Training | James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Good Clinical Practice facilitated workshops

You can read more about Good Clinical Practice via the NIHR website here.

JPUH Research Programme

The purpose of the Research Programme is to provide the James Paget University Hospitals Research and Development Team with a standardised education programme, underpinned by quality assurance in order to meet the requirements of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The programme is designed to complement Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training.

Core educational sessions for all researchers cover the following topics:

Source Documentation
Site file creation and maintenance
Safety Reporting
Preparation for monitoring visits.

The above sessions are facilitated by experience members of the core research team and run monthly.

Examples of additional research training sessions which can be provided are:

Informed consent for research for incapacitated participants
Informed consent for research for paediatric participants
Laboratory skills for research
What is the Integrated Research Application Systems (IRAS)? And how to complete Site Specific Information (SSI) forms?

Who is the programme for?

All clinical and non-clinical researchers, new or experienced, who are working within the James Paget University Hospital.

Research programme approval

Approval has been provided by the Research Support and Governance Group (RSGG), the Deputy Director of Nursing and the Trust Research Lead.

Research Support and Governance Group

The Research Support and Governance Group (RSGG) is a sub-group of the Workforce, Education and Research Committee (WERC). The committee is accountable for Research Governance. This responsibility is delegated by the Medical Director to the Clinical Director for Research and Development.

The main aims of the group are as follows:

Review and approve all research projects within the trust ensuring compliance with the terms of the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research and identify potential risks to the trust.
Oversee the implementation of the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care throughout the trust, ensuring that all relevant information on the framework, EU directive, Good Clinical Practice etc is appropriately disseminated throughout the trust.
Ensure that effective research governance approval mechanisms are in place for the consideration of research projects submitted for approval.
Provide a forum for discussion on research governance issues that affect research activity locally
Ensure that the appropriate systems are in place to monitor, audit and review the outcomes of approved research.
Encourage research and development activity by providing support to local researchers and potential researchers from study conception through protocol development, preparation of applications and submissions for ethical and R&D review.
Monitor research grant applications and all finances related to research activities.
Agree research strategies and monitor progress
Monitor progress against national and local research network targets.

RSGG Members Comprise:

Clinical Director for Research & Development

Deputy Clinical Director for Research & Development

Head of Research and Development

Lead Nurse for Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Research

Research Grants Advisor

Senior Clinical Research Nurse

Research Management Co-ordinator

Deputy Director of Nursing

Non-Executive Director

Divisional Operational Managers

Financial Representative

Representative Research Active Clinicians

Head of Pharmacy

Meetings

Meetings are private and are held bi-monthly.

Library teaching sessions

The Sir James Paget Library offers some excellent courses including ‘Critical Appraisal Training (of published articles)’, ‘NHS Healthcare Databases, NHS Evidence article and subject searching’ and ‘Referencing and bibliographic citations training’.

To book onto these sessions please contact the library directly via jphlibrary@jpaget.nhs.uk or phone 01493 452409 for more details.