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Making Care Home Research Accessible

What is RICH Voices? Research In Care Homes (RICH) Voices is the equivalent of a Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) group for ENRICH Scotland.  PPI is a method of including people in decisions about research and related activities. Instead of professionals making all the choices, PPI combines experiences, opinions, and ideas of the people who might be affected the findings of research. Our key aim is to collaborate with people living and working i...

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Research Support

Glasgow Clinical Research Facility (GCRF) is a state of the art, purpose-built facility, complete with technical equipment to support high-quality research. The GCRF comprises of an adult and paediatric facility at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and an adult facility the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Each facility provides high-quality clinical spaces and outreach services where patients and healthy volunteers can take part in international clinical research studies. All research is co...

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Training and Events

National Cancer Research Institute Virtual Events To keep the community connected and provide an opportunity for researchers to share knowledge and foster collaboration, the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) provides regular events on the big topics in cancer research, with UK and international expert speakers. Visit their virtual events

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Infectious Diseases Event Resources

Infectious Diseases Research Day 2025 The NHS Research Scotland Infectious Diseases event will be held on Tuesday 16 September at the V&A, Dundee This event is for all members of the Infection research team, including trainees, consultants, nurses and lab teams. Find out more about registration, abstract submission...

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Scotland’s health informatics capabilities

Scotland has one of the most highly developed health informatics systems in the world and a long tradition of using linked health service data for research including: Evaluating interventions to deliver patient benefit Measuring long-term outcomes in clinical trials Assessing the safety of new medical interventions Supporting understanding of patterns of health and illness across the whole population. Few other countries have systems that...

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NHS Grampian’s Director of Research & Development awarded prestigious inaugural medal

The Director of Research and Development (R&D) for NHS Grampian has been become the first recipient of a prestigious new award Professor Seshadri Vasan — a member of the NHS Research Scotland Management Board and Director of the Grampian Commercial Research Delivery Centre (CR...

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Get Involved

The Stroke Network believes that active patient and public involvement is needed if it is to encourage research which directly benefits and reflects the needs and views of patients and the public. The Network is committed to: Including patients, carers and the public's perspectives within all stroke research activity Facilitating patients, carers and the public to be involved at all stages of the research process, from inception to reporting through to implementat...

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NHS Research Scotland Mental Health Annual Scientific Meeting 2023

'Healthy Connections: from Cells to Society' This year we are hosting a hybrid event, with the opportunity to join us in person at the venue, or virtually online. Anyone interested and involved with mental health research in Scotland can attend. Regis...

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Sustainable PPI in Co-designing Dundee Dental Hospital and Research School (DDH&RS)

Following a scoping exercise of patient and public involvement (PPI) activity across the hospital and research school, it became apparent that activity was limited to NIHR funded trials and a handful of individual research projects. With support from leadership teams across the Dundee Dental Hospital and Research School (DDH&RS) a more extensive programme of patient and public involvement activity was actioned. Here we reflect on progress and next steps. First Patient and P...

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Venue

The conference will be held at the Teaching and Learning Centre, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus, 1345 Govan Road, Govan, Glasgow, G51 4TF. The venue is fully accessible.  Group Transport To support delegates to attend the conference and encourage sustainability, complimentary group transport has been offered. Coaches will depa...

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