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NIHR Flexibility and Sustainability Funding | Eastern Region Diabetes Local Research Network | West Anglia Comprehensive Local Research Network |
The West Anglia Comprehensive Local Research Network (CLRN) is one of 25 CLRNs across England and The Eastern Region Diabetes Local Research Network is part of one of the 6 Topic Specific Networks. All these Networks form part of The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Comprehensive Clinical Research Network (CCRN). CCRN was created as part of the government’s research and development strategy to provide a world-class infrastructure for clinical trials in all areas of disease and clinical need within the NHS.
The aims of CCRN are:
- To ensure that patients and healthcare professionals from all parts of the country and from all areas of healthcare can take part in and benefit from clinical research
- To improve the quality, speed and coordination of clinical research by removing the barriers to research within the NHS
- To streamline and performance manage NHS support for clinical studies to ensure that the costs of research are met in a timely and efficient manner
- To unify and streamline administrative procedures associated with regulation, governance, reporting and approvals
- To strengthen research collaboration with industry and ensure that the NHS can meet the health research needs of industry
- To further integrate health research and patient care.
In order to achieve these aims, CCRN:
- Provides an excellent clinical research infrastructure to support a high quality portfolio of clinical research studies and facilitate patient participation into studies
- Provides those NHS Service Support Costs which were previously provided through other NHS R&D funding streams
- Provides and deploys resources for research management in order to ensure that the research portfolio is delivered to the highest standards of research governance.
NIHR Flexibility and Sustainability Funding (FSF)
NIHR FSF is a funding stream introduced by the Department of Health in 2008 in order to attract, develop and retain the research workforce necessary for delivering high-quality health research. It’s available to research-active NHS organisations and to all NIHR research networks.
The funding is for up to one year, and can only be used to fund salary costs.
Please note that West Anglia CLRN and Eastern Region DRN are no longer accepting applications for FSF for the current financial year.
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Eastern Region Diabetes Local Research Network
The Diabetes Research Network (DRN) supports clinical research into diabetes in the UK. Working together with people with diabetes, their carers, the public, clinicians and researchers, the DRN's primary goal is to achieve benefits for people with diabetes, or at risk of developing diabetes, through excellence in clinical research.
The network aims to achieve this by facilitating well-designed studies of diabetes, including those for prevention, diagnosis and treatment. The Eastern Region Diabetes Local Research Network provides support to local studies in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex.
West Anglia Comprehensive Local Research Network
For further information on how West Anglia CLRN implements the NIHR CCRN agenda, please visit their website:
For an application form and guidance on how to apply for West Anglia funded NHS support costs please use the link below:
> West Anglia CLRN funding
