Practical Quality Assurance | Clinical Research Training

Elevating your Practical Quality Assurance for Clinical Research

Past Event

Fri 13 Sep 2024

Like-minded NHS Clinical Research professionals joined from across the UK to level up their quality assurance standards at this immersive study day. Benefitting from new ideas on implementing high quality standards, guidance on preventing mistakes and misconducts, ‘how to’ guidance on mitigating data errors and best practice approaches for enhancing safety reporting, attendees did not miss out! This was a great opportunity to hear from industry leading expert, Karl Ward to identify the right resolutions to challenges in quality assurance.

Key learning outcomes

Participants received invaluable guidance on developing and maintaining high quality in clinical research by diving into:

Understanding the definition of quality and benchmarking with other research teams
Adhering effectively to governance, frameworks and legislation to enhance QA
Identify how to overcome challenges involved in monitoring, audits and inspections to maintain accurate data collection
Guidance on preventing mistakes and misconducts
A ‘how to’ guide on preventing data errors to ensure high quality data
Strategies to remove common quality assurance problems and barriers
Best practice approaches to enhance your safety reporting in clinical research to mitigate harm in clinical practice
Next steps on the practical application of QA to clinical research practice

Developed with convenience in mind

Joined by NHS professionals remotely, this online course enabled participants to take away useful techniques and new skills they are able to use in their day-to-day work routine, plus benefit from:

Evidenced based examples: engage with and learn from your expert leader, Karl Ward
Interactive presentations: investigating strategies to elevate your quality standards
Resource sharing: hear resolutions to common service concerns
Agreed action plan: leave this course with your next steps to elevate quality in your clinical research

This course is available for in-house training

Available as bespoke training to teams of 30+ people. Please do contact us if you would like this course delivered exclusively to your team, with the content developed to drill into the specific needs of your service. Please email Sarah Kemm or call 01732 897788 for further details.

9:00	Registration, technical support and networking opportunity
9:30	Introduction, instructions and chair’s opening remarks Karl Ward, Lead Nurse for Research and Innovation, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT), Lead for the LTHT Research Academy, NIHR Nursing and Midwifery Senior Research Leader and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Defining Quality in Clinical Research
9:40	Understanding quality standards in clinical research and the impact on your service Establishing a foundation: exploring the key aspects of quality in clinical research The importance of implementing QA to consistently maintain high standards in trials Navigating and adhering effectively to governance, frameworks and legislation to enhance quality assurance
10:10	Questions and answers with Karl Ward
10:20	Interactive discussion: Exploring fundamentals: what does quality mean to you? Share what quality means to you in your role and service What aspect of quality assurance is most important to you? How have you prioritised implementing consistent and reliable standards in your work?
10:40	Screen break
10:50	Feedback from interactive discussion: Exploring fundamentals: what does quality mean to you?
The roles of monitoring, audit and inspection
11:00	Monitoring, audit and inspection: maintaining quality and integrity in clinical research Establishing the differences between monitoring, audit and inspection Overcoming the challenges of monitoring, audit and inspection to ensure integrity and accurate data collection Reflecting accuracy of the data: utilising the process of Source Data Verification (SVD) to elevate QA
11:30	Questions and answers with Karl Ward
11:40	Interactive discussion: Guidance on mistakes and misconducts to maintain research integrity Share your experience of mistakes or misconducts you have witnessed and the solutions and safety nets that were implemented What effects have you observed as a result of a mistake or misconduct on the research? What steps were taken to mitigate the consequence of the mistake or misconduct?
12:00	Lunch break
12:30	Feedback from interactive discussion: Guidance on mistakes and misconducts to maintain research integrity
Maintaining data quality and integrity
12:40	‘How to’ guide: preventing data error to ensure high data quality and integrity Navigating data queries and how to mitigate errors to prevent data invalidation Understanding the difference between deviations and violations and their impact on the quality of the data Handling participant data: exploring best practice for maintaining confidentiality in your research
1:10	Questions and answers with Karl Ward
1:20	Interactive activity: Overcoming common QA problem areas Share your challenges and barriers of maintaining quality assurance in your work What steps do you take to overcome these challenges? How do you work collaboratively as a team to improve research standards?
1:40	Screen break
1:50	Feedback from interactive activity: Overcoming common QA problem areas
Safety reporting
2:00	Best practice for enhancing your safety reporting to maintain ethical principles Navigating the purposes of safety reporting within clinical research and clinical practice Mitigating early issues involved in safety reporting to reduce harm during clinical practice Guidance on the practical application of QA to clinical research practice
2:30	Questions and answers with Karl Ward
2:40	Interactive discussion: Reflections on the day: elevating your clinical research standards What are your three main takeaways from this course? How are you doing to implement these takeaways into your clinical research? Share your next steps for elevating quality in your clinical research trials
3:00	Feedback from interactive discussion: Reflections on the day: elevating your clinical research
3:10	Leader’s closing remarks
3:20	Close of day

Bringing a wealth of expertise and knowledge

Karl Ward has been described as a “brilliant presenter, very engaging and informative” and “down to earth”. Karl shared his top tips and first-hand experiences to ensure attendees are able to take their service to the next level in quality assurance.

Karl Ward

Lead Nurse for Research and Innovation (Education)

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Lead for the LTHT Research Academy, NIHR GCP Facilitator and Fellow, Higher Education Academy

Biography

Who came?

Designed for NHS Clinical Research teams who would like to level up their quality assurance and integrity standards in their service, we saw attendance from the likes of:

Heads and Directors of Research
RM&G and Research and Development Managers
Trail Co-Ordinators, Facilitators and Managers
Lead and Senior Research Nurses

If you have a team that is 30 people or more, you can have a bespoke workshop delivered online to your team alone. Please contact Sarah Kemm or telephone 01732 897788.

Past attendee feedback

This event followed on from our previous Clinical Research Leadership and Management training courses which took place in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Don’t take our word for how much past attendees have enjoyed the training, check out the feedback:

'Very engaging and relevant content. The timetable worked very well with bite-sized sessions interspersed with breaks'

- The Princess Alexandra NHS Trust, July 2023

'Very interactive and great to hear from different perspectives of many different professionals'

- Imperial NHS Trust, July 2023

'Karl was very engaging, it made the training far more enjoyable'

- St George's Joint Research and Enterprise Services, July 2023

'Informative, interactive, engaging speaker'

- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, July 2023

'Karl is knowledgeable, engaging and very practical in his ways of working and solutions to problems'

- The Princess Alexandra NHS Trust, July 2023

‘It was extremely well organized and presented’

- University Hospitals Morecambe Bay, June 2022

‘Karl is an excellent presenter. He gave great examples from his own experience. A really enjoyable and informative day. Thank you’

- University Hospitals Morecambe Bay, June 2022

‘Just a huge thank you for a really useful day. It was great to spend time with people who understand the role of research delivery’

- Oxford Health NHS FT, June 2022

'The Speaker has a versatile knowledge on research, kept the course very interesting throughout the day. Very useful, enjoyed the topic on 'Clinical research strategy'-highlights why it is essential, such an eye opener. Helps identify strengths and areas for improvement'

- The Imperial college Healthcare NHS Trust, February 2022

‘Delivered very well. I learnt a lot of stuff that i will be implementing in my work area. Thanks’

- ESNEFT, February 2022

‘Great workshop well organized very informative and well presented’

- National University of Ireland Galway, February 2022

'Brilliant experience, friendly setting where ideas are encouraged and welcomed'