In this issue
News from around the Network
- Programme Manager’s Update
- June 2025 Directors’ Meeting
- Network Strategy 2025 – 2030
- NEW Guidance and Information for CTUs
- Clinical Trial Monitoring Handbook
- Clinical Directors’ Framework
- eTMF Guidance
- Training for Chief Investigators
- EXPLAIN Animations for CTUs
- Trial Methodology Podcast
- Operations and T&F Group Updates
- PeRSEVERE Project Update
- Training & Development Opportunities
- Job Opportunities
Updates from collaborators & stakeholders
Programme Manager’s Update
It’s been a packed and productive period across the Network and we’re excited to share the launch of our new strategy, shaped collaboratively with stakeholders, including Directors, and Exec Group. It’s a values-driven plan that champions sustainability, amplifies the voice of CTUs, and sets a clear priorities for the 5 year period ahead. Our recent Directors’ meeting in June brought some of these priorities to life, with valuable discussions on how we can action these to collectively support CTUs by delivering the strategy’s ambitions.
In the spirit of support, I’m also highlighting the NIHR-funded Explainer project videos—short, animated clips designed to help participants better understand clinical trials.
We’re also celebrating the first output from CING and continued training opportunities for CIs—scroll down for all the details.
The eTMF guidance for CTUs is also now released.
Meanwhile, our groups continue to flourish with national meetings, clinics, and ongoing projects, and with new members joining several groups and some actively seeking volunteers for involvement in projects—see updates from QA, Data & IS, TM, and Stats for more.
Helen Evans
UKCRC Registered CTU Network Programme Manager
Directors’ Meeting – June 2025
The CTU Directors’ Meeting took place in London on 12 June 2025, opening with some reflections from Simon Denegri, Chair of our Executive Group, on the evolving research landscape and the vital role of CTUs within it. This was followed by a whistle stop tour of some of the highlights of the last 6 months by Helen Evans, the Network Programme Manager.
Rustam Al-Shahi Salman led a thought-provoking session on developing the next generation of Chief Investigators, emphasising the need to make this a compelling career path for future research leaders. Alongside this we were pleased to launch the new Clinical Director Framework, developed by our CI Group, which provides guidance on shaping clinical roles and recognising the vital contribution of clinical input. Find out more here.
Siobhan Creanor presented recommendations from the Network’s review of registration criteria, ahead of a roundtable discussion with CTU Directors. The feedback from this session will be considered along with that from a number of the Network’s Operations Groups and a final version presented to the UKCRC in November 2025.
The morning ended with an update on the Greener Trials Initiative, a collaborative effort helping researchers reduce the carbon footprint of clinical trials, led by Lisa Fox at the ICR-CTSU.
With the Network’s 2025–2030 strategic plan recently published (see here for more), CTU Directors and other delegates were able contribute to shaping the upcoming work plan, ensuring our efforts remain focused and impactful.
The afternoon welcomed representatives from DHSC, including Alex Churchill, Deputy Director of Clinical Trials, who shared updates on the UKCRD Programme. These direct conversations between policymakers and CTU Directors continue to be invaluable.
Work on the agenda for the CTU Directors’ Meeting will begin soon. If you’d like to be part of the group shaping the agenda please contact the Secretariat on regctus@leeds.ac.uk.
Launch of the Network’s strategy for 2025 – 2030
On International Clinical Trials Day 2025, we launched a new strategy to shape the Network’s direction through to 2030. This comprehensive roadmap sets out our commitment to becoming a globally recognised leader in designing, delivering, and analysing trials that improve health and social care outcomes for patients and communities.
Read what Network Director Kerry Hood had to say about the vision behind the strategy here.
Download the full strategy document here.
Update to Network website
The Network website has now been updated to make it easier for you to find the guidance and information you need.
Instead of a list of all outputs presented in chronological order, we now have a Guidance Hub where you can easily identify information related to key areas such as Data Management & IS, QA, and Monitoring.
