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Our Strategic Objectives
- Increase and improve delivery of strategically important trials and trials in our key areas of strength through:
- Developing novel approaches (e.g. digital technology, remote visits, flexible opening hours) to improve access to research.
- Attracting more industry trials by promoting our patient cohorts, expertise and co-located infrastructure
- Encouraging and supporting more NHS clinicians to undertake early phase/experimental medicine studies
- Encouraging skill and personal development, empowering innovation, creating attractive career pathways for all staff groups, promoting staff wellbeing and enabling flexible working where appropriate.
- Linking with other regional and national infrastructure such as NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre (NBRC), NHIP, North East and North Cumbria Clinical Research Network (NENC-CRN) and UKCRF network
- Strengthen patient and public involvement, engagement and participation (PPIEP) through
- Establishing a Patient and Public Advisory Board to existing NCRF governance structure to co-develop strategies and activities
- Broadening NCRF PPIEP membership to include young persons, other underserved population representation and widen geographical reach across the North East of England.
- Working closely with relevant local and national infrastructure to maximise synergy and impact
- Strengthen our Equality, Diversity, Inclusivity (EDI) commitment across all NCRF activities, including
- To recruit a greater and more geographically diverse range of patients to trials, making research more accessible and inclusive
- To implement EDI principles in employment and development opportunities for our delivery workforce.
- To work collaboratively and synergistically with local and national research infrastructure
