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2012 MHRN National Scientific Meeting
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Our annual three-day Scientific Meeting takes place in Birmingham on 25, 26 and 27 April 2012.
This Scientific Meeting gives researchers and mental health professionals the chance to meet together and find out about some of the pioneering studies we support. This is the only multidisciplinary meeting about mental health research in England. For more information, please visit the events page or view the event flyer here. Please view the outline programme here, a full programme for the event will be published shortly.
We are inviting abstracts for posters about studies in set-up, on-going studies or completed studies. Posters will be displayed in Birmingham Town Hall on Thursday 26 April until Friday 27 April lunchtime. If you would like to submit an abstract, please complete the poster submission form by Thursday 10 February 2012.
Bookings for the National Scientific Meeting are now open, book you place here.
FAST-R – a new, free, confidential service for researchers in England
The FAST-R service gives researchers fast and easy access to specially trained people with experience of mental health problems who can advise on any potential recruitment barriers to your project and make sure information for potential participants (such as patient information sheets and consent forms) is clear and easily understood. You can access the new FAST-R service via this website.
Mental Health Trust Wins HSJ Research Culture Award
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys (TESV) NHS Foundation Trust won the Health Service Journal Research Culture Award, presented on 15 November, in recognition of its work to put clinical research at the centre of mental health services.
In its winning entry, TESV demonstrated how it has expanded its clinical research activity from just three studies two years ago, to thirty large-scale studies today. Now a growing group of clinicians are involved in research, and more than 400 patients are volunteering to take part in a wide range of carefully-monitored research activities, covering areas such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), addictions and forensic mental health.
For more information, please visit the Clinical Research Network website.
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