On the subject matter pages, you will find not only guidance developed by the Network, but publications and reports written by our Operations, T&F, and working groups, videos, and links to external resources.
Find out more here: https://ukcrc-ctu.org.uk/guidance-for-ctus/
New Guidance for CTUs
We are exceptionally pleased to announce the release of a number of new and updated resources for CTUs. All items are available via the links below.
We are very grateful to everyone involved in the production of the pieces.
Clinical Trial Monitoring Handbook
The Monitoring Group has released an updated version of the Trial Monitoring Handbook.
Designed for academic trialists, it covers on-site, remote & central monitoring, offering theory, practical tips & real-world examples.
The latest version includes guidance on making monitoring activities more sustainable.
Download your copy here.
Clinical Directors’ Framework
The framework was developed by the Chief Investigators’ Network Group and is intended to: document the different models of clinical input to CTUs that exist in the Network; provide CTUs without clinical input with a framework to inform them if they wished to consider setting up a clinical director/equivalent role; and enable CTUs with a clinical director/equivalent role to reflect on their model in the light of the others available.
The document is accompanied by redacted examples of a variety of role/job descriptions for directors that were kindly shared by CTU Directors as part of the consultation that informed this framework
Download your copy here.
eTMF Guidance
We are exceptionally pleased to announce that the Network’s guidance on the use of use of document management systems to provide eTMF capability has now been published. The document includes a review of the published guidance, highlighting key requirements and identifying pragmatic and practical implementation suggestions within an academic CTU.
The information can be adapted and used as a starting point to create either:
~ a specification to develop bespoke software solutions, or
~ a vendor and risk assessment tool to assess the suitability of existing software and their implementation at a CTU.
This document is intended to provide a guide for CTUs to start from, but it should be noted that the MHRA are not able to endorse a solution which is not validated specifically for the intended purpose. It is therefore stressed that this is not an exhaustive list of implementation suggestions.
Download your copy here.
Training for Chief Investigators
The Network ran three How to be a Good CI workshops during 2024 in association with Leeds CTRU, Nottingham CTU, and the Centre for Trials Research in Cardiff. Over 100 delegates took part across the three sessions.
The response was overwhelmingly positive and we are pleased to say that more sessions are being planned for 2025 and 2026, under the name How to be a GREAT CI for clinical trials. The first workshop of this year took place in Leeds on 1 May 2025. The next will take place in Glasgow in October 2025. Check our website for details or follow us on LinkedIn or BlueSky for updates.
Thank you to all the units who will be taking part in the programme over the next few years. We look forward to working with you to build increased resilience and capacity in the Chief Investigator community.
Generic trial animations available for use across the Network
At the end of 2022, three CTUs from the network (Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit (OCTRU), Nottingham CTU, and Cardiff Centre for Trials Research received funding from the NIHR Efficient Clinical Trials Call for the EXPLAIN initiative (https://explain.octru.ox.ac.uk/). The EXPLAIN initiative was funded around the topic of Animated Explainer Videos (AEVs) – short videos/animations (up to 2 minutes) which can be used to help individuals understand more about taking part in a trial.
The team surveyed the network about their use of AEVs and of the 35 CTUs that replied found that they had already been used by 24 CTUs. AEVs were being used both for generic trial topics and also for the specifics of an individual trial to either explain the rationale for the trial or the interventions. For the 11 CTUs not using the technology at the time of the survey the most common reasons cited were a lack of expertise and lack of resources including the costs to produce them.
The EXPLAIN initiative funded the production of 3 AEVs on generic clinical trial topics in multiple languages to be made available free of charge to all CTUs across the network. Through a modified Delphi survey, the EXPLAIN team also asked key trial stakeholders (including patients, site staff, and CTU staff trial) to rate generic trial topics which they thought would be useful to be produced into AEVs.
