Sponsorship and Indemnity Policy
Alignment with NIHR Comprehensive Clinical Research Network
Sponsorship and Indemnity Policy
All UK DCTN trials have a designated sponsor and appropriate indemnity cover in place. The choice of sponsor for a particular piece of research depends on several factors and is decided at the time of development.
All trials are managed through the co-ordinating centre at the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology at the University of Nottingham.
Activities supported centrally include:
- Administration and support
- Advice on trial development
- Advertising and fundraising for the network
- Maintenance of the website
- Liaising with recruiting centres
- Maintaining a database of members
- Data management
- Data analysis
- Data monitoring
- Preparing Ethics, Research and Development, and MHRA applications
- Submitting funding applications
- Archiving
- Training/workshops
Alignment with NIHR Infrastructure
The NIHR Comprehensive Clinical Research Network Dermatology Specialty Group has been established to support the delivery of dermatology studies within the NIHR portfolio. The society recognises the importance of this group and aims to work alongside it as a Clinical Studies Group involved in the development of independent dermatology trials.
The Chief Investigator for each trial will take overall responsibility for the design and conduct of the trial.
The Chief Investigator will be expected to fulfil all of the requirements of the chief investigators under the terms of research governance, although some tasks will be delegated to the co-ordinating centre and/or trial managers.
The current remit of the UK DCTN is to answer questions that are important to the NHS through non-industry funded sources, although we plan to develop ways of working with industry colleagues in future. The UK Clinical Research Network (UKCRN) are developing links with industry, see their website at http://www.ukcrn.org.uk/index/industry
