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Mental Health
Mental Health is one of the major public health challenges in Scotland. Around one in four people are estimated to be affected by mental ill-health in any one year. Scotland’s mental health research community is active in leading research in areas such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, depression, addictions and psychosis. The NRS Mental Health Network provides support to improve the quality and quantity of research and promote ...
NRS Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Update
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Induction Three: In Pursuit of Perfection: Delivering quality research
Metabolic and Endocrine
Our role is to support the delivery of high-quality clinical research in Metabolic and Endocrine Disorders and manage participant recruitment to time and target, both for studies which are led from Scotland, and studies led from other nations which Scottish sites are participating in. We provide support in the following areas: Managing the study portfolio record Monitoring the attainment of recruitment targets Providing advice on study design and feasibil...
Research Areas
Strong infrastructure and world-class clinical and academic expertise create a vibrant research environment across a number of key therapeutic areas. NHS Research Scotland supports delivery of a range of high-quality studies across a spectrum of disease and clinical need. All research within Scotland lies within the remit of at least one Network or Specialty Grou...
NHS Research Scotland Champion urges action after groundbreaking study into multiple long-term health conditions
A pioneering study led by the NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Primary Care Network Champion has found that certain combinations of long-term health conditions are associated with worse quality of life — but can benefit from tailored treatments and interventions if actioned Dr Bhautesh Jani spearheaded the UK-wide study, entitled ‘Multimorbidity clusters and their associations with health-related quality of life in two UK cohorts’. Its findings suggest that s...
Health Data Research UK Conference 2025
The UK’s No.1 conference on health data science returns for 2025 Join Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) at this two-day hybrid event, 15-16 October, to celebrate the latest advances in health data s...
Musculoskeletal
Our role is to develop and support the delivery of high-quality clinical research in musculoskeletal disease and manage participant recruitment to time and target, both for studies that are led from Scotland, and studies led from other nations in which Scottish sites are participating in. We provide support in the following areas: facilitating research links and networking managing the study portfolio record monitoring the attainment of recruitment targets...
NHS Research Scotland Renal and Diabetes Research Day
Join the NHS Research Scotland Renal Specialty Group and Diabetes Network for a joint event on Thursday 1 May in Perth, at the Concert Hall The joint research day will be an all-day event, starting at 9.30am and concluding at 4.00pm. Registration now open. P...
Supporting Research
Scotland operates a centralised system to support clinical research in Scotland and improve quality, efficiency and co-ordination. Working on a pan-Scotland basis a responsive infrastructure has been implemented to encourage researchers to bring studies to Scotland and ensure that obtaining R&D permission is a smooth and rapid process. This centralised system offers several advantages: Single submission of documents Co-ordinated access to clinical investigators and p...
