The value of clinical research to acute NHS Trusts
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The value of clinical research to acute NHS Trusts
IRAS ID
169974
Contact name
Salina Sek Luen Tsui
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Anglia Ruskin University
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 2 days
Research summary
The UK National Health Service (NHS) is one of the world’s leading organisations for hosting clinical and applied health research and health care research is regarded as one of the core NHS principles. UK government provides nearly £1 billion a year to help fund health research projects in the NHS. Running research and related activities are costs intensive. Little empiric work has been done to measure the benefits associated with clinical research and particularly, to date there are no studies that specifically examine the intrinsic value of participating in clinical research to an individual NHS trust.
In order to identify the effects that are relevant to an NHS Trust, a qualitative approach will be used where stakeholders including patients, clinical staff and executive staff of the selected trust(s) will be invited to participate in semi-structured interviews. Stakeholders will be provided with information leaflets which contain information of the study. Consent forms will also be completed for stakeholders that are willing to participate in the study. Semi-structured interviews will then take place at a convenient time for the participant.
These are exploratory interviews and so will include some open questions where participants will be asked to give their views on the effects of clinical research in general and the relevance of these effects to the NHS. The interview will be recorded for analysing purposes.
The collected data will be analysed by identifying the different themes presented in the interviews. The themes will be summarised and categorised into different clinical research effect categories. The effect categories captured will be used to aid further research to help formulate an evaluation tool examining clinical research effects that are specifically relevant to NHS Trust.
REC name
North West - Greater Manchester West Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/NW/0579
Date of REC Opinion
15 Jul 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion