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Scotland’s health informatics capabilities
Scotland has one of the most highly developed health informatics systems in the world and a long tradition of using linked health service data for research including: Evaluating interventions to deliver patient benefit Measuring long-term outcomes in clinical trials Assessing the safety of new medical interventions Supporting understanding of patterns of health and illness across the whole population. Few other countries have systems that...
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SDRN Executive Group members Professor Rory McCrimmon NRS Diabetes Lead Clinician Professor Rory McCrimmon trained at the University of Edinburgh and completed his clinical and speciality training in the South-East of Scotland before becoming an NHS Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology at University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, in 2000. In 2002, he joined the faculty at Yale University, Connecticut, to further develop his basic research in the central regulatio...
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Coordinating Centre Professor Jürgen SchwarzeResearch Championjurgen.schwarze@ed.ac.uk Dr Pamela DicksManager/ PPI Leadp.dicks@abdn.ac.uk Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, Craig Research Unit Maggie ConnonLead Paediatric Resea...
Research Support
Glasgow Clinical Research Facility (GCRF) is a state of the art, purpose-built facility, complete with technical equipment to support high-quality research. The GCRF comprises of an adult and paediatric facility at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and an adult facility the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Each facility provides high-quality clinical spaces and outreach services where patients and healthy volunteers can take part in international clinical research studies. All research is co...
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Useful links International Association for the Study of Pain North British Pain Association The British Pain Society
What Happens to my Tissue?
Often doctors need to remove tissue as part of your treatment, for example during a surgical operation. Alternatively, they might take a small sample to help them find out what might be wrong with you (tissue collected for this reason is called a 'biopsy'). The samples that the NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Biorepository Network collects is material that is removed during a patient's routine clinical procedure, and which is surplus after all the necessary diagnostic tests have been concluded. O...
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NHS Research Scotland Cancer Research Network, Clinical Lead Prof Jeff Evans j.evans@beatson.gla.ac.uk Professor Jeff Evans is Professor of Translational Cancer Research, School of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow; Honorary Consultant in Med...
Glasgow Clinical Research Facility
The Glasgow Clinical Research Facility (GCRF) was established in 2006 with funding from the Scottish Government via the Chief Scientist Office. It provides state-of-the-art research space across several geographical sites including the £5million Clinical Research Facility at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus. The Service provided by the CRF embeds research into clinical practice, ensuring that clinical research is a cornerstone of patient-centred healthcare develop...
