October Newsletter 2018
Date: 29 October 2018
Welcome to Forum October Newsletter
Did you know?
Members of the Forum working groups and the Forum senior leadership team attend meetings with policy makers and key opinion leaders. In doing this they act as a voice for NHS R&D management teams and gather intelligence to support the R&D community further. You can feed into these groups anytime by emailing info@rdforum.org.ukand read current activities in the Forum roundup.
There are over 500 resources in the Forum resources exchange, it is open access and free to use.
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Did you read…?
Writing a successful abstract for the Annual NHS R&D Forum: Blog by Sally Humphries ACET Lead Clinical Researcher, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
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The Forum Briefing Note for R&D Managers on ETCs. Published Sept 2018
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2019 Annual NHS R&D Forum Conference Update
The NHS R&D Forum are delighted to announce that Dame Fiona Caldicott & Professor Jonathan Montgomery will be taking part in a very special Plenary Session at RDF19, the 2019 Annual NHS R&D Forum.
Dr Nicola Williams, Chair of the Programme Content Group and National Director of Support & Delivery, Health and Care Research Wales said “We are delighted to welcome Dame Fiona Caldicott to the conference in 2019.
She will be interviewed on stage by Professor Jonathan Montgomery about the origins of the Caldicott guardians, their importance in research and the future challenges of protecting the use of patient information.”
Topics of social care and research, trials retention, and clinical trials beyond Brexit are also confirmed. Acadmi Wales will explore finding happiness in the workplace through Applied Positive Psychology and there is much more to come.
You can see all up-to-date speaker and conference news on the website and most importantly you can book a place!
Link: https://www.annualrdforum.org.uk/
Call For Abstracts
Oral abstracts by 1st December
Poster abstracts by 31st December
Abstracts are absolutely critical to the Annual Forum conference. They ensure content is current and help to spread knowledge, innovation and learning.
The programme committee are looking for oral and poster presentations that relate to the process, the structure, improving efficiency, improving quality, promoting best practice or adding value in R&D studies, teams, departments or organisations. Please rally your colleagues and teams to submit. It is a great experience and keeps our community connected and current.
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Professional Learning & Development
Non-commercial Sponsors’ Symposia
How to be a good, compliant Sponsor
November 8th2018, London
This Symposia is now fully booked and we are running a waiting list. Over 90 non-commercial Sponsors are attending, which is fantastic. We shall of course be tweeting and sharing updates for all. You can follow the day on the hashtag #noncomsponsors and in next month’s news.
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Improved, new look ‘Essentials of NHS Research’
25th& 26thMarch, Bristol
The first of this new improved course ran earlier in the month and received such fantastic feedback that we’ve hurried to open bookings again. Attendees ranged from Universities, Trusts, CCGs, NIHR CRN and Government R&D departments, which led to wide and varied discussion around the topics.
A snapshot of the feedback is provided below and the course leaders are updating it already to make sure it continually improves. The new written workbook in particular was really well received so a huge thanks to Dr Allyson Bailey for leading this for the Forum.
“I would highly recommend this course to others no matter their experience. The way it is structured I thoroughly enjoyed it. The activities and discussions really helped make it real”
“Wonderful course, I learned so much my head is spinning. Thank you’
“Course handbook will be my bible going forwards”
Essentials of NHS Research is for all levels of role new to a health care R&D department, as well as colleagues in industry, academia and third sector that would like to better understand managing NHS Research.
Content covers, understanding the landscape, policy, regulation, patient & public involvement, roles of R&D, capacity & capability, costing, AcoRD, contracts, safety, data, oversight, impact, strategy and more!
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Forum courses ‘in-house’
All courses on the Forum programme can be tailored to serve local needs and settings. If you would like a course delivered in your organisation please contact info@rdforum.org.uk
Regulatory & Policy news:
The HRA and MHRA have published a joint statement on seeking and documenting consent using electronic methods (eConsent)
This statement sets out the legal and ethical requirements for seeking and documenting consent using electronic methods and is supported and endorsed by the UK health Departments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
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CQC publish the Well-Led Inspection framework for NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts.
The Care Quality Commission have published the Well-Led Inspection Framework for NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts and Research is now recognised in W8 (p22-24)
W8 p22-24: Are there robust systems and processes for learning, continuous improvement and innovation?
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Excess Treatment Costs and Commercial Study Set Up
The pilot of new systems for the management of ETCs and commercial study set up for studies on the NIHR Portfolio began on the 1stOctober. It is important to keep watch on the main website hereso that you are informed of any developments.
