Research
Description
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is committed to developing and undertaking research programmes that enable us to deliver high quality, evidence-based care and services to people in our local community. Our aims are to:
- Produce high quality research that will benefit local services and local people but will also make a significant contribution to building the evidence base.
- Build a strong link between research and practice that allows ideas for research to be generated, and develops research results into best practice.
- Contribute to a national profile in mental health, learning disability and primary care research.
- Facilitate collaborations between academic partners and aim to attract increased funding and high calibre research and researchers.
- Actively include service users and carers at all levels of research activity.
To help us achieve this, our dedicated team of research professionals support high quality health research that reflects the diversity of our local population and paves the way for next generation care.
The primary aim of research is to derive ‘new generalisable knowledge.’ To help you define whether your project is research, service evaluation or audit, please consult the document below:
Types of research, service evaluation and audit with contacts.
Is my project Research? Guidance and a decision tool to determine if your project is research and requires Research Ethics Committee review. More detailed guidance can be found here.
If it is a Service Evaluation piece of work please register with Audit by completing the Service evaluation registration form.
You can then write your research proposal. We’ve written some guidance on Writing your research proposal link which you might find useful. For all other support and guidance, please use the links below to take you to relevant information. Visit the Policies and procedures page.
Pages for approved Trust documents
Initial guidances for students
Detailed information for researchers
Obtaining approval for your project
UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research
Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training
Public involvement in research
Obtaining sponsorship from the Trust
Calculate how many patients/participants you need in a study
Research at Bradford District Care Trust is essential to help shape and improve our services. It is really important to us that these studies are appropriate for our community and reflect what our patients need. As such we really appreciate people getting involved at all levels. You can find out more about how you can take part in research with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust by taking a look at our taking part in research leaflet.
You can see more information about the Trust’s policy for involving the public and patients on our get involved pages.
There is an group called INVOLVE that’s a national advisory group that supports greater public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research. For further information visit their website.
Current studies
We are currently taking part in a number of projects which are continuously being updated as we get involved in most studies.
If you think that you would be eligible to take part in any studies please contact your care team.
The Government wishes to see a dramatic and sustained improvement in the performance of providers of NHS services in initiating and delivering clinical research with the aim to increase the number of patients who have the opportunity to participate in research. As part of its research performance reporting to the Department of Health under the ‘performance in initiating and delivering clinical research initiative’, we are required to publish the following information:
- Recruitment to clinical trials, namely whether the 70-day benchmark to recruit first patient into the trial has been met (performance in initiating clinical research)
- Recruitment to time and target for commercial contract clinical trials (performance in delivering clinical research).
The policy framework applies to health and social care research involving patients, service users or their relatives or carers. This includes research involving them indirectly, for example using information that the NHS or social care services have collected about them.
The Health Research Authority and the health departments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have developed the policy framework following public consultation. It replaces the separate Research Governance Frameworks in each UK country with a single, modern set of principles for the whole UK.
These principles protect and promote the interests of patients, service users and the public in health and social care research, by describing ethical conduct and proportionate, assurance-based management of health and social care research, so as to support and facilitate high-quality research in the UK that has the confidence of patients, service users and the public.
It is for organisations and individuals that have responsibilities for health and social care research. This includes funders, sponsors, researchers and their employers, research sites and care providers.