The Delphi resulted in the creation of 3 AEVs, co-produced with patient partners who participated in the survey: What is informed consent? What is randomisation? and Safety in clinical studies. All 3 AEVs are available in English, Welsh, Romanian, Polish, Panjabi, and what we think might be the first-time usage for such AEVs, in British Sign Language. All are also available with subtitles in each of the languages.
To view the English versions of the animations please visit https://explain.octru.ox.ac.uk/animations.html and to request copies for any of your trials or CTU websites please complete the request form on that page.
The team will be looking at the usage of the animations – collecting metrics of their access and will also use a short questionnaire 12 months after creating individual links to each AEV to assess the usage and trial teams comments on the value of each AEV on their trial. The EXPLAIN team wish to express their thanks to every CTU that responded to the survey, those that participated in the Delphi, and most important the PPI partners who co-produced the AEVs.
Introducing the Trials Methodology Podcast
‘What on earth is Trials Methodology and why should we care!?’
These are just a few of the questions Ella Howes and Georgiana Synesi had when they became PhD students on the Trials Methodology Research Partnership Doctoral Training Partnership.
To find out more about this (very complicated sounding!) field, they launched a podcast.
In each episode, Ella and Georgiana talk to a different professional working in the field to ask them about the “Who”, “What”, “When”, “Why” and “How” of trials methodology. To showcase the breadth of trials methodology research, they also interview other TMRP-DTP students about their projects, and life as PhD students.
This podcast was born out of Ella and Georgiana’s curiosity to learn more about this big and important field. It is designed to educate, and most importantly, get people excited about trials methodology!
Listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://linktr.ee/trialsmethodologypodcast
Find Ella and Georgiana on LinkedIn.
This podcast was funded and produced by the MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership (TMRP) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP).
Operations and T&F Group Updates
QA Group Update
QA Clinics
The QA group has now held two of its initial run of three ‘QA Clinics’, as an additional opportunity for QA representatives, and their colleagues, to connect outside the annual, national meeting. The session on 9 April focussed on the forthcoming update to the UK clinical trials regulations, and how CTUs were preparing for their implementation. Over 30 people from across the Network took part.
The second session was held on 1 July and focused on another topic highlighted by QA representatives as a priority: risk management and risk proportionality. On this occasion, monitoring representatives were invited to take part.
If you would like to attend the next session, but have not received an invitation, please email the Secretariat on regctus@leeds.ac.uk.
QA national meeting
Work is well underway on preparing the 2025 QA national meeting. This year, it will be held in Leeds on Thursday 9 October. Attendees will be invited to bring posters to present, if they wish, and they will have the chance to join a networking meeting the evening before. The agenda will be finalised subsequently but is likely to focus on preparations for the new clinical trials regulations.
Handling protocol non-compliance – discussion round-up
At the 2024 QA national meeting, a breakout discussion was held on the topic of handling protocol non-compliance in Network CTUs. In small groups, attendees were asked to consider how different types of protocol non-compliance are classified or defined, and how non-compliance events are documented, processed, triaged and escalated.
Discussion involved comparing and contrasting different approaches. There were many common features of different CTUs’ approaches, particularly in use of significance-based classifications (minor, major critical) and clear escalation pathways. Some differences across CTUs were in how and when a QA team is involved, what other terminology is used, how ‘centralised’ the records are of protocol non-compliance, the use of internal oversight committees to oversee quality issues, and processes around identifying trends in non-compliance data.
Suggested good practice included: considering what trial-specific non-compliances might arise during the protocol development stage, training all staff on identifying and handling non-compliances, encouraging a no-blame, open culture to support issue reporting, and ensuring a focus on ‘errors that matter’.
Following the breakout session, Carrie Bayliss (Cambridge) and Mel Boulter (Nottingham) gave a summary of the Monitoring Group’s work on handling protocol non-compliances (or ‘deviations’), which aims to support CTUs in managing this complex, but critical area of trial conduct. More on this work will be published by the Monitoring Group in due course,
CTIMPs out of secondary care
The working group for this small project has continued to work through different areas of trial conduct, and the regulatory requirements in each, to explore common challenges and potential solutions when running CTIMPs in non-secondary care settings. We have also been engaging with various other individuals and groups who are doing complementary projects in this active area. Next, we intend to summarise our discussions and gather further information through discussions with teams who have run trials in various settings outside of secondary care (e.g. primary care, dentistry and prisons, amongst others).
