​Clinical Managers and Directors

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Divisional/Service level managers/Clinical Directors

Where you can make a difference:

• Ensuring there is a divisional research plan in line with trust strategy. Including research in divisional team reviews and CPD. Encouraging, supporting, and enabling research to happen. 
• Ensuring clinical staff are aware of recruiting studies relevant to their areas of work.  This helps to encourage referrals through to specialist research staff who undertake screening and discuss studies with suitable patients who may be interested in taking part.

Your influence is high in: 

• supporting recognition that research is an essential component of best patient care in your division. 
• enabling divisional staff  to have capacity to support research 
• encouraging a  strong evidence based culture in clinical practice.

Key message: "Research can help you identify effective and cost efficient treatments, processes and systems."

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Media, tools, support and links

Using research evidence and applied health research:

• Find out how the Library & Knowledge Service can support you with research and publication 
• Search for research evidence through the NIHR site
• View Collaborating in Applied Health Research (NIHR)

Support:

• Working with your Trust R&D team and NIHR 
• Talk to your divisional manager
• Research Support Service (NIHR) for help with a new study idea 
• Career development in research (NIHR):links on the NIHR website
• Good Clinical Practice (GCP) (NIHR): the basics for undertaking research.