Research at HCT

Research at Hertfordshire Community Trust is co-ordinated across our services by the research office. We work with researchers and sponsors of research to make sure our community can participate in well regulated, clinically useful, and ethically scrutinised research projects.

We support the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and other research activity involving our staff, our patients and the wider care settings such as schools and care homes.

The goal of this research is to improve the services delivered in the community and across the NHS.

National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)

The NIHR is funded by the Department of Health and Social Care to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research. Working in partnership with the NHS, universities, local government, other research funders, patients and the public - they fund, enable and deliver world-leading health and social care research that improves people's health and wellbeing.

The NIHR has 12 Regional Research Delivery Networks (RRDNs) that support health and social care research across the country. During 2023/2024 1,045,282 people in England took part in research supported by the NIHR.

At HCT we are part of the East of England Regional Research Delivery network which supports us with the delivery of research within HCT.

  • Find out more about NIHR here.
  • Find out more about East or England Regional Research delivery Network here.

Contact the research office

The Research Office sits within Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust’s Quality directorate. It is the first point of contact for:

  • Clinical Research Networks
  • National Institute for Health Research
  • Sponsors of research
  • Researchers seeking to work in the trust
  • Patient groups wanting more information on research
  • Trust staff involved in research
  • Regulatory and administrative work on clinical trials
  • Local promotion of specific trials and research in general

Research Lead

Email Anne Lim

Clinical Research Nurse

Email Diane Hammond

Clinical Research Nurse

Email Janet Cotta

Clinical Research Nurse - Agile Workforce

Email Gemma Nash

Address

If you need to write to us, our postal address is:

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Research Office
Howard Court 
14 Tewin Road 
Welwyn Garden City 
AL7 1BW

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