We are interested to hear from others on this topic. Please get in touch with the project lead and QA Chair, Will Cragg, if you have any questions or comments: w.cragg@leeds.ac.uk.
Planned update to MHRA inspection guidance
We are planning an update to our existing guidance on preparing for MHRA inspections, to incorporate lessons learned since the last update in 2021. We will be seeking further feedback from across the Network in due course, but if you have any initial comments as we prepare the new draft, please get in touch with the QA Chair, Will Cragg, at w.cragg@leeds.ac.uk and also copy in the Secretariat on regctus@leeds.ac.uk. You can download a copy of the current guidance here.
Membership
We are delighted to announce two new members of the QA Group: Andrea Cradduck-Bamford (Oxford CTSU) and Melanie Lewcock (Bristol Trials Centre). Welcome to the team, both!
– Will Cragg (Leeds Clinical Trials Research Unit)
Data & IS Group (DISOG) Update
Webinar Series
From March to July 2025, DISOG organised a series of webinars covering various topics. The first, “Risk-based computer system validation in the world of GCP ICH R3,” was presented by Will Crocombe, an external consultant, it attracted over 150 attendees from QA, TM, Stats, and Monitoring departments. The second webinar explored current database development processes across CTUs, aiming to assess the extent of agile database development techniques in use. Last month’s session, “Electronic audit trail review for academic CTUs,” featured speakers from two CTUs and Jennifer Neilson of Lundbeck, co-author of “Getting started with Audit Trail Review in Clinical Trial data: An Essential Guide.” A final webinar in this series being planned and details will be circulated soon.
Data Management Handbook
Work has been ongoing on the data management guidance documents being developed for data managers working within the academic CTU environment, with 3 chapters almost ready for publication.
Working Group on the use of AI in clinical trials
There has also been a lot of interest in setting up a working group regarding AI; DISOG are taking this forward along with reps from other UKCRC operational groups. The membership, scope and potential outputs for this group will hopefully be agreed soon, and a round table discussion is planned for July 2025.
Engagement with the wider DM/IS community.
One of our main goals is to encourage a strong community network with positive engagement and collaboration, and so we are exploring ways to increase engagement and how to include IS and DM staff beyond the current named representatives on the JISCMail list. The DISOG committee is still committed to taking forward ideas from the national meeting to help improve engagement with the wider DM/IS community and hope to circulate more information on these plans soon.
Membership
We are delighted to announce three new DISOG members: Paigan Aspinal (Peninsula CTU), Karl Rogers (Keele CTU), & Charlotte Stuart (Southampton CTU). Welcome to you all!
We would also like to say a massive thank you to two departing members: Patrick Julier (OCTRU), & Martin Pond (Norwich CTU). They have given a fantastic amount of time and effort to the group over the last 6 years and we will greatly miss their input.
– Amanda Loban (Sheffield Clinical Trails Research Unit), John Turgoose (Hull Health Trials Unit), & Lindsey Masters (MRC CTU at UCL)
Trial Management Group Update
Trial Set-up
The survey that went out to CTU Operational Leads in March of this year is just on the final stages of being written up to be shared across the network. There are some interesting findings that we hope will be useful in negotiations with funders regarding trial period set-up.
National Meeting
Earlier this year the group polled members to identify suitable dates and locations for our national meeting. Thank you so much to everyone who responded. We’re very grateful for your input.
Having reviewed the feedback, we have decided that holding an online meeting would be the best option for 2025. Not only is it greener – but we also hope that this will make the meeting more accessible increase the number of trial managers who can take part and benefit from all the expertise the Network has to offer.
