Research Nurses Network Group

This group promotes quality care for patients involved in early-phase research. It provides peer support, training and guidance for research nurses involved in early-phase and translational research.

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Scope of membership

This group is open to any research nurse working in early-phase cancer research. This includes those working with children, teenagers and young adults and adult patients. Clinical trial practitioners working in early-phase cancer research are also welcome to join.

Remit

  • Contribute to achieving the aims of our network.

  • Identify priorities for the development of the group and take them forward.

  • Facilitate the sharing of expertise and experience across our network and promote collaboration amongst research nurses working in experimental cancer medicine.

  • Produce guidelines and recommendations where required.

  • Work with the programme office to communicate the activities of the group.

  • Collaborate with other research organisations to maximise the group's impact.

  • Raise the profile of early-phase research nurses and our network.

Steering committee

Ben Hood, Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre, Newcastle (Chair)

Linda Gomm, Guy's and St Thomas’ Hospital

Debra Blackstone, Addenbrooke's Hospital

Ruth Boyd, Belfast City Hospital

Ceri Hogg, Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales, Cardiff

Anne Croudass, Cancer Research UK

Tracey Crowe, Royal Marsden Hospital (Children and Young Person's Unit)

Lois Eddie, University of Edinburgh

Katie Gilmour, Velindre Cancer Centre

Eleanor Pearce, The Christie, Manchester

Karen Turner, University of Birmingham

Mary van Zyl, Royal Marsden Hospital

Gemma Wickert, The Christie, Manchester

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