Research & Development Department


The Research & Development Department is a central corporate function within the Trust. The department supports the development of high quality R&D within the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Some of the issues the R&D Department is responsible for are:

Taking an organisational-level lead in ensuring that research is conducted and managed to high scientific standards

Informing researchers of funding opportunities and assisting with the application process

Ensuring that the information requested from researchers is the minimum consistent with the highest standards of research governance

Ensuring all R&D projects in the Trust are appropriately peer reviewed, approved by a Research Ethics Committee, comply with research governance standards and statutory requirements, and notified to the National Research Register

Arranging R&D training for Trust researchers

Negotiating contracts for commercial and non-commercial projects

The department is currently changing considerably due to recently becoming one of five Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centres across the UK

Further information on what this means for researchers will be released in the coming months.

The Cambridge Consortium


Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Cambridge NHS R&D Consortium. The Consortium was formed to establish a strategic basis on which to secure and manage NHS R&D infrastructure support funding.

The Consortium consists of the local NHS trusts of:

Addenbrooke’s Hospital

Papworth Hospital

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Cambridgeshire PCT

 

The aims of the Consortium are:

To offer an enhanced local, regional and national research environment for the undertaking of non-commercially funded NHS research.

To be the vehicle by which the organisations bid for NIHR funding

To work collaboratively with academic and provider units locally, regionally and nationally

In accordance with the NHS Plan, Consortium partners have close collaborative links with the University of Cambridge (graded 5* in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, 5* in Community Based Clinical Subjects, and 5* in Hospital-Based Clinical Subjects), and have also developed partnerships with the private and charitable sectors.

 

Last updated: 29 April, 2007