feasibility issues within the units he supports and the wider trust. Within the trust he has successfully developed, delivered and evaluated the package of training that is offered via the LTHT Research Academy. He is also a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) accredited Good Clinical Practice (GCP) facilitator and delivers educational sessions on GCP, research governance, informed consent and investigator oversight to all grades of research delivery staff at a local and regional level.
Until recently he was an expert committee member of a local Health Research Authority Research Ethics Committee and has served on national committees and steering groups for the Royal College of Nursing Research Society and is a current member of the Association of UK Lead Research Nurses (AUKLRN).
Dr Sanjay Ramakrishnan is a respiratory physician from Australia currently working as a research fellow at the University of Oxford. He has successfully completed a phase 2 clinical trial in the community. He is currently the local PI for 3 NIHR portfolio studies in addition to completing a major RCT investigating the treatment of asthma and COPD exacerbations. He is also the NIHR Thames Valley and South Midlands Clinical Research Network Fellow for 2021-2022.
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Past attendee feedback
‘It was very interactive and informative session…Overall it was an excellent session.’
Epsom and St. Helier NHS Trust
‘A good experience to know the research best practice.'
Epsom and St. Helier NHS Trust
‘I am new to clinical research and found the day informative both in terms of the information gained from the speakers but also from the discussions in the break out rooms. It was great to hear from other trusts and from researchers from different backgrounds.’
Hings Mill Hospital
‘Very informative day, Interesting / knowledgeable speakers. Very well organised.’
Birmingham Women's & Children's
‘The experience has been really nice. Lots of teamwork and being a small group has make everyone to interact more and expose their ideas.’
Epsom and St. Helier university hospital
‘Really useful presentations by knowledgeable speakers… I thought SBK Healthcare did an excellent job at organizing and hosting the event, everything went really smoothly. All staff were friendly and helpful.’ ‘Really useful presentations by knowledgeable speakers… I thought SBK Healthcare did an excellent job at organizing and hosting the event, everything went really smoothly. All staff were friendly and helpful.’- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Who came?
If you purchase and view the presentation video and accompanying sides, you will be in good company! The following is an insight into the job titles and organisations who came to Best Practice in Clinical Research: From Study Inception to Delivery when it was held on Wednesday 29th June 2022: