Highland Clinical Research Facility
The UHI Clinical Research Facility is housed on the ground floor within the Highland Diabetes Institute in phase III of the new Centre for Health Science building on Raigmore Hospital’s site. The building is funded by Highlands & Islands Enterprise.
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The Clinical Research Facility has been established to provide improved facilities for clinical researchers and to encourage greater participation in all forms of clinical research within Highland region in line with recommendations for Scotland from the Chief Scientist’s Office Scotland, by providing state of the art accommodation and equipment and access to research support staff. While the CRF will be operated by UHI it draws on NHS expertise for contracting specific services such as research nursing and pharmacy staff and is a joint UHI/NHS Highland resource.
A key principle of access to the CRF is that any researcher who needs to utilise the facility will be eligible to request access whether he or she works for UHI, the NHS or another research organisation.
The CRF will be suitable for health care professionals to undertake commercial or non commercial clinical research projects and has a bedded unit with the capacity for overnight studies.
For commercial research projects, a named research nurse will be allocated to the project and will coordinate all aspects of project set up, will manage the project as patients are recruited, will be responsible for data entry and will manage the project close down procedure.
If you would like to support the Highland Clinical Research Facility by becoming a benefactor please visit the UHI Millennium Institute Develop Trust website, email: development@uhi.ac.uk or call 01463 279262.
