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Contact: For education: Kornelia Hathaway, Education & Training Manager, [email protected] For clinical enquiries, eg BioResource: Stewart Fuller, Ward Manager of WTCRF, [email protected] Tel: 01223 596048 Services Participants and researchers using the unit are supported by nursing, scientific, dietetic, administrative and laboratory services, and have access to the full range of clinical and non- clinical services of the Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust. Nursing and Clinical Staff from the unit are: - exclusively employed for research duties and activities associated with the conduct of high quality research, - recruited from a broad variety of clinical backgrounds, - competent in a range of clinical skills, - providing a high staff to participant/patient ratio, - providing a dedicated lead and associate lead from the ACRC nursing team The unit provides care and infrastructure to support overnight and day-case studies. Outcomes Since its inception, over 400 different research studies have been conducted on WTCRF & CIW, leading to new scientific insights, improvements in health care services, diagnoses, treatments, predictions and understanding of illnesses. Safety & Quality • Each study is scrutinized for safety, ethics, scientific merit and feasibility before being accepted to take place on the unit • The unit adheres to stringent NHS Research Governance rules • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for interventions are established and followed • Compliance with the Clinical Research gold standard of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) • Contributing to and complying with Trust audits, e.g. in infection control, patient experience and nursing documentation Facilities • Inpatient rooms • Outpatient consulting rooms • Specialist investigation rooms • Infusion bay • Dedicated diet kitchen for nutritional research • Metabolic sciences equipment • Medical imaging equipment, e.g. Ultrasound and Bone Densitometry Scanners • Cardiac monitoring • Endoscopy Suite • Audiology room • Paediatric play room • Sample processing laboratory • Meeting/training room • Computer hot desk room Background Established in 2001 to strengthen clinical research in the NHS Designed to be flexibly multipurpose and suitable for a wide range of healthcare research Education & Training • Tailor-made staff induction programme • Clinical skills training that incorporates the requirements for ongoing and new studies • Research skills education and training for a diverse set of health care professionals • Collaborative training and education events Aim To provide purpose-built, dedicated clinical research facilities for use by the local research community where patients/volunteers can participate in high quality research programmes safely and effectively according to robust, ethically approved trial protocols Add photo The Addenbrooke’s Clinical Research Centre (ACRC), Cambridge Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility (WTCRF) & Clinical Investigation Ward (CIW)
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Contact:For education: Kornelia Hathaway, Education & Training Manager, [email protected]
For clinical enquiries, eg BioResource: Stewart Fuller, Ward Manager of WTCRF, [email protected]: 01223 596048
Services
Participants and researchers using the unit are supported by nursing, scientific, dietetic, administrative and laboratory services, and have access to the full range of clinical and non-clinical services of the Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust.
Nursing and Clinical Staff from the unit are:- exclusively employed for research duties and activities associated with the conduct of high quality research,- recruited from a broad variety of clinical backgrounds,- competent in a range of clinical skills,- providing a high staff to participant/patient ratio,- providing a dedicated lead and associate lead from the ACRC nursing team
The unit provides care and infrastructure to support overnight and day-case studies.
Outcomes
Since its inception, over 400 different research studies have been conducted on WTCRF & CIW, leading to new scientific insights, improvements in health care services, diagnoses, treatments, predictions and understanding of illnesses.
Safety & Quality• Each study is scrutinized for safety, ethics, scientific merit and feasibility before being accepted to take place on the unit• The unit adheres to stringent NHS Research Governance rules• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for interventions are established and followed• Compliance with the Clinical Research gold standard of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) • Contributing to and complying with Trust audits, e.g. in infection control, patient experience and nursing documentation
Facilities• Inpatient rooms • Outpatient consulting rooms• Specialist investigation rooms• Infusion bay• Dedicated diet kitchen for nutritional research• Metabolic sciences equipment • Medical imaging equipment, e.g. Ultrasound and Bone Densitometry Scanners• Cardiac monitoring• Endoscopy Suite• Audiology room• Paediatric play room• Sample processing laboratory• Meeting/training room• Computer hot desk room
Background
Established in 2001 to strengthen clinical research in the NHS
Designed to be flexibly multipurpose and suitable for a wide range of healthcare research
Education & Training• Tailor-made staff induction programme• Clinical skills training that incorporates the requirements for ongoing and new studies• Research skills education and training for a diverse set of health care professionals• Collaborative training and education events with other research organisations• Individual professional development
Aim
To provide purpose-built, dedicated clinical research facilities for use by the local research community where patients/volunteers can participate in high quality research programmes safely and effectively according to robust, ethically approved trial protocols
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The Addenbrooke’s Clinical Research Centre (ACRC), CambridgeWellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility (WTCRF)
& Clinical Investigation Ward (CIW)
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