SPCRN
Local Nodes
Contact details
For SPCRN contact details click the following link - Contacts
Map of coverage
| Node | NHS Board Areas covered |
| West | Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Ayrshire & Arran, Lanarkshire, Forth Valley and Dumfries and Galloway |
| East | Tayside and Fife |
| North | Highland, Western Isles |
| North East | Grampian, Orkney & Shetland |
| South East | Lothian and Borders |
What do the nodes do?
Below is a formal list of what nodes are required to do as part of SPCRN. To find out more, you can contact your local SPCRN contact person , or Dr Alison Hinds, at a.hinds@sspc.ac.uk
- Recruitment of practices and professionals for high quality studies of relevance to primary care. For example, liaising with Principal Investigators to clarify protocols and expectations, and undertake practice visits as necessary to explain protocols to research interested professionals.
- Provide help to practices in the recruitment of patients to these studies.
- Trouble-shoot where recruitment of practices or professionals is problematic. For example, monitoring the involvement of recruited practices and professionals in studies and taking steps to remedy any problems that occur.
- Being a contact point for local Principal Investigators who require recruitment of practices or professionals into a study.
- Provision of feedback to SPCRN members (individuals/practices) and their involvement in every study undertaken by the network.
- Contribute to the maintenance and development of a national database of primary care research activity in Scotland.
- Calculate the costs of involving primary care staff in research and arranging their reimbursement from the NHS support cost budget for eligibly funded studies.
- Contribute to the national SPCRN team, working with other regional nodes, SSPC central staff and other networks in Scotland.
- Annual reporting of activities.
