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Over £10.8m to support groundbreaking clinical research in Cambridge

CUH has been awarded just over £10.8 million from the National Institute for Health Research to develop new treatments to benefit patients in the East of England.


PONTE update

The presentations from our EU Open Day at CUH are now available for download at the PONTE project website.


Public involvement in research group

Get involved in the design of future health and social care research at the launch of new group on 2 November 2011.


£110 million health research fund confirms elite biomedical status for CUH

Cambridge University Hospitals and the University of Cambridge have been awarded a record share of an £800 million government research fund, confirming the city’s status as one of the country’s elite Biomedical Research Centres.

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Site-Specific Assessment to transfer to R&D office

26 January, 2009

To support the transfer of SSA to R&D offices, the NHS R&D Forum issued a UK-wide Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for SSA by local assessors in R&D offices in May 2007. Since then, a number of Research Ethics Committees (RECs) have transferred the role of provision of advice on the SSA to local R&D offices via a formal agreement using these SOPs.

 

Arrangements are being put in place to support the complete transfer of SSA for NHS sites to R&D offices from 1 April 2009.

 

Read more on National Patient Safety Agency website:
> Bulletin on the Site-Specific Assessment transfer