Health and Social Care Structures

The major research Boards across Scotland - North (NHS Grampian), East (NHS Tayside), South (NHS Lothian) and West (NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde) - play a leading role in supporting the delivery of research and R&D Directors from these Health Boards form part of the NRS Strategy Board providing regional expertise and an in-depth view of research activity across Scotland. Together with the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) they work to develop common, simplified systems to support both non-commercial and commercial patient-orientated research and support implementation of national processes across all Health Boards in Scotland.Each Board facilitates and supports ethical and safe medical research for both the academic and pharmaceutical communities. Services are provided to:

Local delivery, development and governance of clinical research is achieved through regional nodes working within NHS Boards to provide support across Scotland. The West Node (which includes NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS National Waiting Times, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Ayrshire & Arran and NHS Dumfries and Galloway) is managed by the R&D office in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and leads on the IT infrastructure for NRS by hosting the Scottish Research management Database (SReDa) and the National Databases Coordinator.