Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust Wins National Award for Research Impact

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust (PHT) has won a prestigious national award for the work it has done to maximise clinical research activity across the Trust. Source: Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust (20 November 2014)
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PORTSMOUTH, U.K. - Nov. 24, 2014 - PRLog -- The HSJ Clinical Research Impact award (http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/hsj-awards-2014-winners-revealed/5076907.article?blocktitle=Awards-news&contentID=9012#.VG92NIusV8E) was presented to the Queen Alexandra Hospital team at the annual HSJ Awards ceremony held on London’s Park Lane last night.

Clinical research is the way that doctors gather evidence about new treatments, in order to improve patient care in the NHS. Most NHS organisations do some level of research, but there is a national drive to increase the number of opportunities for patients to take part in high-quality research studies.

Professor Anoop Chauhan, Director of Research at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “We are delighted to win this highly competitive award which recognises how our research teams are transforming clinical care through research. We thank the judges for recognising our work, and all our patients who have participated in clinical trials in Portsmouth - this is for you and we thank you for inspiring us.”

The award, sponsored by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network, is presented to the NHS organisation that has gone the extra mile to embed clinical research as core business and harness clinical research impacts to improve services and treatments for its patients.

The HSJ citation reads: “The winners demonstrated an ambitious and impressive programme, presenting excellent evidence of a system wide approach to embedding clinical research.”

Judges also said the programme of work the Trust has carried out regarding clinical research was impacting “locally and beyond.”

Jonathan Sheffield, Chief Executive Officer of the NIHR Clinical Research Network, said: “What’s happening in Portsmouth is impressive. The Trust has truly embraced clinical research by introducing a wide variety of initiatives that are both highly replicable and scalable. And what’s really exciting is how they feed the results of research back into their services and treatments so that the impact can be felt by all patients served by the Trust.”

Joining the congratulations was Professor Dame Sally C. Davies, FRS, FMedSci, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Adviser, who presented the award.  She said: “Our vision is that every patient will be offered the chance to take part in a research study as a standard part of their treatment – whether that’s at their GP surgery or hospital. We have yet to achieve this in the NHS as a whole, but Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has demonstrated how, with great leadership and strong team work, great progress can be made in making the vision a reality.”

Aseptika Limited are delighted to add their congratulations to Professor Anoop Chauhan and his research team at PHT for receiving this prestigious and well deserved award.

Commenting on the win, Kevin A. Auton, Ph.D, Managing Director of Aseptika Limited said: “We were immediately drawn to Prof. Chauhan’s high quality research reputation and the fundamental ethos to improve the health and wellbeing of patients in the Portsmouth area. As a consequence we approached Prof. Chauhan to collaborate with us to undertake a clinical trial for self-management physiological and biological tests to predict exacerbations in patients with long-term respiratory conditions (the SENSOR clinical trial (http://www.activ8rlives.com/sensor)), which is currently running at PHT with COPD volunteers, via a pre-procurement contract with NHS England’s Small Business Research Initiative Healthcare (SBRI Healthcare (http://www.sbrihealthcare.co.uk/)) managed by Health Enterprise East (http://www.hee.org.uk/) on behalf of the Eastern Academic Health and Sciences Network (EAHSN (http://www.eahsn.org.uk/)).”

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