More information will follow in due course, but, in the meantime, we will be contacting the people who volunteered to lead sessions.
Membership
The group’s membership has recently been through some changes, with a number of people reaching the end of their terms, taking leave, or otherwise having to step back. We were very grateful, therefore, that Claire Cantley (CaCTUS) agreed to extend her membership for 6 months to help onboard our new members.
We were overwhelmed with the amount of interest during the nominations exercise in the spring and making the final selection was exceptionally difficult. We are very excited to be able to confirm that our newest members are Sonia Fox (CRUK CTU), Hugh Jarrett (Nottingham CTU), Rachel Lowe (Centre for Trials Research), and Matt Northgraves (Hull Health Trials Unit). We’re really looking forward to working with them!
– Vicki Barber – Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit
Statistics Group Update
Webinar Series
Last autumn we launched a series of webinars to enable more network colleagues to join in than can attend our national meeting. Upcoming ones being organised are on a range of topics including anonymisation of data, use of factorial designs in late phase randomised controlled trials, designing follow-up trials, incorporating historical information in a trial, and ethical challenges for clinical trial statisticians. We also hosted a webinar that was open to all CTU staff on the FACTS project (Flourishing as Clinical Trial Staff) led by Nottingham CTU. This was attended by over 300 people!
The next confirmed webinar will be on 17 July 2025 from 12.30 to 13:30, and will be led by Deborah Ashby, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London. Deborah has kindly agreed to reprise her keynote address from the ICTMC 2024 entitled Bayesian Approaches to Randomised Trials: Celebrating the Past 30 Years, Looking Forward to the Future. Registration is open to all CTU-based staff via the event website: https://tinyurl.com/2mrt7xyz.
Annual National Meeting
The annual national meeting took place in Oxford on 26 June 2025. Items on the agenda included an update on a project collating training materials for clinical trial statisticians, a roundtable discussion on the use of AI (including a live demonstration of a bot developed by OCTRU to create Statistical Analysis Plans), a review of statistical analyses, an update on SPIRIT / CONSORT guidelines, and a look at some of the issues around Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement.
Promotional Materials
Last year we refreshed our promotional materials aimed at attracting people to consider a career as a statistician in an academic trials unit. Colleagues from various CTUs kindly contributed profiles and the materials were made available, and were well received, at the PSI Careers Fair held in London last November. These are also available on our website: https://ukcrc-ctu.org.uk/stats-careers/.
Induction and training materials for new statisticians
We have a task group compiling induction checklists sent to us from 10 different CTUs into one document which any CTU will be able to use with new trial statisticians to record on-the-job training and experience. A draft of the template was made available for comment at the national meeting and a copy has now been circulated to units to pilot. Email the Secretariat on regctus@leeds.ac.uk if you would like a copy.
Additionally, we are collating a list of training materials which CTUs have developed or use with their new statisticians. Our aim is to create a repository which network colleagues can access and also offer up new materials for. Seven CTUs responded to us last year but we are still keen to hear from a wider range of units.
Membership
Over the last six years we’ve benefitted from the involvement and leadership of Catherine Hewitt (York Trials Unit) and Natalie Rowland (Birmingham CTU). We’re really going to miss their input and their insight. At the end of last year Graeme MacLennan (CHaRT) and Louise Stanton (Southampton CTU) also stepped down after serving their full terms. Fortunately, interest in joining the group was very high and we are pleased to welcome Justin Fenty (York Trials Unit), Piers Gaunt (CRUK CTU), Catriona Keerie( Edinburgh CTU), Rachel Phillips (Imperial CTU) to the team.
New activities
The Group is now considering new projects, so if you would like to make a suggestion about what we could tackle next, please contact the Secretariat on regctus@leeds.ac.uk.
– Stephen Bremner (Brighton & Sussex CTU) & Jo Haviland (Pragmatic CTU)
Policy Group Update
The Policy Group continues to engage with key national stakeholders, including the DHSC, MHRA, and NIHR, to represent the interests of the CTU community. We also participate regularly in the HRA’s Study Set Up Partnership Board meetings to ensure ongoing input from the Network.
