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Infrastructure funding from the CLRN

The CLRN has £1m to fund staff costs for either new trials or at risk trials (note that, wherever possible, such costs should have been included in grant applications, with CLRN funds to act as a contingency should the funding agency decline or exclude the funding). The aim is to facilitate the process of high quality UKCRN Portfolio studies and optimise participant recruitment to these. The funding can cover salary costs for clinicians, research nurses and associated staff, such as clinical research officers and data managers, as well as dedicated administrative staff for a reasonable period of time, up to four years.  It cannot be used for service support costs. 
 
Typical duties of such staff will include:
  • Leading Portfolio trials
  • Identifying patients eligible to participate in UKCRN Portfolio studies
  • Explaining studies to patients; obtaining informed consent
  • The management of patients through the research process
  • The collection, collation and submission of research data
  • Local study management including adverse event reporting
  • Liaison with the study Chief Investigator or Clinical Trials Unit.
 
Investigators working within a Member Trust or its partner university are eligible to apply (Eligible Organisations) but only costs relating to staff employed by an NHS organisation can be funded.  Direct funding of university staff is excluded.  Only staff whose work is directly related to registered studies on the UKCRN Portfolio Database can be proposed for these funds.  Staff working in research, but on non-portfolio studies, are not eligible.  Applications for consultant programme activities may be applied for where, due to the complexity of changing a job plan, the funding may be used more generally for the clinician’s research team.
 
Please complete an application form.  Please note that in the application form you will be asked to provide or confirm the following information:
  1. Confirmation that the study is sponsored by your Trust or partner university
  2. If the study concerns an area of medicine covered by a Topic Specific Clinical Research Network (except the Primary Care Research Network) [1], an indication as to why it has not been adopted nor funded by the relevant Network.
  3. An explanation as to why the local Trust cannot fund the costs using their direct allocation of CLRN funds.
 
Applications can be submitted at anytime and should be sent by email to the CLRN.  If you have any queries, please call 020 7882 8815 or contact Dr Delphine Purves, Senior Manager.

[1] Topic Specific areas are: Cancer, Diabetes, Medicines for Children, Mental Health, Stoke, Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases.

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Last updated: 8 December 2008

 
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