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NHS Research Scotland
Our Vision To place Scotland at the international forefront of clinical research. Our Mission To support and promote excellence in clinical research in NHS Scotland, that will make a positive difference to patients health within Scotland, the UK and internationally. Our Role Help deliver high quality studies in the NH...
Infrastructure
Clinical research is embedded within our NHS facilitating timely access to resources and a strong support infrastructure. Scotland operates a centralised system to support clinical research and improve quality, efficiency and co-ordination. Working on a pan-Scotland basis a responsive infrastructure has been implemented to encourage researchers to bring studies to Scotland and ensure that obtaining R&D permission is...
Health Professionals
Please see our GP information leaflet for further detail on how the network can support you to take part in research within a primary care setting. A recent article by Dr David Shukla, a GP working in Dudley, England gives his perspective on the value of getting involved in research within Primary Care. "Involvement with research benefits patients, doctors and...
Edinburgh Research Facility
Children’s Research Network
NRS Children's Network is funded by the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of Scottish Government and aims to increase the safety, efficacy and availability of medicines and health care for children by supporting high-quality clinical trials. The Network co-ordinating centre is located in the Children’s Hospital in Aberdeen and studies registered can be supported by access to experienced research nurses plus: Identification of appropriate sites and principal investigators
About the Network
The NRS Stroke Research Network aims to expand stroke research in Scotland whilst ensuring it is of high quality, timely and better tailored to the needs of the people of Scotland. The Network is funded by the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) and is steered by an Executive Group which represents four regional research committees: East Scotland, North East Scotland, South East of Scotland and West of Scotland. The Executive Group aims to include key stroke researchers in Scotland, plus...
Research Imaging
From August 2016 one of the world’s most powerful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines will be located in Glasgow. The University of Glasgow, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Siemens, the scanner manufacturer, have joined forces to bring an advanced 7-Tesla (7T) scanner to the city, along with a smaller, top of the range 3T machine. The 7T scanner will be installed in the new Imaging Centre of Excellence (ICE) Building at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Publications
The latest publications from NRS Pain and across the pain research community The World Health Organization's (WHO’s) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) currently has no diagnostic codes for chronic pain. To rectify this, the WHO and the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) have developed, for the first time, a series of relevant codes for the forthcoming 11th edition (ICD-11). Blair H. Smith contributed to the WHO/IASP Task Force, and to a series o...
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...
Electronic Health Records
Information from electronic health records (EHR) has been extensively used in health and biomedical research in Scotland. It has enabled the development of novel approaches to life course epidemiology, cost-effective evaluations of large-scale health service and public health interventions, efficient long-term follow-up of clinical trials, and important work in pharmaco-epidemiology and a wide range of clinical research areas. Key Benefits: Integrated data sets El...