We continue to respond to relevant consultations on behalf of the Network and, earlier this year, collaborated with the Good Clinical Trials Collaborative to submit a coordinated response to the MHRA’s consultation on the ICH E6 (R3) Guideline for Good Clinical Practice Annex-2. The MHRA used submissions to this consultation to provide UK stakeholder feedback to the ICH.
In February 2025, we attended a Clinical Trials Guidance webinar hosted by the MHRA and HRA, which covered key areas such as applying for trial approval, modifying trials, and reporting safety issues. This session informed our detailed response to the HRA’s consultation on its draft guidance aligned with the new regulations. The webinar is available to view here.
We are also pleased to confirm that the hotly anticipated guidance on using document management systems to provide eTMF capability has now been published. Download your copy here.
– Claire Snowdon (ICR-CTSU)
Monitoring Group Update
Monitoring Clinics
At our first monitoring clinic of 2025, we discussed trial monitoring plans – when we aim to, and when we do, write them, and what to do when you can’t keep up with them. Most have monitoring plans written to obtain the greenlight and all have plans before patient recruitment. If it is found that that it is not possible to achieve the contents of the trial monitoring plan, then an assessment needs to be done, and the trial monitoring plan updated.
At the clinic in April 2025, we discussed monitoring consent and reconsent following significant amendments affecting trial conduct.
Further sessions are planned for later in the year, so ask your CTU monitoring lead for the TEAMS link if you would like to join in the conversation. Please email s.love@ucl.ac.uk if you would like a particular subject to be covered in future clinics.
National monitoring meeting
The national monitoring meeting was held in June 2025. The event took place in hybrid format with 21delegates attending in person and 98 joining online. There were a range of thought-provoking presentations and opportunities to share experiences with others. Highlights included deep dive into the monitoring of de-centralised and platform trials and an update from Andy Fisher of the MHRA, followed by the opportunity to be and MHRA inspector for an hour. A big thank you to all our presenters and facilitators!
Accessing monitoring guidance
The registered CTU website has been updated and the monitoring items all gathered together at https://ukcrc-ctu.org.uk/clinical-trial-monitoring/. Along with the monitoring metrics and triggers tool and the updated monitoring handbook, there is the greener monitoring document which was mentioned in the House of Lords discussion of the new clinical trial regulatory requirements.
Do contact the UKCRC network at rectus@leeds.ac.uk if you want to become actively involved in any monitoring projects.
– Sharon Love (MRC CTU at UCL)
PPI&E Group Update
The PPIE Task and Finish Group recently circulated a Training Needs Survey to collect information from all UKCRC Registered Trials Units on the level of training currently offered and to identify the training needs of trial management teams in relation to PPI&E and provide recommendations for future training resources and materials. The responses to the survey are currently being analysed by the T&F group and highlights will be made public in the future, along with their recommendations.
The T&F group continue to work towards access to the central repository of documents which will be made available to all UKCRC registered Trial Unit staff
– Sally Hopewell (Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit) and Laura Farrelly (MRC CTU at UCL)
PeRSEVERE Project Update
The PeRSEVERE (PRincipleS for handling end-of-participation EVEnts in clinical trials REsearch) Project Group has published a new paper describing the development of the PeRSEVERE Principles & Guidance.
Click here to find out more.
Training & Development Opportunities
The Network, and its member CTUs, are committed to sharing their knowledge of best practice in clinical trials research from the absolute fundamentals of trial development and management to the use of the latest novel trial designs.
You can find out about some of the upcoming learning and development opportunities taking place across the Network here.
Job Opportunities
Working in an an academic or non-commercial CTU can offer you exciting opportunities that may not be available to you elsewhere. These range from publishing your research, presenting at national or international conferences, or teaching the next generation of researchers, as well as making a positive difference to patient and public health.
