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Care Home Research Accessible Summaries

We aim to enable researchers to share findings, raise awareness, and bridge the gap between “everyday practice” and academia. An accessible summary is a short piece of content used to explain research to members of the public. By co-creating these summaries, we can foster the outreach of wider academics and/or care home researchers to engage with people with lived experience by sharing findings and showcasing these outputs to have lasting impacts. We have integrated media tools (

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About the Hepatology Specialty Group

The Hepatology Specialty Group oversees research that deals with the diagnosis and management of patients with diseases of the liver, biliary tree, and pancreas. Topics of Hepatology research include Acute and chronic liver disease including liver failure The impact of identifying, screening and treating viral hepatitis Liver fibrosis and cirrhosis Normal and abnormal liver metabolism Genetic studies including pharmacongenetics Biomark...

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Reproductive Health and Childbirth Speciality Group seeking new Clinical Lead for ‘exciting opportunity’

The NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Reproductive Health and Childbirth Specialty Group has a vacancy for a Clinical Lead, considered to be an ‘exciting opportunity to make a real difference’ The Chief Scientist Office (CSO) is looking to make an appointment over the next few months to support the effective delivery of research projects, including increasing the number of patients enrolled into trials and helping to reduce barriers to participation. The

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Dundee Research Facility

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Patient and public involvement in mental health

Over the past decade, the role of patient and public involvement (PPI) in mental health research has grown enormously as its value to research excellence has been recognised and accepted. Over the past few years, PPI has cemented itself as both a core value of high quality clinical research and an intrinsically important part of any successful and well-regarded clinical research trial.   -------------------------------------- The

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South

Name of organisation NHS Lothian Population 978K Annual outpatient visits 730K R&D Director Professor Alasdair Gray Address Usher Building, The University of Edinburgh, 5-7 Little France Road, Edinburgh BioQuarter (Gate 3), EH16 4UX Telephone 0131 242 6476 Email

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Get Involved

High quality research, good recruitment and improved health outcomes for children, depend on listening to the voices of children and young people, as well as their families and carers. Children, families, carers and members of the public can get involved by voluntarily taking part in research, or by helping to shape research. NRS Children's has set up a Young Persons’ Group to act as advocates for young people in clinical trials in Scotland. Role of the YPG:

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Student Information & Work Experience

NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (NHS GGC) are at the forefront of healthcare innovation, and the opening of the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) has established the largest hospital campus in Europe. The integration and collaboration of the Health Service and Universities in NHS GGC provides a robust infrastructure supporting an active clinical research community and enthusiastic research staff.  The network of Clinical Research Facilities in NHS GGC supports a busy...

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Attributing the costs of health research (AcoRD guidance)

Research should be viewed as a core function of the NHS and the NHS throughout the UK is committed to promoting and conducting research to improve current and future health & social wellbeing and to improve NHS patient care services. While the NHS must play its full part in supporting research it is important that the cost of that research is identified and properly funded. Scotland follows the UK–wide

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Jacqui Kerr

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