The Network’s Operations Groups provide opportunities for professional development through peer-to-peer support, networking events, the creation of training and guidance materials and sharing learning and best practice.
Each Operations Group leads a programme of work with the aims of;
- Identifying challenges and developing solutions together
- Highlighting challenges which require a policy response
- Identifying opportunities to improve efficient trial conduct
- Sharing best practice and developing practical guidance on good research practice and quality standards for non-commercial trials
- Contributing to national and internationally led new initiatives within the clinical research community; and
- Representing the views of Registered CTUs.
The Operations Groups develop an annual programme of individual and cross-Group deliverables to support these aims. These deliverables are agreed with the UKCRC CTU Executive Group. The Operations Groups’ activities are underpinned by a set of General Terms of Reference along with Supplementary Terms of Reference which are specific to each Group.
Groups often set up sub- or working groups to deal with specific short-term projects such as the development of a discrete piece of guidance. You can find out a bit more about the currently active groups via the links below.
Statistics – Membership
Catherine Hewitt (Chair) – York Trials Unit
Natalie Rowland (Deputy Chair) – Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit
Michele Robertson – Glasgow Clinical Trials Unit
Louise Stanton – Southampton Clinical Trials Unit
Graeme MacLennan – Centre for Healthcare Randomised Trials (CHaRT)
Jo Haviland – Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit
Stephen Bremner – Brighton and Sussex CTU
Data & Information Systems – Membership
Tim Chater (Chair) – Liverpool Clinical Trials Centre
Amanda Loban (Joint Deputy Chair) – Sheffield Clinical Trials Research Unit
John Turgoose (Joint Deputy Chair – Hull Health Trials Unit
Patrick Julier – Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit
Martin Pond – Norwich Clinical Trials Unit
Lindsey Masters – MRC CTU at UCL
Vanessa Gregory – Diabetes Trials Unit
Nigel Kirby – Centre for Trials Research
Quality Assurance – Membership
Will Cragg (Chair) – Leeds Clinical Trials Research Unit
Claire Johnson (Deputy Chair) – Liverpool Clinical Trials Centre
Gail Holland – Swansea Clinical Trials Unit
Sara Yeats – Southampton Clinical Trials Unit
Emily Swinburne – Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit
Conor McKee – Northern Ireland Clinical Trials Unit
Jill Fleming – CaCTUS
Eloise Britten – Imperial Clinical Trials Unit
Trial Management – Membership
Jaclyn Bailey (Chair) – Warwick Clinical Trials Unit
Claire Cantley (Deputy Chair) – CaCTUS
Alexa Gillman – Institute of Cancer Research Clinical Trials & Statistics Unit
Ana Boshoff – Imperial Clinical Trials Unit
Carla Richardson – Leicester Clinical Trials Unit
Alison Jenkins – NWORTH
Vicki Barber – Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit
Gina Cranswick – Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit
Natalie Wakefield – UK Trial Managers’ Network Representative
Policy – Membership
Claire Snowdon (Chair) – Institute of Cancer Research Clinical Trials & Statistics Unit
Carrol Gamble (Deputy Chair) – Liverpool Clinical Trials Centre
Anna Hockaday – Leeds Clinical Trials Research Unit
John Petrie – Glasgow Clinical Trials Unit
Fiona Hogarth – Tayside Clinical Trials Unit
Lucy Culliford – Bristol Trials Centre
Monitoring – Membership
Sharon Love (Chair) – MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL
Andrea Corkhill (Deputy Chair) – Southampton Clinical Trials
Carrie Bayliss – Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit
Jo Grumett – Warwick Clinical Trials Unit
Krista Wills – CR UK & UCL Cancer Trials Centre
Patricia Rafferty – Northern Ireland Clinical Trials Unit
Melanie Boulter – Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit
Lisa Fox – The Institute of Cancer Research Clinical Trials & Statistics Unit
Cara Mooney / Lizzie Swaby – Sheffield Clinical Trials Research Unit
Emma Laing – Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre
