Broadhurst Street Medical Practice is a research active practice. This means that we carry out medical research at the practice. This research can take many different forms such as asking patients and staff to fill in questionnaires, patients being sent invitations by letter or sms to join a research study, to patients being recruited during appointments with clinicians.
What is the Primary Care Research Network East of England
The mission of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the research arm of the NHS, is to maintain a health research system in which the NHS supports outstanding individuals, working in world class facilities, conducting leading edge research focused on the needs of patients and the public. The NIHR is funded by the Department of Health.
The Primary Care Research Network East of England (PCRN EoE) is one of a family of NIHR national research networks working together with the Comprehensive Local Research Networks (CLRN) to provide a wide range of support to the local research community. Our practice participates in research activity and works closely with the Primary Care Research Network East of England, creating more opportunities for more patients to be involved in research should they wish. By building on and extending partnerships, with university academics and the NHS, research collaboration across the East of England is further strengthened.
What is Primary Care research?
People use research to try and find the causes of diseases and to find better treatments and services for those diseases and improve patient care.
Different types of research
Research is presented in different formats:
- Completing a questionnaire
- Requesting the use of your anonymised data
- Taking part in an interview
- Testing new treatments, therapies or devices
- Experiencing new combinations of treatments
Research Training – Good Clinical Practice for research in Primary Care
A key requirement for anyone involved in the conduct of clinical research is Good Clinical Practice for research (GCP) training. GCP is the guideline and standard to which all NHS research is conducted.