Contents of the July issue of CRfocus

The July issue of CRfocus has a theme of process modelling, with expert authors explaining how you can use them to make your SOPs more useful as training tools, see the “big picture” where processes or departments interact, and optimise your whole business process.

We also have plenty of survey results to look at this month: Paul Chester and Tania Worth present a survey on team morale and study performance, Samyuktha Ajay and Arun Bhatt look at skill requirements at sites in India, and Arun Acharjya discusses the results of the ICR Research Nurses survey.

Also in this issue, we interview Louise Wood, Head of Innovation and Industray R&D Relations at the Department of Health, about the ongoing changes to the NHS research environment, report on a joint conference between ICR and EMWA on ethical issues in publishing clinical trials, and we take a closer look at the Chartered Scientist designation.

You can find out how to receive your copy, or read articles online, at www.crfocus.org.

Ask Louise Wood

In a few weeks time, I will be interviewing Louise Wood, Head of Industry/R&D Relations at the UK Department of Health. I expect our conversation to traverse the recent updates in the UK clinical R&D environment, the UKCRC, UKCRN etc.

But what do you want to know? Please send me any questions you’d like me to ask Louise, and I’ll try to ask her.

The interview is scheduled to be published in the July issue of CRfocus, with  an extended audio interview available from the website (www.crfocus.org).