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Commercial Partners

We believe that working together with industry partners is a powerful way to improve patient care and support sustainability. 

We offer access to world-class experts in various clinical fields, dedicated infrastructure for clinical trials and consistent quality care and patient involvement. We are also the first NHS Trust accredited by The Global Clinical Site Assessment Standard.

We can help you with:

  • Providing detailed feasibility and eligibility data for your study using our innovative platforms like TriNetX.
  • Supporting realistic recruitment targets based on the specific incidence and prevalence rates at our Trust.
  • Conducting detailed analyses of our patient cohort to determine actual patient eligibility based on your protocol, using data from our overall RBFT population.

Contact us via researchandinnovation@royalberkshire.nhs.uk to see how we can collaborate with you. 

Our Partners

We work with industry-leading organisations to help us develop new treatments, drugs and therapies here in Reading. In recent years, we have worked with over fifty commercial sponsors and contract research organisations including many of the largest global pharmaceutical manufacturers.

We also have established relationships with the following organisations and platforms to help strengthen our profile both nationally and internationally:

TriNetX

As a member of the TriNetX Premium Trial Site Programme, our site capabilities are promoted to sponsors at a protocol, PI and institutional level as a “clinical trial site of choice”. We also leverage the TriNetX platform to support feasibility and patient recruitment target planning for commercial and non-commercial research opportunities.To find out more how you can use TriNetX, please contact the Research and Innovation department at ResearchAndInnovation@royalberkshire.nhs.uk 

GCSA (Global Clinical Site Accreditation)

As a GCSA “Trusted Global Partner”, we have been fully accredited on all research modules relating to patient engagement, feasibility, study start up and initiation, study management operations and closedown, workforce quality, strategy and governance. We have been independently verified against international standards as a site which is high performing in terms of our processes, efficiency, quality of research we deliver.

Cognizant Shared Investigator Platform

We maintain Organisational Level, Facility Level and Department Level profiles on the SIP platform. Please contact the Research and Innovation department at ResearchAndInnovation@royalberkshire.nhs.uk for support using SIP or if you are asked to create a user profile.

NIHR South Central Regional Research Delivery Network

We meet regularly with the South Central Regional Research Delivery Network's (RRDN) Industry Team to discuss commercial study performance and commercial study opportunities. Each year the RRDN shares over 400 new Commercial opportunities directly with Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

Parexel

As a Parexel “Site Alliance Site”, we are supported by senior staff at Parexel and have access to all appropriate clinical trial opportunities as a priority.