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  • RFT R&D Department
    • About RFT R&D
    • Who's who
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    • NIHR support
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    • Red4Research 2024
  • Why research matters
    • Clinical research in the NHS
    • Why research is important
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    • Key messages
  • Departments
    • All Departments
    • Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine & Pain Management
    • Breathing Space
    • Cancer
    • Cardiovascular Medicine
    • Critical Care
    • Dermatology
    • Ear, Nose & Throat Surgery
    • Emergency Medicine
    • Gastroenterology & Colorectal
    • Haematology
    • Infectious Diseases
    • Mental Health
    • Neurology
    • Nutrition & Dietetics
    • Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Reproductive Health
    • Ophthalmology
    • Oral Medicine
    • Orthopaedics
    • Paediatrics
    • Physiotherapy
    • Public Health
    • Respiratory Medicine
    • Rheumatology
    • Sexual Health
    • Speech & Language
    • Surgical
    • Urology
  • Your role in research
    • Clinical staff
    • Other patient contact roles
    • Communications
    • Clinical management
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    • Trust executives & senior management

​Trust Executives, Board Members and Senior Managers


Trust Chair

Where you make a difference:
Setting the tone for the organisation that clinical research is integral to best patient care.

Your influence is high in:
  • Ensuring that clinical research activity is reported to the board alongside other clinical performance measures.
  • Raising awareness with leaders that evidence shows there is a correlation between level of research activity in Trusts and overall patient outcomes.

Executives

Where you make a difference:
  • ensuring there is a research strategy and plan with impact measures. Progress to be routinely reported by divisional leads, and R&D and actions recorded.

Your influence is high in:
  • inspiring and ensuring support for an embedded and active research culture contributing to patient care in the organisation including at middle management level and across all corporate and clinical teams.
​Key message: Evidence shows that trusts with high levels of clinical research activity have better patient outcomes (e.g. lower mortality rates).

(See all Key Messages)

Non-Executive Board Members

​Where you make a difference: 
  • Keeping a watching brief  on development of a strong research culture and ensuring a  research strategy and plan is reported against by departments at Board meetings and issues followed up.

Your influence is high in:
  • highlighting the need for building a strong clinical research culture in your Trust
  • ensuring systems for reporting research  activity and impact are followed through.

Senior Managers

Where you make a difference: 
  • Having an awareness of research and its importance in the trust. Knowing about the requirements of the trust research strategy and plan and following them up. 

Your influence is high in:
  • Your influence can be high in integrating research plans into clinical areas, thus enabling units and teams to have research active capacity.

Media, Tools and supporting links


  • Evidence for the impact of research on patient care

  • Key supporter: Director of R&D and R&D team.

  • Enabling NHS staff to contribute to research: reflecting on current practice and informing future opportunities
    RAND Europe, 2018

  • CQC Trust-wide Well Led Framework ​(see section W8)
    Care Quality Commission, 2018

  • Research and innovation to drive future outcomes improvement
    ​NHS Long Term Plan, Chapter 3: Further progress on care quality and outcomes: Better care for major health conditions (NHS England, 2019). ​​
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