Updates include revisions and improvements to the SoECAT based upon your feedback and new resources and tools.
Forum members are part of a feedback group and so if you have anything to contribute or share with the policy teams please do let us know via kate.greenwood@rdforum.org.uk
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HRA Technical Pharmacy Assurance: New process opened 15thOctober 2018
The new process for technical pharmacy assurance opened on 15 October 2018 in England, Scotland and Wales, with the process opening in Northern Ireland once a phased rollout is complete in England and Wales.
Sites will still need to assess local capacity and capability to ensure the study is deliverable but will be saved from conducting their own, separate technical pharmacy reviews.
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Around the Forum
Slides from Embedding Research Strategy & Culture Symposium
This small Symposium drew together 50 members of the community who are leading strategy and culture in their organisations. The value of the day came from the sharing of case studies, approaches and lessons learned for driving research strategy right across the different types of organisation.
It was a hugely enjoyable and fruitful day. We will publish a blog summary soon but in the meantime you can download all of the slides here.
Positioning UK PLC as a Primary Choice for Clinical Trials
Jonathan Sheffield (NIHR CRN) and Jacqueline Johnson North (IAoCR) hosted this day, which was also attended by the HRA, MHRA, NHS Trusts and Industry leaders, including CROs. The Forum was represented and the Research Strategy and Leadership Working group will review the feedback at their November meeting.
Thank you for all your interest
Thank you to all who have submitted interest in various Forum groups, including working groups, training oversight and communications. We are hugely grateful and all chairs are reviewing the interest.
The Senior Leadership team are assessing where new groups may need to be convened and how we can grow communities of interest across the Forum network. Please continue to feed in all your thoughts to info@rdforum.org.uk
Calls from the Community
Title: e-Archiving facilities
Members are seeking any experience or reviews of e-archiving facilities. If you use an e-archive or have researched/audited any providers then please get in touch via kate.greenwood@rdforum.org.uk
Example Memorandum of understanding between University and Trust
Members are seeking examples of umbrella agreements or MOUS between Universities and Trusts. If you are able to share anything you have already developed please contact kate.greenwood@rdforum.org.uk
Have your say
Please continue to feed your views on anything of interest or challenge to info@rdforum.org.uk or kate.greenwood@rdforum.org.uk
Open for Consultation: MHRA EU Exit non-deal contingency legislation for the regulation of medicines and medical devices
This consultation seeks your views on how the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) legislation and regulatory processes would have to be modified in the event of the UK not securing a deal with the EU after the UK’s exit, with no Implementation Period. This consultation covers no-deal proposals on medicines, clinical trials and medical devices.
Closes 1stNovember for submission to the MHRA.
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Your views wanted on local information submitted to R&D
The HRA are keen to hear experience on the quality of information submitted and received into R&D departments during study site set up. This information will help shape what they do in future and will also help shape process.
If you have comments to make or would like to join a telephone conference call to discuss then please get in touch with kate.greenwood@rdforum.org.uk
New Department of Health & Social Care Vision for Health Tech. The future of healthcare our vision for digital, data and technology in health and care
The document outlines the DHSC vision for what is needed to enable the health and care system to make the best use of technology to support preventative, predictive and personalised care. You can comment or feedback on this vision by online questionnaire.
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New Resources this month
New resources this month
- Animation to explain the new ETC process for research
- AMRC new Q&A sheet explaining the ETC process for research
- List of useful references providing some evidence for how research influences care
- How to tackle clinical trials transparency: University of Bristol Case Study via Transpirimed.
- Transparimed Checklist: WHO best practices in Clinical Trials Transparency
- BMJ Blog: Unreported trial of the week. Discussion about who is responsible for overdue reporting when a PI leaves a Sponsor institution.
- NIHR I AM RESEARCH 2018 and NHS70 Campaign highlights Infographic
View the latest additions to the Resource Exchange here
Please send in your tools, resources and helpful links. You can submit them directly here or send to info@rdforum.org.uk. Just one resource from every organisation would really make a difference and help to keep us all current.
Other News, Call & Funding
NIHR Academy fellowship schemes
Research professorship schemes, Advanced Fellowships and Doctoral Fellowships available. Closing Nov/Dec
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NIHR Funding Opportunities
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Health & Care Research Wales: Senior Research Leaders Competition. Closing 14thNovember
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Latest Jobs
There are lots of new jobs this month – see here.
Please submit your latest vacancies and we will also tweet them out.
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