You can find out more about current vacancies across the Network here.
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UK Trial Managers’ Network Update
UKTMN Chair – Welcome Sarah Lawton
On 3 June 2025 at the UKTMN Annual Conference, we announced that Sarah A Lawton (Head of Operations, Keele Clinical Trials Unit) had officially taken the role of Chair of the UKTMN, following a period of handover from her predecessor Eleanor Mitchell.
We’re delighted to welcome Sarah to her position and look forward to seeing how the UKTMN can thrive with her leadership.
You can read more, including an introduction from Sarah by visiting our NEWS PAGE
UKTMN ASPIRE leadership programme
The UKTMN ASPIRE leadership programme, tailored for trial management and the first of its kind, kicked off in February 2025 as Cohort 1 met in Manchester for session 1.
We were delighted to welcome the delegates with an evening meal, including an inspiring speech from Lucy Chappell (Chief Scientific Advisor to DHSC and CEO for the National Institute for Health Research) and Eleanor Mitchell (Chair of the UKTMN) before starting session 1 on their second day. We are looking forward to seeing the cohort develop over their time in the 6-month programme.
The application window to apply to join Cohort 2 of the UKTMN ASPIRE Leadership programme has closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted an application!
All applications are currently under review by members of the UKTMN Professional Development Group, with an outcome for each applicant expected by week commencing 7 July 2025.
UKTMN Training
Following the results of the UKTMN training survey completed in 2024, the UKTMN training group are working hard to address the training needs of UKTMN members. Several courses are being delivered this year including Introduction to grant writing, how to be a good trial manager, principles of costing a trial, introduction to statistics for trial management and recruitment and retention. We are also working on developing a new training session for managing international trials, and recently held an online event for members to learn more about using routine healthcare data. More information about UKTMN training can be found on our website: https://www.tmn.ac.uk/resources/uktmn-training–
UKTMN Subscriber
Those who work outside the trial management profession can now subscribe to the UKTMN! You will receive key news and updates from the UKTMN, staying in the loop with UKTMN activities and news from the trial management community.
Find out more here: https://www.tmn.ac.uk/pages/2-join-the-uktmn
UKTMN on LinkedIn
The UKTMN are now on LinkedIn – connect with us! https://www.linkedin.com/in/uk-trial-managers-network-646b84340/
To find out more about the UKTMN
Email: uktmn@nottingham.ac.uk
Web: www.tmn.ac.uk
NHS DigiTrials Update
NHS DigiTrials Taking Applications for Next Three Years of Clinical Research
NHS DigiTrials is launching a new round of expressions of interest for clinical trials, building on our recent success in recruiting 1.3m volunteers for clinical trials and health research to date. Our service helps researchers identify and contact suitable NHS patients, enabling faster, fairer recruitment at scale.
Applications for new trials recruiting in financial year 2025/26 closed on 11 April 2025. Expression of interest for trials running in FY 26/27 and FY 27/28 will remain open.
Don’t miss this opportunity to accelerate your research and improve patient outcomes through NHS DigiTrials’ proven recruitment service. Learn more: www.digital.nhs.uk/digitrials-expressionofinterest.
NIHR Update
NIHR Research Delivery Network announces new integrated ways of working
The research needs of the UK health and care system have evolved, and will continue to do so. The NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN), will enable more types of research to take part in a wider range of health settings. So clinical, public health and social care research will happen in hospitals, primary care, community and residential settings. In doing so, the RDN will bring together support and optimise impact for areas that were previously separated.
To enable this, new ways of working have been announced. These are the result of significant and sustained engagement with RDN staff, stakeholders and customers.
Find out more here: https://rdn.nihr.ac.uk/news/nihr-research-delivery-network-announces-new-integrated-ways-working.
Support NIHR’s Be Part of Research campaign
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Be Part of Research makes it easier than ever to find and take part in health and care research. The free online service matches volunteers to health and care studies, based on your interests, taking place online or at locations near you.
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