Wollaton Park Medical Centre is working in collaboration with the Clinical Research Network: East Midlands (CRN:EM). The CRN:EM is part of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and is focused on enhancing and promoting research, ensuring that it is conducted in line with ethical procedures and for patient benefit. There is a local team working within Nottingham City and Nottingham County, facilitating research within primary care.
Wollaton Park Medical Centre is signed up to a Research Site Initiative Scheme; resulting in them choosing to be involved in appropriate and relevant research studies, focused on enhancing patient care and working on studies that are of particular interest and need for their patient population. The primary care team surpassed recruitment expectations in the financial year of 2014-2015 and this could not have been done without the support of local practices and the engagement from patients in these areas.
Patients could also access the following links for the NIHR (National Institute For Health Research), CRN (Clinical Research Network), ENRICH (Enabling Research in Care Homes) and JDR (Join Dementia Research) :
http://www.nihr.ac.uk/ – National Institute for Health Research
http://www.crn.nihr.ac.uk/ – Clinical Research Network
http://www.enrich.nihr.ac.uk/ – Enrich (Enabling Research in Care Homes)
http://www.crn.nihr.ac.uk/dementia/about-dementia-research/join-dementia-research/ – Information on Join Dementia Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt5FdfsQy_4&feature=youtu.be – promoting Join Dementia Research